Chilean Ski Resorts Get 2021 Ski Season Underway After a mostly non-existent 2020 ski season, several ski resorts in Chile have opened for the 2021 ski season. El Colorado, Valle Nevado, Corralco, La Parva and Nevados de Chillán are among those open. These late-June/ early-July openings are a bit later than normal, however, locals are stoked to be back on snow. Currently, conditions are mainly machine groomed trails […] Conditions Report Nic Stathos | July 8, 2021 0 Comments
Trip Report: Santa Teresa, Farellones, Chile https://www.instagram.com/p/CEiI1muDuu9/ Report from Tuesday 24th August Short but tight, that was the way our trip to Santa Teresa went with my touring buddy Gabriel Lobos. Farellones continue to host good snow on the southern slopes and the occasional snowfall keeps visiting the Central Andes. Chile remains in quarantine and with a curfew throughout the country, however, the Andes are always […] Trip Report Sebastian Opazo | September 2, 2020 0 Comments
El Colorado and La Parva In Chile Prepare For Opening This Week The waiting has come to an end as El Colorado and La Parva in Chile prepare for their opening this week. About two months have passed since the first snowfalls and the Ski Centers considered the season lost due to the coronavirus. Today in August the reality is different. Related: 3 More Argentinian Ski Resorts Open for Winter 2020 \ Cerro […] Industry News Sebastian Opazo | August 17, 2020 0 Comments
Hometown Mountain Shoutout: El Colorado, Farellones, Chile In the corner of the world, there is a country that was born from the wide Pacific Ocean, it walks through desert and forests and finally rises on the high peaks of the Andes mountains. Chile is a long ski of 2,672-miles (4,300km) located in the South East of South America and it’s considered one the best places to do […] Industry News Sebastian Opazo | June 19, 2020 0 Comments
El Colorado Resort, Chile to CLOSE This Week Due to Lack of Snow For the second consecutive season, Chilean resort El Colorado has announced that they will be closing early due to weather conditions. The lifts will stop turning on September 8th. Historically, Chilean resorts predict opening right through to October, but it is increasingly becoming the norm that they don’t even make it through mid-September. Closing days at El Colorado the previous 5-years […] Weather WeatherBrains | September 2, 2019 0 Comments
How-To: Do South America Ski Trip on a Budget The best part about the end of North American ski season is the start of South American winter. The ideal year for any skier is splitting time between hemispheres to get as much snow as possible. SnowBrains crew has been in the Argentinian Patagonia for a while now giving constant updates of the good ski conditions and inciting jealousy along […] Industry News Joseph Phillips | August 29, 2019 0 Comments
Valle Nevado, Chile Snow Update: No New Snow in 2 Weeks This means either you ski the most recently groomed run possible, or go looking for bits of off piste like lower slopes that aren’t too hacked up and get warm enough to soften, or those snaking drift lines at higher altitudes where the wind packs the snow smooth and chalky. I skied Valle Nevado from La Parva yesterday and had a fun day in spite of a lack of grooming (which makes a big difference). While I try to avoid bashing ski areas, some constructive criticism is needed. VN has […] Conditions Report Guest Author | August 28, 2015 1 Comment
El Colorado, Chile Conditions Report: It Just Keeps Snowing… Our day in El Colorado last thursday was a windless bright sunny day with cumulus clouds billowing below. 5-10 cm had fallen at the end of Wednesday, not really covering the prior days tracks, but providing an icing to the cake, and making the whole mountain skiable. From the top of Cono Este (which could be the best biggest bang for your buck lift if it weren’t an ancient t-bar), the […] Conditions Report Guest Author | August 17, 2015 1 Comment
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