TOP SNOWFALL

tylerjames · #1 07-03-2008, 05:08 PM

okay, so Las Lenas, Valle Navado, Portillo even places as far south as Cerro Castor are all off to a good start. Bariloche on the other hand is dead in the water at the moment the entire mountain is closed except for students on their school holiday trips and basic lessons.
looking at the webcam this morning the mountain looked bare, i thought it must have been an old cam shot, so i went up to check it out and get my skis waxed up for this coming weekend.
what i saw was worse than i thought, it was 50 degrees in Bariloche today and maybe 40 35 at best at the base. the entire lower section of the mountain is completely bare, its still grass. i droped my skis off and took a few pictures.

the photos are more than depressing considering last year at this time Catedral had a good base and powder could be easily found.

?!?la nivie?!?

This is as good as it gets so far

pray for snow

tief schnee · #2 07-03-2008, 05:49 PM

How late in the season is it? Is that like a crappy Thanksgiving or a crappy New Years in NA?

tylerjames · #3 07-03-2008, 05:54 PM

i'd say its December. they were scheduled to open on june 12th, they kept pushing it back and back and this is where they are at now.

enlosandes · #4 07-03-2008, 06:04 PM

The mountain did open for about 4 days, then it warmed up and rained to the top. Safe to say, mother n needs to bring it pronto, por favor.

Mike Pow · #5 07-03-2008, 10:41 PM

Shit. Looks like Perisher (Oz) last week. But with better looking women.

jcolingham · #6 07-04-2008, 09:04 AM

Tyler, where are you? there is a gob of us at Tangoinn downtown on Salta. we were going to go hit Carbon today but the rain pretty much dashed our dreams. It is a sad f·n sight if you ask me. I spent 2 weeks around las leñas and hit marte on the golden 30+ day with Mercurio, Jupitor, and Marte. We will be at the flamenco show tonight and probably to Wilinicky. We are also going to be cooking some steak and dogs for ID4 today if you want to join us on Salta at Tangoinn.

splat · #7 07-04-2008, 10:22 AM

When I hit BA last September, I called a bud in Bariloche to check weather and he said it was raining to the top.
That made grabbing a flight to Ushuaia a no-brainer

enlosandes · #8 07-04-2008, 11:01 AM

Splat, I thought you would post about how you saw a picture of the Bro ski and got a chubber from across the world.

_Aaron_ · #9 07-04-2008, 02:21 PM

Yikes that looks like PA

splat · #10 07-04-2008, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by enlosandes

Splat, I thought you would post about how you saw a picture of the Bro ski and got a chubber from across the world.

That's a given, mang!
The cats down in Cerro Castor know the Bros.

enlosandes · #11 07-05-2008, 09:19 AM

Rained hard last night, and appears to have done so all the way to the top of the mountain. ¡Ay caramba!

tlhahaha · #12 07-05-2008, 02:56 PM

I like the rain

splat · #13 07-05-2008, 03:40 PM

Head south, meng!

wolfelot · #14 07-05-2008, 09:10 PM

Dang. Looks worse than new england the first week of november in most years.

jcolingham · #15 07-06-2008, 09:05 AM

heading up to the mountain right now. ill be back with pics tonight

tylerjames · #16 07-06-2008, 09:26 AM

snow-forecast said we are going to get more than a foot tonight through monday night. hopefully it will happen and they can at least open the top of the mountain.

splat · #17 07-06-2008, 10:32 AM

Dyin to see them Bros on the snows, Tyler.

jcolingham · #18 07-06-2008, 02:12 PM

I feel it. it was frigid up when we were hiking the mountain today. I would be down for some snow :-) maggot fest? I will upload some shots of the negative acceleration up there after a big lunch. We still had a good time hiking and watching the high schoolers run around in their ugly suits and carrying skis my parents rode before I was born.

Cerro Catedral, please open with snow. Thanks!

tylerjames · #19 07-06-2008, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by splat

Dyin to see them Bros on the snows, Tyler.

splat, i can't wait to get them on the snow, every day it gets harder to have them sitting in my apartment and not be skiing. the day will come though, bariloche always gets its share.

jcolingham · #20 07-06-2008, 06:49 PM

here they are
http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/phot...25709_7475.jpg

http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/phot...25712_8486.jpg

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/phot...25713_8827.jpg

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/phot...025715_595.jpg

tylerjames · #21 07-06-2008, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jcolingham

here they are

hopefully tonight and tomorrow will bring some whitter photos.

jcolingham · #22 07-07-2008, 08:42 AM

Thanks tyler. I hope so as well. Last night did nothing. I am looking at hitting up Llao LLao and getting a siesta in before going out tonight with some girls from Holland. A tear for the lack of snow. Ullr couldn´t be crueler!

enlosandes · #23 07-07-2008, 08:57 AM

Llao Llao is pretty nice this time of year. Better call ahead and tell them your coming.

tylerjames · #24 07-07-2008, 12:50 PM

this little bastard of an icon just showed up on catedral's website a few hrs late considering its been storming since about 12 but at least its snowing!

jcolingham · #25 07-07-2008, 12:52 PM

They didn´t know what hit them. It was beautiful but sprinkling rain. I met some fun Columbians who just got to town. I will be at Wilkenny around 2am. I will wear a baby blue T with sunglasses on the front. Come dance, come cry, come drink!