Nevados de Chillán Ski Center, Chile, Closes Ahead of Incoming Snowstorm Due to Hazardous Conditions Nevados de Chillán ski center in Chile announced the temporary closure of its ski center on Wednesday due to a severe weather alert issued by the Chilean Meteorological Directorate and SENAPRED. The region is bracing for the arrival of a powerful atmospheric river, classified between categories 3 and 4, that could dump up to seven feet of snow on South […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 30, 2025 0 Comments
Unexpected Inbounds Avalanche Triggered at Chilean Ski Area Next to Chairlift At approximately 12:25 p.m. today, ski patrollers at Nevados de Chillan were notified of an avalanche that occurred within the perimeter of the ski area. They ran out the door of their station, clipped into their skis with urgency, and beelined to the debris pile. When they arrived at the slide path that had come to a halt on top […] Avalanche Martin Kuprianowicz | August 25, 2023 0 Comments
The Top 5 Ski Resorts in South America: South America is huge and the Andes mountain range is the longest mountain range in the world with the tallest mountain on Earth outside the Himalayas. The good skiing in the Andes is mostly in the south and can be phenomenal. On the right year, it can be non-stop snowstorms in the south and incredibly long, smooth descents in the north. South America is raw, rad, and wild. If the snow isn’t just right, the culture most certainly is. Seven nights a week there is a raging party waiting for you at Wilkenny, Dusk, or any of the other of the many night clubs in town. Combine these clubs with how good looking Argentines are and […] SnowBrains | April 8, 2022 23 Comments
Could Nevados De Chillán, Chile Open Soon? An Interview With the CEO Could Nevados de Chillán soon be open to skiers and riders? The city remains in quarantine and with a curfew, which makes the panorama difficult for powlovers in the Ñuble Region. Currently, the Ski Resort is closed and is guarded by Socorro Andino and the police. Related: Ski Corralco, Chile Opens on Saturday for the 2020 Season Last Wednesday, NevaSport Chile […] Industry News Sebastian Opazo | September 2, 2020 0 Comments
Rider Triggers In Bounds Avalanche In Chile | Patrol Unaware Rider Made It Out It appears that there was a significant in-bounds avalanche at Nevados de Chillan, Chile this last Saturday, August 26, 2017. Nevados de Chillan has been seeing incredible amounts of snow this season including in the days leading up to this avalanche. Ski Patrol and by standers immediately started a probe search for bodies. The rider who set off the avalanche […] Industry News LadyBrains | August 29, 2017 1 Comment
Ski and Ride “The Mt. Baker” of Chile With evo [this article is sponsored by evo.com] You know what it’s like. The season is over, and while we all love summer, our snow addiction never really goes away. And come July, we start to hear about the onset of winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Places like Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and Australia. As the days go by, we glance more […] D’Arcy McLeish | April 4, 2017 0 Comments
Nevados de Chillan, Chile Will REOPEN This Weekend After Large Snowfall This Week Good news coming out of Chile, today. Nevados de Chillan ski resort in Chile will reopen for 3 days this weekend after receiving a large snowfall this week. Nevados de Chillan closed on September 4th due to a lack of snow after only 7 weeks of operation. They were open from July 16th until September 4th this season. Nevados de Chillan will reopen […] SnowBrains | September 16, 2016 0 Comments
Nevados de Chillan, Chile CLOSED for Season Today Due to Lack of Snow Sad news coming out of Chile, today. Nevados de Chillan ski resort in Chile closed for the season today due to a lack of snow. [iframe id=”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmikedouglas%2Fvideos%2F10153825058229639%2F&show_text=0&width=400″] video of the Chillan volcano erupting on August 1st 2016. We refer to Nevados de Chillan as the Mt. Baker of the southern hemisphere. This place usually gets buried in snow. Not this […] SnowBrains | September 4, 2016 2 Comments
Skier Dies in Avalanche in Chile Today After Heavy Snowfall The Cronica Chillan newpaper is reporting that a 23-year old Viña del Mar, Chile named Luciano Cueneo Olhaberry died today from injuries suffered in an avalanche in the backcountry near the Nevados de Chillan ski resort in Chile. Luciano was skiing out of bounds with a foreigner who was reportedly also caught in the avalanche but escaped uninjured and was able to notify rescuers. Ski patrollers were able to locate the buried skier within 50 minutes. Luciano was not carry an avalanche transceiver, nor probe, nor shovel. Avalanche SnowBrains | August 3, 2015 3 Comments
Nevados de Chillan, Chile Conditions Report: The Deep… Nevados de Chillan is the Mt. Baker of the Southern Hemisphere. It’s snow a lot here and it comes in big, deep dumps. Last weekend Chillan got 35″ of new snow up top with 100% of its terrain and chairlifts open. The forecast looks good for more snowfall this week with 23″ of snow in the forecast the next few days. It’s game on at Nevados de Chillan, Chile. Nevados de Chillan is the Mt. Baker of the Southern Hemisphere. It’s snow a lot here and it comes in big, deep dumps. Last weekend Chillan got 35″ of new snow up top with 100% of […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | July 16, 2015 0 Comments
Didn’t Get Enough Pow This Winter? Shred Nevados de Chillan This Summer: For many of us out West, winter wasn’t exactly what we had hoped for. We’re being left wanting more. Luckily, there’s the Southern Hemisphere winter. In the Southern Hemisphere, the place that gets the most snow is Nevados de Chillan ski resort in Las Trancas Chile. It’s the Mt. Baker of the Southern Hemisphere and it delivers. Evo knows that Nevados de Chillan delivers and they’ll be taking skiers and riders there this summer. Learn more about evo’s 2015 Chile Trip here: evo 2015 Chile Trip […] Sponsored | April 1, 2015 1 Comment
2014 South America Recap: Nevados de Chillan and Las Leñas I spent two months skiing in South America this summer, and it was fun! My trip took me to Nevados de Chillan for two weeks, Las Leñas for a month, and the Cordon del Plata for a week. I’ve been coming down here for nine years now, which makes me feel kind of old, but also very fortunate. The majority of these photos were taken by Moritz Morlok. Thanks Boyscout! I arrived in Santiago in the middle of August. Typically I head straight to Las Leñas, but things were looking a bit dry and warm there, so I decided to go south to Nevados de Chillan instead. I’ve been hearing good things about Nevados in recent years, and it seems to be the […] Backcountry Lee Lyon | October 19, 2014 3 Comments
Nevados de Chillan, Chile 2014 Highlight Video with Ingrid Backstrom & Julian Carr Nevados de Chillan is a small ski area on a big volcano in southern Chile. It’s the Mt. Baker of the Southern Hemisphere. It snows a lot here, always. This year was a low snow year most places in South America, but Chillan still got theirs. Ingrid Backstrom, Julian Carr, and Todd Ligare […] SnowBrains | October 2, 2014 3 Comments
Nevados de Chillan Conditions Report: Deep Snow, Big Wind After a few days of poor conditions around the 3 Valley resorts we decided to pull the plug and grab a last minute flight down to Nevados de Chillan to try to hook up with the Ingrid Backstrom Women’s Camp and hit the forecasted storm. We could not have timed it better. The night drive up was an adventure with about a foot of snow on the […] Conditions Report Guest Author | August 8, 2014 1 Comment
Detailed Chile Conditions Reports July 31st – August 14th via CASA Tours | Arpa, Chillan, La Parva, Valle Nevado words & photos by Gomez & CASA Tours CASA Tours Andes Explorer Trip Report: July 31 – August 2: Our first group of the South American winter arrived on July 31st, 2013. We headed up to the Tres Valles region and rallied around the groomers of La Parva & Valle Nevado. Off-piste was coral reef conditions and still […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | August 17, 2013 3 Comments
Big Snow Coming to Bariloche, Argentina & Nevados de Chillan, Chile | Up to 33” Forecasted It’s been a mostly dry for the past month in Bariloche, Argentina. All anyone can talk about is the lack of snow. Conditions have been springlike and fun, but the mountain needs snow, badly. The past few days there has been snow in the forecast for this coming weekend. Now, all anyone can talk about in Bariloche is the coming […] Weather Miles Clark | August 1, 2013 3 Comments
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