Las Lenas, Argentina Video Report: Proof That Wet Snow is Better Than Dry Snow Las Lenas generally has dry snow and is a rocky, sharky, ski destroying land. Last week, they got 5 feet of wet snow. The wet snow covered rocks, created pillows and filled things in like never before. People who love dry snow don’t understand that wet snow can make magic happen. If you know Las Lenas, you’ll be shocked by this video. Those rocks Adria is doing 360s off are usually bare, […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | September 9, 2014 1 Comment
Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: Mini-Powder-Days Galore Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina has been getting small, daily storms for the past week. Just a few inches per day or so, but it’s been enough to give each day a mini refresh. The real key to having fun at a ski resort is being able to ski off-piste terrain hard. If you can charge and make speed check turns anywhere you like, you’re gonna have a blast. Today was that way. Yesterday was that way. The day before yesterday was like that. It’s been a fun week. Today, we saw the biggest snowfall […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | September 3, 2014 4 Comments
VIDEO: Big Mountain Mandatory Air in Las Lenas, Argentina Año tras año buscando nuevas lineas en esta montaña y intentando esquiar de la mejor manera que puedo. Cerro Negro hace 3600m y tiene mas de 50º de inclinacion en algunas partes. Es una bajada donde no vale caer porque para salir tienes que saltar un cliff bastante largo.” TRANSLATION: “Year after year we’re looking for new lines on this mountain and we try to ski it in the best way we can. Cerro Negro is 3,600m (11,811ft) tall […] Guest Author | September 3, 2014 0 Comments
Las Lenas, Argentina Conditions Report: Torrecillas in Champagne Powder The 25th of august a storm hit Valle de Las Leñas leaving almost nothing of snow on the slopes. The next morning we started early, the weather conditions looked perfect for hiking and we decided to go for Cerro Torrecillas. Tristan Sanchez, Lorenzo Medioli and me formed the team. We approached on skins up to Cerro Negro bottom, continued the trail hiking on boot deep snow up to the summit […] Conditions Report Guest Author | September 1, 2014 0 Comments
Las Lenas, Argentina to CLOSE September 8th… Las Lenas will close this year on September 8th, 6 weeks earlier than their normal closing date of mid-October. Last year, 2013, Las Lenas closed 4 weeks early on September 14th. Las Lenas hasn’t truly had a good season since 2008. This is sad because Las Lenas has some of the best terrain in the Southern Hemisphere. Lenas got some big snow in June before opening and that was about it. Since those June snowfalls there have been a couple decent storms but nothing big and hearty. Below is every report we have from Las Lenas in […] SnowBrains | August 29, 2014 2 Comments
Las Lenas, Argentina Conditions Report: Good Up High, Bad Down Low | The End Is Near… Looks like the season might be coming to an end soon. Rumors have spread that the 8th of September has been set as the closing date. Last week was warm and we enjoyed spring skiing conditions. The storm that was supposed to hit Las Leñas last weekend with about a half a meter of snow was a disappointment. It started to snow a little bit on Saturday around noon and continued on and off until Sunday. But it didn’t really accumulate in the valley, but up high and in Valle Hermoso it snowed quit a lot. On Sunday pretty much everything was closed due to high winds […] Conditions Report Eike Poeppelmeier | August 27, 2014 2 Comments
Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: Mini Powder Day Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina got about 3-4 inches of snow last night. It wasn’t quite enough to bury the hard layer underneath, but it did make things fun. You could ski the whole mountain again and the shatter underneath quieted down every run as the sun softened things up throughout the day. The Nubes chair was the call today in the bright sunshine. We’ve had about a week of funky weather, so it was great to just have a pure […] SnowBrains | August 25, 2014 1 Comment
Bariloche, Argentina Conditions Report: Big Mountain Park Skiing Catedral ski resort in Bariloche, Argentina has a chairlift called Nubes. It’s a high speed quad that rises 2,000-feet to the top of the mountain. It accesses steep, jagged terrain, cliff hucks, cruisy groomers, wide open bowls, natural halfpipes, and the terrain park. Nubes would be a solid chair anywhere. Nubes is the key to days like today. Like Tahoe, Bariloche experiences mid-winter springtimes. If you embrace them, they’re […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | August 21, 2014 0 Comments
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