Andes Ski Blog

This week’s exotic volcano is Ecuador’s Cotopaxi. Rising to a total height of 19,393 feet, this enormous glacier-clad stratovolcano is one of the true jewels of the Andes, and is … Read More

Jordan Manley is back at it with episode 3 (season 2) of A Skier’s Journey. In this episode Jordan travels far south to Argentina. You can watch more episodes of A Skier’s Journey HERE. Argentina: … Read More

With a waning start to a La Nina winter here in California, the dreamy feeling of floating through thick pow is beginning to fade to a foggy memory.  But alas, … Read More

Wild winds parlayed into perfect pow in and around Las Leñas, and with this strange device known as a tripod a few cross-valley shots were captured.  Please note that this … Read More

This past summer in South America was spectacular…depending on where you were.  It seemed to snow every four of five days for four or five days in Patagonia & Las … Read More

5 Reasons Why Are The Trees in Patagonia So Great for Skiing:

1 – No Tree Wells

2 – No Branches Down Low…

The Las Leñas staple, Jordi Tenas, shares with Unofficial his 2011 “summer” edit. It’s not hard to see why Jordi chooses to give up the beaches of Northern Spain to plunge … Read More

The Rip Curl team was on the search again last winter for their new movie THE GUM. It all started with a trip to Argentina where they’ve been spotted strange … Read More

#1 AIGUILLE DU MIDI – Chamonix, France – Built in 1955, held title as highest cable car on Earth for 20 years – Carries 65 passengers – Highest vertical ascent … Read More

The newly opened Puma Lodge, located outside of Santiago, Chile at an altitude of 1,325 meters, is the worlds first 5 star Heli-Ski Lodge. Opened at the start of the 2011 South American ski season this … Read More

One run in Las Leñas 2011: Eduardo – Our Spanish buddies from Argentina,  Txema Trull and Jordi Tenas, sent us over this POV video from August 31, 2011 of their first … Read More

As the snow is starting to fall in the northern hemisphere, the season is coming to an end in the south.  But, there is still some good riding to be … Read More

Conditions are pretty beat in this video, but it’s good to see Tanner Getting his confidence and legs back.  Wether you can’t stand him or think he’s the man, I … Read More

This summer we mostly saw snowboard edits come out of the SASS editing room. So when I saw they released a ski edit for session five and six I was … Read More

Sweetgrass Productions will present their new film, “SOLITAIRE: A Backcountry Skiing, Snowboarding, and Telemark Film” next Friday, September 30th in Telluride. Sweetgrass just recently took home the Best Cinematography award … Read More

People don’t usually travel from all corners of the world to ski in the heart of Patagonia. In the northern stretches of Patagonia there’s more favorable ski conditions, as Jake … Read More

The ash from the F*ING volcano in Chile continues to make the sky look crusty. For the last week there’s been a constant film above Bariloche and Cerro Catedrall. Hiking … Read More

It’s been a great season in Bariloche, Argentina.  It essentially snowed here every few days from July 25th until September 15th.  Which was ideal, because when it doesn’t snow here … Read More

One last late blooming powderday in South America. This is not how the day began, but it was how it ended. I thought it was supposed to be spring down … Read More

Maybe the last powder day this side of the equator. The Unofficial Andes team is ready for spring.  Miles Clark stated that “we’ve had our share of GREAT SNOW DAYS down … Read More

by:  el Pinche Yanqui de Mierda…aka Rich Quintero If you think you’re a “Hardcore Skier” and you’ve never taken a summer off to ski in South America, then I’ve got … Read More

Hope everyone enjoyed chasing the storm in Baraloche.  I know the folks in the Valle De Las Lenas are happy you did.  Things are nice and quiet here allowing time for … Read More

Skip to 1:08 into the video for an awesome time lapse of the Volcano…it looks like a locomotive!

Editors note:Drew Tabke is the 2011 Freeskiing World Tour Champion and a part time resident of Farellones, Chile. Termas de Chillan is south of Santiago and sees far less traffic … Read More

The backcounry & sidcountry of Cerro Catedral is F*ing AWESOME. There are runs named Little Alaska… and if there’s a run named little AK  you know it’s gotta be good.

Europe clinched the first ever Swatch Skiers Cup yesterday with a final point tally of 14-10 after riders from both teams stepped up their game to put on a huge … Read More