Go to South America!

mckeeman

mckeeman

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Just do it. Save your cash, instead of going to summer camp and skiing on some shitty glacier, go to Las Lenas Argentina and go rip Powder like you have never ripped before. Party like you have never partied before, and then do it all over again the next day. Im not kidding when I say it was the best trip of my life. Check out South America Snow Sessions. They do 2 week camps for the same price as summer camps in whistler. Only you bring your fat skis and huck into waist deep powder. Check it out at www.SAsnowsessions.com it is the coolest camp i have ever seen. I got to kick it with the guys that work for them, and lined up a possible job as a coach next year. You want to see photos of what i was skiing,l check my profile, i just uploaded them.
 
o you're back, I saw some nuts pictures of the recent days at Las Lenas. Did you go anywhere else, like Valle nevado or Cerro Catedral, or Cerro castor? Yeah argentina is the place to go right now because it is so damn cheap once you're there, although the skiing is not.
 
I stayed in Las Lenas for 3 1/2 weeks...I had to come home early because i had some roomate issues, and had to pay rent.

I paid for ONE lift ticket the entire trip. Poaching is easy if you know how to do it...otherwise 80 pesos ($35) is a day ticket
 
you came home because of roomate issues? your vagina is fully dilated i am sure.
 
Was just in Chile, Aug 13-Sept4 at Termas de Chillan. (3 hours from Concepcion or 6 hours from Santiago) We had the most unbelieveable snow, it was epic. The storm cells would come in for 3-4 days, dump 5-15 feet up top, 2-8 feet lower and then we'd have a day or two of bluebird skies. Repeat this 3 times and thats what August was like.

It snowed so much that the upper t-bars were COMPLETELY burried, nothing was left of them. The resort lost snow cats, skidos, whole buildings in the drifts. We were jumping off of decks, roofs, and almost drowning in the snow there was so much of it.

The resort was so small that you could hit first tracks all day, and never ski the same line/chute twice. This totally made up for the subpar season back home in Whistler.
 
One of my favorites! That is a funky, cool mountain. To anyone who hasn't been, stay at the Las Trancas Hostel. It's in a small village about 7 miles before the resort, right where the road turns to dirt.

The road access skiing in Valle Nevado rocks, too. Like heli-skiing but you use a car + lifts to spin laps.

This was the year down there, super sick.
 
Las Lenas had the Marte Lift (peak chair) burried for 3 weeks in August because they got too much snow. (Marte services every peice of terrain on the mountain) So the lower half was only open. I arrived Sept 3rd, and 2 days later it opened with 25 cms and bluebird for the next week. Super Sick...you will see pics very soon. "Dont think twice, fuckin' send it!" -to south america
 
...oh yeah and I am the leaseholder of the house and 3 roomates bailed, so i had to get rent covered, otherwise id be on the street.
 
dood SA is the shit i went to the camp and it was the best experience of my life. everything about it, the pople we chilled w/ the skiing the partying the girls the no dirnking age the skiing soooo sick sasnowsessions.com
 
I'm living in santiago in chile at the moment. The amount of snow they've had at valle nevado this year is insane! There's still well of 3m of snow on the trails but the resort closes in a week, this is my last weekend of skiing until next June...totally sucks
 
southamerica is in their spring right now...opposite of us..go there july-mid sept...thems the good times to be there.

talk to ski and destroy, he was there, he can vouch for me as being the sickest trip of all time...if you can see over the bar, you can drink.
 
i could rant for days abuot it. its just the chillest place on earth no doubt. im going back for 4 weeks next yar instead of 2 and just going out everynight, meeting new people, partying,then skiing some of the craziest terrain on the planet. last year was so sick, the camp will only get better as time passes. oh yeah and the coaches are chill w/ anything.

basiclly if you can say "una cervasa porfavor" you can buy a beer. or "speed and vodka" that shit was nicce too

treadway was there , he was a great man, he buoght us drinks too.
 
the lift lines are pretty much the same as any other place, if it dumped there were a lotta people waiting for access. but the mtn is so huge that everyone spreads out and all the noobs usually stay on the groomed tracks, or they dont go out too far bc at least. but there is soo much skiable terrain that the crowds get completely broken up. there were some big lift lines after it snowed tho... its kinda to be expected tho.
 
Actually most of the skiers at Valle Nevado are Chilean. There are a lot of brazilians too. Chile's the most developed South American country and there are a lot of people who can afford to ski (although there are also a lot of people who can barely afford to eat).
 
it was the Best experience of my life, i have been wanting to go back ever since i stepped foot on the airplane in San Rafael
 
Las Lenas is in Argentina, although its about 10kms drectly from the chilean border. Lift lines do get long (5-10mins)on pow days, becuase there are no highspeed quads ( not yet at least ) but the terrain is SO HUGE that everybody disperses. There is so much terrain in bounds and 10 times the ammount OB if you want to hike for 45 mins. Its incredible. It makes whistlerblackcomb and its surrounding backcountry seem small, and WAY less gnarly. Las Lenas has terrain that will make you cry like a small child. Thats what i love about it. All the locs stick to the groomers and they dont even get up until 1pm. If you can party all night an still get up for 8am, you are laughing...
 
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