Patagonian Summer - Long Lines POV

**Gopher** · 09-14-2010, 07:49 AM

Hey Guys,

The Patagonian winter has finally come to a close here in Bariloche. The beginning of September brought us about 3 meters of snow in a week. It was kinda insane. No, it was really insane. I´ve never seen it snow anywhere as hard as I´ve seen it snow here. Snowflakes the size of golf balls falling at rates of many inches per hour for days. Mid storm avalanches that vaporized one refugio and left debris piles 10+ meters high in places. Screaming winds the plastered snow to the Lenga forests and their dripping mosses in ways and angles that I still don´t understand.

We harvested all that we could from the big snows and got some pretty vicious perma-smiles in the process. Not long after the storms stopped, the heat came and like that, it switched from full-on nuclear winter to warm easy going springtime. As soon as that pollen laden spring air hit my nostrils, I twitched and my brain automatically switched to summer mode. I am currently undergoing my quest to salvage the remnants of the California summer. I really need to surf. I´m dying to hit my favorite cliff diving spots in the foothills. And yes, there better still be some girls in bikinis at the lake!

Here is a short pov video that shows two of the longer backcountry lines that we´ve been skiing (before the storms). The first I call ´Little AK´ off the Zebra Chutes and the second is Tage Chute´s ´Staff Party´. After those two lines is just some fun pow skiing after the big storms.

[ame="http://vimeo.com/14939491"]Patagonia Summer - Crush A Lot on Vimeo[/ame]

**Sierra Cement** · 09-14-2010, 08:01 AM

After that summer SA, you don't really deserve the tahoe chicks in bikini's.....actually maybe you do.
Rad video by the way.

**Moralkaka** · 09-14-2010, 08:57 AM

Super sweet video, I wanna go MORE then ever!

**BGnight** · 09-14-2010, 08:58 AM

Very excellent stoke, sir

**pineconepete** · 09-14-2010, 09:49 AM

That's quite the snow chute at the chairlift.
Awesome video
OK, now back to shining my golf clubs

**Scotsman50** · 09-14-2010, 01:00 PM

Quality POV and skiing. Nice lines. thanks for sharing this. Got me stoked!

**bobrmr** · 09-14-2010, 01:23 PM

if it was that much fun to watch, it musta been amazing to ski. nicely done sir!

**fivefourtwo** · 09-14-2010, 02:03 PM

Awesome stoke, thanks, only a a month or so now ...

**cat in january** · 09-14-2010, 02:26 PM

Just opened the thread and hit the video and thought, "that looks like the guys from Unofficial Squaw's video". Yup Yup

IJ · 09-14-2010, 02:28 PM

who knew rippin to Big pun and Fat Joe would be so satisfying!! Too early to be watching such good stoke...

**lynchdogger** · 09-14-2010, 02:55 PM

And then it snowed . . . a lot! FKNA it did! Yahoo! That was tasty!

**Sessiøn** · 09-14-2010, 03:07 PM

Gopher stoke all year round

**Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer** · 09-14-2010, 03:37 PM

Really cool video. Not usually a fan of POVs, but that was awesome. Looks like you had a pretty awesome summer down there.

**smitchell333** · 09-14-2010, 04:42 PM

Looks like a lot of fun.

**The Duke of Hurl** · 09-14-2010, 10:42 PM

It hurts not to be there, thanks Gopher.

**Gopher** · 09-15-2010, 10:17 AM

Right on gentlemen. Stoked you guys are diggin´it. It was a helluva summer with a ton of snow and a lot of good times. I´m hoping that the ski legs and the confidence stick around just long enough to roll me into the real winter that´s coming. Come on La nina!

It was really cool to see how many mags hit the southern hemisphere this summer. The culture and life and language down here is pretty sweet.