Ski Portillo, Chile, Closing Day 2024, Report: Is it 2025 Yet? Report from September 21-22, 2024 Ski Portillo is just over two hours from the Santiago Airport. Although bus, private driver, and helicopter transfers are available, we opted for a rental car. The drive through the foothills was full of vineyards, which made for a great halfway stop. Once in the valley, traffic started to slow behind trucks traveling through the […] Conditions Report Brett Ploss | September 24, 2024 1 Comment
Pulseline Adventure Offers Spectacular Heli-Skiing And Ski-Touring Trips in Chile Join Pulseline Adventure on these spectacular trips in Chile this September. Pulseline offers a heli-skiing or a ski touring trip during the 2024 Southern Hemisphere winter. Both offerings promise to provide epic experiences in what could be the best season of the century. The Chilean Andes boast vast mountainous terrain and a deep, coastal snowpack. Chile’s resorts opened in July […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 18, 2024 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
Trip Report: La Parva, Chile – Visiting the Neighbor Despite all the years of skiing a few feet away, I had not been given the opportunity to meet my neighbor, La Parva. Chile is in quarantine, even so, certain communes of the Capital are allowed mobility and the practice of sports with their corresponding measures. Among these communes is Lo Barnechea, which the mountain town Farellones belongs to. The […] Trip Report Sebastian Opazo | August 10, 2020 0 Comments
Chile Between Quarantine and Opening: Ski Resorts Don’t Lose Faith Chile has been with lockdown measures for around 145 days and has been in a “state of emergency” since March 19th of this year. The first case of the coronavirus disease pandemic in Chile was confirmed on March 3. The virus was found in a man in Talca who arrived from a flight from Singapore. Since then, the outbreak has […] Industry News Sebastian Opazo | July 28, 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
How To Get From Santiago, Chile to Bariloche, Argentina: ***originally written in August 2016 You’ve arrived at the Santiago de Chile airport (SCL) for your ski/snowboard trip to Bariloche, Argentina. Now what? This is a guide to help you through every single step from leaving the airport to arriving in Bariloche, Argentina.  This article was updated as of August 7th, 2016 when I did this exact journey. I’ve also […] Miles Clark | July 30, 2018 6 Comments