Patagonia Backcountry Report: Immaculately Dry Late September Powder In A Ravishing Chute Report from September 18, 2023 Monday morning was clear and cold. This time of year here is usually hot and melty… Not this year. This year all of September has been cold and stormy. Mikey came out with us on this day, which was rad. We climbed up to a chute we call “Scary Chute.” Scary Chute was icy at […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 20, 2023 0 Comments
Patagonia Backcountry Report: This Place Is Getting Too Filled In With Snow | Mini-Spines & High Tower Chutes Are Buried Report from September 12, 2023 Tuesday was the last sunny day of the week most likely. A large, wet, warm, Tahiti Express storm is clobbering us right now. Lotza rain, wind, and hopefully in the end – snow. Tuesday held dense, wind-pressed, and sun-kissed snow. There were quite a few people in the zone this day so I laid back […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 14, 2023 0 Comments
Cerro Catedral, Valle Nevado, Portillo, and Other Patagonian Ski Areas Extend Season After Heavy September Snowfall You just can’t give up on the season in South America. After a rough start with sub-average snow conditions for roughly half of the ski season in the Andes Mountains, it started snowing again—hard. Las Leñas Resort in Argentina reported a 10-foot+ storm total last week, with over 3 feet of snow falling in 24 hours. Cerro Catedral in San […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | September 14, 2023 0 Comments
Patagonia Backcountry Report: Dropping The “Ridgewalker” Pillows & Hucking “The Grifter” Cliff in Deep Powder Snow Report from September 11, 2023 On Monday, we sauntered out into the backcountry for the afternoon. It was Stormin’ Norman all morning then the clouds started to break up as per forecast. The first thing we did when we got up high was dig a pit in a familiar zone. The results were a bit touchy. We know this zone […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 13, 2023 0 Comments
Bariloche, Argentina Report: Are Spread Eagles in Tight Trees A Good Idea? Report from September 11, 2023 On Sunday, the snow in Bariloche, Argentina was hot, crusty, and bad. Everywhere. In my ultra-dramatic human standard of being, I wrote the rest of the season off as hot, funky, and weird. A warm, rainy storm was rolling in that day and the forecast was hot, wet garbage. That night, I kept my eye […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 13, 2023 0 Comments
Bariloche, Argentina Report: Deranged Winds & Water Skiing Report from September 10, 2023 at Cerro Catedral, Argentina The weather the past week has been challenging in Patagonia… Every single day has had sun and cloud, wind and weird. It’s been very tough to predict what is gonna happen out there and when to be where. Yesterday was a case in point. We saw that there might be good […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 10, 2023 0 Comments
Patagonia Backcountry Report: Mini-Mandatory Air in an Exciting New Chute Report from September 3, 2023 Yesterday, we hauled our carcasses into the backcountry for one last sunny day. The previous day (Saturday) held the best snow we’d ever skied in South America… On this day we went for the Sun Chutes which are north-facing but we were confident that due to the cold conditions, they’d still hold soft snow. We […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 6, 2023 0 Comments
Patagonia Backcountry Report: Alaska? Nope… Spines, Chutes, & Fingers in Epic Patagonian Snow Report from September 2, 2023 Yesterday, we got out there early and found rained-on snow and some high-density, delicious cream cheese in the trees on a blustery, cloudy day. Today it went full blue. We expected the typical, wind-pressed, dense, “carton” (cardboard) as they call it here. As we climbed up we started noticing sparkling snow (preserved stellar dendrite – […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 4, 2023 0 Comments
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