A Forward From Argentina
My old friend Jan and his brother Urs just got back from a diplomatic shred mission in Argentina.
Here is what they had to Say:
“The Mountain we went to was Cerro Cathedral. They didn’t have much in the way of technology, ie fast/safe lifts, snowblowers, explosives for avi control or beacons for that matter….. Because of this we would get pounded with fresh and the mountain would take forever to fully open. ”
“The lower Mountain was better (not good, but better) at getting open after a big dump and had some fun trees, small features and runs that almost always ended in bamboo, which is a little trickier than the shrubs we are used to dealing with here in Steamboat.”
“They did have some sick terrain and an ass load of snow while we where there. At one point we got 3 meters in 48 hours, that’s nine fuckin feet!”
“Upper mountain was all above tree line and had everything from open bowls to 50 meter long 1 meter wide hairball chutes and if you want to jump off cliffs there was no shortage of big or small cliff lines”
“The town we stayed in was Bariloche, the biggest ski town I’ve ever seen, the population was something like 3 million. It’s hard to find anything open from about 4-7pm (siesta), the locals have dinner around 10 or 11 and pre game until 2am, and thats when everyone comes out. The main drag has a row of six night clubs 4 stories tall and they don’t close until after the mountain opens.”
Sounds like a pretty sweet trip, Im jealous!
Thanks Jan and Urs