Monthly Archive for September, 2008
Sunsets in Chile are,” all time”. Nearly every night as the day faded, the golden light turned into reds, yellows, oranges, lavenders, blues, and eventually grays.
Morning brought new snow, and clear skies, so we assembled the team and headed for the heli pad. Chopo, Forest, Stacy Thomas, and I were beyond stoked to go helli skiing and boarding with these conditions.
The Andes are impressive ,the landscape is big, peaks are jagged and rocky, and the mountains looked extra impressive with a fresh coat of paint. We had a perfect day, riding lines, billy goating, chilling and over all, enjoying our time in the mountains. 
Carlos Ferrer and I stoked to fly!
we didnt fly in this helli, but it looked preaty cool.
Our steller guide
The crew, Stacy, Chopo, Forrest, and our guide…
Night reflects the santiago lights skyward
Its seems strange at first, looking for the good snow on the opposite side of the mountain. As if in some parallel universe, up is down, winter in the summer, backwards mountains… No not a bizarro world, a very real world in the southern Hemisphere called, Chile. In the middle of August all it takes to get excited is thinking of snow . Wishing for powder, not caring if it was hard pack, as we headed into the mountains I knew that it was going to be fun.”
First turns down the several day old pow felt too good to be true, fresh, soft, boot top deep. Off the couch the crew rallied, shredding 10 runs or more after a red-eye flight into a crack-o-noon start.
Santiago, 6 million people…wow
where am I ?!?! isn’t this august…
our sweet ride North Face Rossignol official athlete car…
