Chile, Valle Nevado. July 30-Aug 1

[Puck it]

Hopefully over some Beers in Zoomer parking lot or up at the bar on top !!
Can you tell I really miss Cannon right about now !

Both work for me! We need to hit the stuff over on the cliff side this year.

 

[JDMRoma]

Both work for me! We need to hit the stuff over on the cliff side this year.

As long as we don't have to crawl out on our hands and knee's Im up for anything !

 

[dlague]

Same here but what is wrong with crawling out of the bar! Oh wait you were talking about the cliffs? Crawling counts there too!


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[skiNEwhere]

I don't know if you count your ski days or not, but if you do, do you mark this as a day during the 13-14 season or 14-15 season?

 

[Cannonball]

I don't know if you count your ski days or not, but if you do, do you mark this as a day during the 13-14 season or 14-15 season?

I do count 'em. I definitely count these days as part of the 2013-2014 season. I haven't missed a month since October, so it feels much more like the continuation of the season rather than the start of the next. Also, I still haven't washed any of my gear since last fall so the season can't be over right?

For the record, these days put me at 48 days for the season. Still shy of my 50 day goal.

 

[MadMadWorld]

Glad you had a good time! Did she get sick on the bus? Smart move getting a front seat. Did you get a pass so you could check out La Parva and El Colorado? I forgot to mention the dogs on the mountain! They can smell Gringos from a mile away. We took one of the surface lifts and a couple ran up the mountain right next to us hamming it up the whole way. It was clearly not there first rodeo.

Valparaiso is indeed wild. It's like Miami meets Rio. There are some gorgeous mansions but then you also have shanty houses stacked on top of one another on a hill side.

 

[Cannonball]

Glad you had a good time! Did she get sick on the bus? Smart move getting a front seat. Did you get a pass so you could check out La Parva and El Colorado? I forgot to mention the dogs on the mountain! They can smell Gringos from a mile away. We took one of the surface lifts and a couple ran up the mountain right next to us hamming it up the whole way. It was clearly not there first rodeo.

No, she survived the ride!! Can't say the same for some others uke: . Unfortunately conditions weren't really conducive to doing the interconnects. The first day cover was so thin some of the connections were closed. The 2nd day was so socked in we were leery of heading off into the abyss. The 3rd day we just wanted to maximize the POW! Also, she wasn't thrilled about all the surface lifts. I'll suck it up for them, but they do honestly suck on a board. Especially with dogs chasing you!! (we saw that too).

Valparaiso is indeed wild. It's like Miami meets Rio. There are some gorgeous mansions but then you also have shanty houses stacked on top of one another on a hill side.

I was thinking New Orleans meets Venice meets San Francisco. They had a huge fire there a few weeks before we showed up. Really horrible situation. Between the narrow roads, the steep hills, and piled-on houses there was no way to fight the fire and it just tore through a huge neighborhood.

 

[MadMadWorld]

No, she survived the ride!! Can't say the same for some others uke: . Unfortunately conditions weren't really conducive to doing the interconnects. The first day cover was so thin some of the connections were closed. The 2nd day was so socked in we were leery of heading off into the abyss. The 3rd day we just wanted to maximize the POW! Also, she wasn't thrilled about all the surface lifts. I'll suck it up for them, but they do honestly suck on a board. Especially with dogs chasing you!! (we saw that too).


I was thinking New Orleans meets Venice meets San Francisco. They had a huge fire there a few weeks before we showed up. Really horrible situation. Between the narrow roads, the steep hills, and piled-on houses there was no way to fight the fire and it just tore through a huge neighborhood.

Did you get to ride a FUNicular? We stayed at a hotel in Valparaiso and it had one but something would happen every time we rode it and we would get stuck. The motor was on the roof so the poor guy at the front desk had to run up 8 floors every time to get it going again. I can't imagine how many times a day he had to do this.....sorry for the hijack

 

[Cannonball]

Did you get to ride a FUNicular? We stayed at a hotel in Valparaiso and it had one but something would happen every time we rode it and we would get stuck. The motor was on the roof so the poor guy at the front desk had to run up 8 floors every time to get it going again. I can't imagine how many times a day he had to do this.....sorry for the hijack

Yeah, we rode one. But we clearly missed the point because we walked up the hill then rode it down. One of those would work well for the Cannon-Lafayette interconnect.

 

[MadMadWorld]

Yeah, we rode one. But we clearly missed the point because we walked up the hill then rode it down. One of those would work well for the Cannon-Lafayette interconnect.

Yea we rode that same one. Funicular would be great for the interconnect. You think they make any high speed detachable ones?

 

[Cannonball]

Yea we rode that same one. Funicular would be great for the interconnect. You think they make any high speed detachable ones?

If that sucker detached it would be super high speed on the way down.

 

[ScottySkis]

Looks really sweet summer turns.

 

[skiNEwhere]

Pic from Valle Nevado's fb page. Guess they've gotten a couple big storms recently. Do face shots feel different in the southern hemisphere?

 

[MadMadWorld]

Pic from Valle Nevado's fb page. Guess they've gotten a couple big storms recently. Do face shots feel different in the southern hemisphere?

Notice that the snow swirls counter clockwise.

 

[Puck it]

Notice that the snow swirls counter clockwise.

Nice. I was just about to write that too. Name the effect without google.

 

[MadMadWorld]

Corealis? I know that's wrong....

 

[MadMadWorld]

Ha! I was right I just completely messed up the spelling

 

[Puck it]

Ha! I was right I just completely messed up the spelling

[SIZE=+1]Coriolis Effect

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