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Thread: Ski Chile 2023 vroom vroom
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05-16-2023, 08:30 AM #26
Check out https://bit.ly/Chileskiguide, although I haven’t updated it for a few years, it still gives a good overview of weather, geography, ski areas and backcountry options.
For rentals, google winter van rentals chile, or some such. Stuff like this should show up https://yeticampers.com/campers/.
Here is a website documenting many options for ski routes. https://www.andestouring.com/lugares/
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05-16-2023, 08:38 AM #27
“Plan is to fly into Santiago. My initial reading suggests you would catch connecting flights from there?”
Yes, you could fly to Temuco for a
volcano tour, for example, but probably the best adventure would be to drive, choosing a few spots between Portillo and Araucania and get a taste for the different latitudes of Chile, which decreases in altitude going south, but also increases in snowfall. Each deviation from the Panam highway implies a ~2 hour drive into the mountains to the snow line.
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05-17-2023, 02:26 PM #28
Maule stoke from Aerotoscana helis
https://youtu.be/6RYvUIUC50A
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05-22-2023, 06:19 PM #29Registered User
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Nice to see some snow on the Lenas cam for once!
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05-22-2023, 11:37 PM #30
Villarrica was frosty last Thursday, and is getting clobbered right now (top)
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05-23-2023, 07:05 AM #31
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05-23-2023, 10:46 AM #32
Portillo gets a dusting
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05-23-2023, 11:55 AM #33
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05-23-2023, 09:29 PM #34
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05-24-2023, 07:02 AM #35
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05-25-2023, 11:56 AM #36
Now this looks a bit more like winter, at least for a couple days. Windy, with an unusual 100km/hr event in Puerto Montt last night. Paradoxically, that bodes well, things are getting shaken up...
Kinda like the ocean surge forecasting which is important in Chile: " AVISO DE MAREJADAS ANORMALES SECTOR GOLFO DE PENAS HASTA ARICA Y ARCHIPIÉLAGO DE JUAN FERNÁNDEZ DESDE MARTES 23 DE MAYO HASTA SÁBADO 27 DE MAYO ."
https://www.directemar.cl/directemar...de-marejadas-0
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05-26-2023, 07:37 AM #37
And that looks more like it
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05-26-2023, 06:25 PM #38Registered User
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ECMWF a week out looks not bad precip wise
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05-27-2023, 07:06 PM #39
An old lady vroom vroom collaboration from Pucon
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06-02-2023, 06:10 PM #40Registered User
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Obviously hard to predict, would mid august or mid September be a more ideal timeframe for spring skiing in Chile? Again for human powered skiing
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06-04-2023, 12:03 PM #41
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06-13-2023, 12:30 PM #42Registered User
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Hello Casey,
Hope you're doing well. Ever skied in Ushuaia, what are your thoughts? Know it's on the other side of the border for you, but I may be spending the season there…
Cheers
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06-13-2023, 11:48 PM #43
I was in Ushuaia once, in 1977, when it was a wild west town with incongruous tax free ski shops, and a rope tow. I assume it has changed a bit, don’t know if for the better.
I do know the weather there, right beside the ocean, is crazy wind, snow, and rain. It is also beautiful. Way back then, the king crab were crawling around just below the town dock.
Snowbrains may have some updated info.
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06-14-2023, 12:15 AM #44
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06-14-2023, 12:11 PM #45
I went to Ushuaia a while ago. More recently than Casey, but still in the 1990's...
It was small then. Beautiful, but not a place I would want to hang for a long time like Las Lenas (if it snows and/or Marte actually opens). More than rope tow, but a couple of lifts, not a ton of vert, and nothing that I was just dieing to ski, again unlike LL or Portillo, or even the touring around Chillan. Sorry, that's all I got.He who has the most fun wins!
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06-16-2023, 04:40 PM #46Registered User
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Will keep you guys updated so!
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06-17-2023, 10:37 PM #47
Corralco announces its entry into the bigger leagues with the acquisition of a used high speed quad from the US, to be operational in 2024. Big question is will it open new terrain or replace the clunky old platter / t-bar combo. I personally have had 3 bars bust on me while riding that highly inefficient (also used) lift, which was a game changer when it opened about 8 years ago.
https://www.emol.com/noticias/Econom...temporada.html
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06-19-2023, 06:06 PM #48
just bought stupidly cheap tickets to argentina, $800 bucks round trip from NYC to Bariloche with a few days in Baries each way. Pretty pumped
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06-20-2023, 12:18 AM #49
Looks like rain up high the length of the Andes. Up to 3,500m freezing level in the central Andes…
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06-20-2023, 02:55 PM #50Registered User
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