Epic Up-date Part 1: The dump.....of snow, not the other stuff
So, three weeks.....you've heard nothing.....you're probably pissed off by now that I haven't posted any photographs, or written of any amazing adventures [nodding all-round]. I thought so. Well, I've got a couple of days off for reasons I shant reveal for fear that my mother will freak out and try to fly all the way to Bariloche just to give me a hug and say everything will be alright (I love you mom!). I'm going to try to catch up on as much of the past three weeks as possible.....and I'm going to split this massive bit of info up into different parts, just in case the internet crashes (which it does frequently, usually when a local duck sneezes 300 meters out on the lake) mid-writting.
Well, this one time, in Bariloche, they had a meter and half of snow fall in three days....in fact, it was the largest dump of snow that had fallen on record since 1986. This happened three weeks ago.....and I skied every single day of it, hahahahahahah.
This is what it looked like the day after the evening it started snowing (see below, fig. 3a)......we were allowed up the mountain, but only the mini-gondola was open.....all the other lifts we were snowed in, and would remain so for the next three days.
This is the same day.....a couple of groups met up and ripped it around the lower half of the mountain.....we were tree-skiing the majority of the day, but amazingly this is actually one of the main piste areas, rather than off-piste which it more or less resembles:
This is the same "piste" but a bit further down...a group of us try to do some skiing in unison, but clearly no-one could keep up with the legend that is me!! The group is as follows (from left to right): Stuwie, with Phil just behind, then me at the front (naturally), Max, Chris, and then Joe on the far right.....
As soon as it actually stopped shitting it down with the good stuff, we were able to safely ski the trees that litter the lower half of the resort....there are some areas were they are perfectly spaced - not so tight that you slam into them or get stuck if you're a bit of a fatty, but spaced nicely so that loads of snow gets in while still feeling like you are skiing in an enclosed forest!! Anyway, here's a selection of picies from that day, with a few modeling shots thrown in for the ladies!!
This first one is a view through the beautiful trees, with the snow pre-shreddage......you can't really tell, but there's about a meter of the fluffy stuff just waiting to be massacred, or carressed depending on your attitude to skiing powder!!
Yep, I know what you're thinking......hot! And you're not wrong
TITLE: Boys in 'da Wood (From Left: Flange, Stewart the Great, King Louis)
This is another photo of my good pal Benji.....he was the dude trecking up to the top of the mountain (with the pretty blue sky background) in the photos from the Avalanche rescue trip
Right......got to go to bed now, but will pick up where I left off tomorrow x x
Well, this one time, in Bariloche, they had a meter and half of snow fall in three days....in fact, it was the largest dump of snow that had fallen on record since 1986. This happened three weeks ago.....and I skied every single day of it, hahahahahahah.
This is what it looked like the day after the evening it started snowing (see below, fig. 3a)......we were allowed up the mountain, but only the mini-gondola was open.....all the other lifts we were snowed in, and would remain so for the next three days.
This is the same day.....a couple of groups met up and ripped it around the lower half of the mountain.....we were tree-skiing the majority of the day, but amazingly this is actually one of the main piste areas, rather than off-piste which it more or less resembles:
This is the same "piste" but a bit further down...a group of us try to do some skiing in unison, but clearly no-one could keep up with the legend that is me!! The group is as follows (from left to right): Stuwie, with Phil just behind, then me at the front (naturally), Max, Chris, and then Joe on the far right.....
As soon as it actually stopped shitting it down with the good stuff, we were able to safely ski the trees that litter the lower half of the resort....there are some areas were they are perfectly spaced - not so tight that you slam into them or get stuck if you're a bit of a fatty, but spaced nicely so that loads of snow gets in while still feeling like you are skiing in an enclosed forest!! Anyway, here's a selection of picies from that day, with a few modeling shots thrown in for the ladies!!
This first one is a view through the beautiful trees, with the snow pre-shreddage......you can't really tell, but there's about a meter of the fluffy stuff just waiting to be massacred, or carressed depending on your attitude to skiing powder!!
Yep, I know what you're thinking......hot! And you're not wrong
TITLE: Boys in 'da Wood (From Left: Flange, Stewart the Great, King Louis)
This is another photo of my good pal Benji.....he was the dude trecking up to the top of the mountain (with the pretty blue sky background) in the photos from the Avalanche rescue trip
Right......got to go to bed now, but will pick up where I left off tomorrow x x
posted by Louis at 11:30 AM
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