Chilean Skiing

iSmokeweed

iSmokeweed

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Im heading down to Chile from late July to mid August. i was wondering of anyone knew of any great secret ski spots. ive skied on mountain there before but i wanna explore the "off-piste" terrain. help?
 
If you go to Farrelones, 3 Valleys, go ride Santa Theresa, its the easiest backcountry access I have ever seen, no need to hike, the only thing is you have to hitch a ride to get back to the top. You don't even need to buy I a lift ticket if you go down on the Farrelones side. I dont know about the situation right now, but if there's a storm during the week you will have fresh tracks all day. ANd every time there's a storm, next day it's bluebird. OH and make sure you buy food in Santiago before you head up there, cause there's absolutly nothing up there, no grocerie store, you can barely buy food, no laundry where I lived had to wash our cloths by hand. And be prepared it's damn expensive, lodging and lift tickets are far from cheap, you might wanna check out Argentina, I heard its cheaper
 
I went to Valle Nevado (in Santiago) was super fun, there were some neighboring ski areas forgot what they were called but explored over there too.The few things I found over there:-There are NO trees, flat light is a bitch sometimes they close the mountain for clouds.- Locals don't ski pow, at least where I skied it would stay for days.
Hope that helped a little
 
we got the 3 valles in santiago chile the best mountains in south america and you will find the best spots to ride and also we have the biggest park in southamerica...
 
whose park is better valle nevado or el colorado?
also.. how is the backcountry above la parva. i heard there was some good hike to above it (ex mcconkeys and others) and does it run back into one of the resorts or do u have to hike back out?
 
yeah ive skied all of valle/el colorado/ la parva. and the best is el colorado for park, la parva for short lift lines and no other skiers, and valle has the beat terrain in general. also the only express quad in all of Chile.
 
Exactly what the guy above me said. El Colorado is pretty much the only decent park from the three mountains. But, from what I've seen, it's not something to be traveling thousands of miles for. But good enough to keep you happy if you don't have any recent snowfall.

And as for the backcountry above La Parva... it is a short hike to get to some pretty decent areas. Bring a beacon, and spend time exploring. You can ski back to the lifts on most of the backcountry on La Parva that we found, unless you choose to skip the flat part back and just keep going down, that will end up in a hike back.
 
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