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Planning on Going to South America Next Summer?

By josh ⋅ November 9, 2008 ⋅ Email this post Email this post ⋅ Print this post Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

I am sure you know this, but the South American summer is our winter. As a teacher with a lot of time off during the summer, it makes a lot of sense for me to hop on a plane and go boarding in July. I’m sure I would be eager to do this even if I did not have a surplus of down time in the summer months, but the added incentive helps.

I am currently in the early stages of planning a snowboarding trip for next summer. As part of my research, I wanted to see if any of you have ever been snowboarding somewhere in South America, and to see what information you could share with me and other would-be travellers.

Currently, I am looking at abc-of-snowboarding.com and absorbing the information on their site about South American boarding. You can take a look here.

Cheers!

Discussion

  1. Go in late August if you can, there’s an annual storm that dumps on Argentina / Chile called the Santa Rosa (if I remember correctly). Best bet is Bariloche.

    Here are two long blog posts about my experience riding there:

    http://blog.dcdomain.org/2007/09/south-america-week-3-bariloche.php

    http://blog.dcdomain.org/2007/09/south-america-week-4-bariloche-and.php

    Posted by dc | November 10, 2008, 12:38 pm

  2. Thanks, dc! I’ll check it out now.

    Posted by josh | November 10, 2008, 12:46 pm

  3. Some of my friends have been talking about heading to Argentina next summer for a trip. Maybe I’ll see you up there ;)

    Posted by VancityAllie | November 17, 2008, 4:48 pm

  4. That would be nice as I will likely not be able to talk that many friends into forking over the cash needed for this type of trip. If I do go, I’ll definintely post about here!

    Posted by josh | November 18, 2008, 9:17 am

  5. I hit Chile last summer. We stayed in Pucon and rode Villarrica, an active volcano.

    The snow conditions aren’t the best. There are no trees (shaved off by lava flow) and lots of surrounding lakes that tend to reflect a lot of sun. This means the surface melts near the end of each day and re-freezes over night. It’s almost always custy unless it recently dumped

    However, the terrain is amazing. There are huge features carved by lava flow that are fun to play in. Some parts feel like giant half pipes.

    Posted by Zaskoda | December 4, 2008, 11:37 am

  6. Thanks for the info!

    Posted by josh | December 4, 2008, 11:11 pm

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