Does anyone know why Chillan is so incompetently operated? Yes I know most of the season sucked, but the smaller and even more remote Corralco and Antillanca are still running with the new snow.
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15 more areas added in the past year:
262 SNØ Oslo, Norway
263 Austdal Glacier, Norway
264 Valloire-Valmeinier, France
265 Sansicario, Italy
266 Sestriere, Italy
267 Sauze d'Oulx, Italy...

I went to La Grave in 2008 with Extremely Canadian: 6 clients, two EC guides and 2 local guides., one of whom was Joe Vallone. He is referenced in post #21 above and I recommend him highly.
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In pursuit of a 12 month season, they let me do that on August 7, 2005.
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=1136

When I asked again in 2011 they said no. So I earned the...

June 7 in 1998 and I think similar in 1983.

I archived my ancient Southland Ski Server TRs.
A true powder morning May 14, 1998: https://bestsnow.net/TRsFTO/19980514baldytc.HTML
I tried to repeat...

June 7 in 1998 and I think similar in 1983.

I archived my ancient Southland Ski Server TRs.
A true powder morning May 14, 1998: https://bestsnow.net/TRsFTO/19980514baldytc.HTML
I tried to repeat...

Yes, I agree that exotic locations may not have reliable snow. Snow was good by North American standards on only one of my 4 ski trips to New Zealand and my Chile ski trip was "warm temps, bluebird...

Adamantium heard Baldy's road was closed for a while Friday too. I got up there at 7:35 so beat whatever the problem was. I saw nothing unusual on the way out at 4:30 either. In fact there were snow...

Those are very impressive pictures. I've had one trip to southern Africa with some safari time but it was in 2002 pre digital camera with only the Zimbabwe part posted online so far:...

I was on the 2011 Ice Axe Antarctic trip, so this is the continent I haven't skied.

While a cool experience, I'll have to say this report is a deterrent. Did you know before you arrived in...

We were there last Dec. 7-9:
https://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/threads/cochamo-valley-hikes-chile-dec-7-8-2021.14457/...

I'm not a weather forecaster. I collect snowfall data and also by experience observe ski conditions and often make recommendations based upon altitude/exposure as much as by snowfall. I recommend...

http://bestsnow.net/bionet.htm was what Leslie Anthony wrote about me for the 1995 Powder magazine cover story. At that point I had skied 62 areas, all in the western US except 4 days in New...

Here's my list as organized on an Excel summary page. First number is order in which I first skied an area, second number is number of days skied there. Of the 261 locations, 220 are lift served,...

Been there and done that twice in 2020:
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/4839256/ 3,260 miles, SoCal to Florida
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/5006604/ 5,009 miles, return trip via...

Some of us addicts will find a way to get to the eclipse. This is the way we are doing it: https://www.astro-trails.com/patagonia-itineraries-dec-2020

Argentina does not open to general tourism...

I thought it was worth inquiring if I could get any more copies of my October 1995 cover story.
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Accordingly I drove Monday to the Carlsbad office around 12:30PM and the building manager...

Yes, but will foreigners be allowed to enter Chile by then?

Yes, but will foreigners be allowed into Chile to do that?

The last above average season for Portillo/Valle Nevado/Las Lenas was 2009. The last big season was 2005. I have June-Sept snowfall for Las Lenas through 2015, my last visit there. 2010-2015...

Much of which is inaccurate.

For powder, there is no such animal. Broad trends over decades smooth out, but in any given year snowfall will be concentrated in a relatively small percentage of...

Impressive reports by spindrift, especially that amazing "grand tour." I think spindrift may have the right idea, scheduling in April for more daylight/better visibility. Our timing was...

It seems to me that touring groups should be willing to exercise the option of a once a day heli drop into a sector with better snow/weather, then skin/ski laps at higher elevation before descending...

We got out half an hour later on Friday March 27 and skied the mountains closest to the lodge. It was slightly colder, -10C on top with more wind than Thursday. The lower terrain looks sketchy this...

My apologies about pictures. I took a dinner break when some didn't load properly. I loaded the rest; most worked but a few did not. After careful inspection I finally found my typos and corrected...

After 10 days of Iceland weather I was not that optimistic about our time with Arctic Heliskiing March 25-28. There had been a deluge of overnight rain that washed away much of the snow in Myvatn...

I started skiing at age 26. Season averages below:

The early seasons while I was single: 30.6, days, 544K vertical, 5% powder, cost per season unknown, maybe $2-3K?

Family years: 23.6 days,...

Read the reports above. You need to head south to Chillan.

It's so bad Portillo is giving prospective 2014 guests the option to refund their deposits or raincheck their reservations into a...

Big Bear is a better bet for that, though the quality of Baldy's grooming improved in 2010 with purchase of new equipment. However the investor who made those purchases is no longer involved with...

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That's about right. I've lived my whole ski career in SoCal since 1976 and have lots of stats regarding Baldy's and SoCal skiing reliability.
http://50.87.144.177/~bestsnow/scalhist.htm...

I just stumbled across this thread.
1) A2thaK or anyone else can order the raw snowfall data for personal use here: http://50.87.144.177/~bestsnow/advtsnet.htm
2) neckdeep stated in 2009 that of...

I've occasionally critiqued MRA, but nearly ANYTHING would be an improvement over current management at Las Lenas. This is perhaps the area enlosandes knows best, so I say go for it!

I will be there. Look forward to seeing him again after the Ice Axe Antarctic trip last November.

Oherwise known as TISA: This Is South America

I have 38 annual snowfall totals for Portillo:
Average is 254 inches
5 seasons under 90 inches, min was 44 in 1998
4 seasons over 450 inches, max...

Patrick and I have had a few of these car vs. bus debates. I have envisioned the Hugh Conway itinerary but if you want to get in an appropriate amount of skiing you need at least a month to do that....

I'd be curious how you might expect that to happen. I had an e-mail correpondence with Jeff Eckland, who was Las Lenas director of mountain operations in 2009 and formerly worked at Kirkwood.
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Thursday March 8
Today it got warmer, with sun most of the morning. Panoramic views across the valley to the Purcells and Bugaboos.
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This was a good test for snow conditions...

Wednesday March 7
Weather was high overcast all day so the snow settled marginally more compared to Tuesday. but we still had to watch out for tree wells.
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Ski conditions remained...

At the NASJA meeting in January at Red/Whitewater we had the opportunity to meet with a few of the snowcat/heli operators on our last night in Nelson. I was invited along with Sun Valley photographer...

I also wrote a feature article on Las Lenas: http://www.firsttracksonline.com/2006/07/17/las-lenas-a-ski-resort-guide/

Las Lenas and the Santiago areas are similar in weather/snowfall, ~250 inches...

I tried to respond to Hutash's query on Dec. 4, but the post was moderated, still never put up, and no reason provided why by e-mail. :(



So I'll try again more briefly. Lizardqueen and I were...

StraightChuter may remember being in the library when the rogue wave hit the ship ~11AM on November 19 in the Drake passage. I was sitting at a table using my computer. The table swung out into the...

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StraightChuter has it right. When you consider that Doug Stoup must get approvals from the Antarctic Treaty Organization for potential ski sites and bring 18 guides...

http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9716

I have skied in NZ 4 seasons. I strongly recommend renting a car. They rent some very used cars at reasonable prices. Weather is highly variable and there are lots of interesting places to see. ...

On my website http://bestsnow.net I try to standardize to a November-April basis. I count May only if an area stays open. October I occasionally count if it advances an area;s opening date. On the...

I demoed that boot last week and would like to buy it. $320 price is fine with me. I live in California but will be in SLC Thursday night 4/28 through Sunday night May 1. I don't see a PM facility...

I am interested in these boots if still available. I will be in Salt Lake March 30 - April 1, so easy to pay and pick up then.