In the past 24 hours we have seen 15" fall pretty evenly across the Andes. Another cold front is moving across the mountains tomorrow and we are gearing up for another blast of light Andean powder! Here's some pics from this last round of snow.
Saw your pics of Iguazu Falls and seriously thinking about a trip. How many people do I need in my group? If I do not have enough, can you group me/us with others?
Endless Turns is currently working on a new website, which will have plenty of photos and some of the newest technology in web development. We are very excited about this project. As soon as it is launched, we will let you know, so stay tuned!
All the years of not being able to find any backcountry toruing set-ups in South America has now come to an end. Valle Nevado Resort just announced that they have randonee skis and snowshoes for rental this 2010 ski season. This will really help our clients be able to have an introduction into one of the most addiciting sports in the world, backcountry skiing.
Have you tried this yet? If not, join us on one of our South American ski adventures and find out what you have been missing. Randonee skis can also be rented in Ushuaia, which is located down on the island of Tierra del Fuego on the southern tip of Argentina. Some gear can also be rented in the village of Bariloche.
Another blast of cold air and deep powder has hit the Andes. In the past 24 hours there has been another 2 feet of dry powder! The bases are getting deeper every few days and storms continue to roll in and out of the Argentinean and Chilean Resorts. This could turn out to be the most epic season Endless Turns has seen down there ever.
Who has skied in South America before? Which resorts do you like the best and why? Let us know which resorts you have skied and the ones that are still on your bucket list.
After this past monsterous storm that just hit the Andes, Valle Nevado opens its slopes June 20th with epic powder conditions...... Here are some photos of the spectacular day, which will not be forgotten!
After what was an 8-day whiteout, Las Lenas opens for the season today!!! The village has been buried and there is no report from the top of the Martes lift as to how much snow has fallen on the top of the mountain. The lifts are being dug out as we speak and there is more snow forecasted!
Here are some photos of the latest blizzard in Las Lenas!
As the 7-day storm continues in the Andes, the resorts are getting ready for their opening day. El Colorado in Chile is the first resort to open and the rest are not too far behind...
Las Lenas-June 21
Portillo-June 26 El Colorado-Open!
Valle Nevado-June 19
Cerro Castor-June 25
Chapelco-June 26
Cerro Catedral (Bariloche)-June 25
Nevados de Chillan (formerly Termas de Chillan)-June 26
La Parva-June 18
Welcome to yet another great South American ski season. Las Lenas opens Saturday, June 19th! Check out the current cam of the this 4-day storm which has been delivering the goods to the Andes. It just keeps on coming.....
Have you always wanted to ski in the summer, when the temps at home reach the upper 90s? How many of you have skied the Andes? This summer is your chance, as the South American ski resorts are gearing up for another wonderful powder season. Take a look at this web cam today from Las Lenas......
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As the North American winter continues here in northern Utah, the Wasatch receives another 7-8" of new snow, with an additional 6-12" rolling in tonight and tomorrow! Snowbird extends their season until June 20th, as mid mountain bases are at 120" and growing. What started off as a mediocre season here in the Wasatch, has now become another steller season. This 2009/2010 season has already reached the 600" snowfall mark in the Cottonwood Canyons and the forecast is for continued snow through the week! Late May is feeling more like late March & early April. Check out some of our photos on yesterday's tour at the closed Deer Valley Resort......
New snow fell again across the Andes this past Saturday, as the South American ski season is now just around the corner. Valle Nevado, Portillo, Termas de Chillan now have a fresh blanket of new powder. All of the Chilean & Argentinean resorts are preparing for another great season.
As the snow is starting to pile up in Ushuaia-Argentina this week, the Cerro Castor resort is gearing up for a mid June opening. They are tenatively planning for a June 16th opening. Gran Catedral and Las Lenas, also in Argentina, are going to be seeing some great storms this week as well and will be having a mid June opening also. Check back for udpated weather as these storms deliver the goods to the ski resorts of Argentina & Chile. Endless Turns still have availability on guided trips in August and September. If you would prefer having a ski week or more any any of the Andean Resorts, just let us know your dates of travel and which resort (s) you would like to ski. Call 800-328-4993 and one of our travel specialsts will assit you. You can also send us an email at info@endlessturns.com.
We look forward to seeing you in the Andes shortly!
Big snow is falling across the Andes, as the first major storm has hit! Both the Argentine & Chilean side of the Andes are being affected by this storm, which is great news for the ski resorts. Resorts normally open mid June, but if this early season snow continues, we could see some of the resorts starting to open in two weeks..... Check out these photos from Las Lenas!
Special Promotion Now Through May 30th- Stay 7-nights for the Price of 5-nights at any of the three Valle Nevado Resort Hotels: Hotel Valle Nevado, Puerta del Sol, Tres Puntas. These are incredible package deals, as they include 7-nights of accommodations, 8-day ski pass, all breakfasts, dinners, afternoon tea/snacks, and ground transfers. We can also arrange a few nights of lodging in Santiago either prior to or after your ski week. Rooms are filling fast with this special promotion, so call us today at 800-328-4993 to reserve your summer ski getaway!
20% Off All Guided & Unguided South America Ski Packages till May 20th, 2010!!! Hotel rooms and flights are filling up quickly, so get yours while they are still available. We are offering some very exciting guided ski trips to Argentina and customized trips throughout the Chilean Andes. Ski season starts mid June an...
Utah has seen record snowfall from April 29-May 2, 2010:
7 feet has fallen across the Wasatch and conditions are the best of the season! Snowbird will be open through Memorial Day Weekend and possibly into the 4th of July if this keeps up. Don't put those boards away yet, its time for some wonderful resort skiing and ski touring!
The Valle Nevado Ski Resort near Santiago, Chile has some very exciting new plans over the next 3 years. To kick off the quickly approcahing 2010 season, Valle Nevado has installed 2 new lifts and 5 new runs, which really broadens this already massive South American ski complex, which is located 1.5 hours above the metropolis of Santiago.
Read more below to see their plans:
US$40 Million Inveseted To Renew Chile’s Largest Ski Resort
Written by Laura French
Tuesday, 04 May 2010 05:18
Valle Nevado to renovate its hotels, apartments, and sporting sites
A master plan has been put into place to transform Valle Nevado into a year round ski resort town. Over the next three years, US$40 million will be invested in the town in order to create a “comfortable place with parking, service and a platform of restaurants,” says Valle Nevado general manager Ricardo Margulis.
“We have always wanted to convert Valle Nevado into a mountain town, that has both summer and winter attractions,” said Abrajam Senerman, an architect working on the master plan.
Valle Nevado, a popular ski resort 70 km from Santiago, was established in 1986. Nestled in the Andes, Valle Nevado has 9,000 skiable hectares spread over 37 kilometers of runs. Ski season is between the beginning of June and the beginning of October, though the resort is open year round.
Valle Nevado offers not only traditional skiing, but also snowboarding, heli-skiing, hang gliding, heli-surf, hiking, horseback riding, and rock climbing. The resort also has the only super snowboarding half pipe in South America.
Chile is known for its Andes skiing throughout the northern hemisphere. It is a popular destination for Olympic training and family vacations alike, as the best conditions here correspond with the summer months in the United States and Europe. Valle Nevado is located near two other well-known and respected ski resorts, La Parva and El Colorado, in an area called Los Tres Valles.
Currently, the ski resort offers the biggest ski-able surface in South America, three hotels, eight restaurants, and apartments. Valle Nevado will expand business in the summer and improve the skiing experience in the winter months. As part of the plan, the group will build at least one new building per year over the next 15 years. At the end of next year, there will be 260 apartments for sale.
Additionally, the existing hotels will be renovated. US$1 million will be invested in the Valle Nevado hotel this year. A premium hotel, to be built by 2014, will be run by an international chain.
The businessmen behind the plan are excited about the future of Valle Nevado and the demand the new renovations will create. “When a project is good, demand is created. We are positive that we have a really good project, so we will also have a very high demand,” adds Senerman.
Our Austrian & French Alps spring season had the best of both worlds, silky corn and deep epic powder! Take a look at some of our pics from the beautiful ski shots we had, as well as the great apres-ski at the Mooserwrit biergarden in St. Anton....
Incredible snows are still falling across the Wasach Range May 2, 2010. This storm began on April 29th and has come in like a lion, delivering 60"+ to the mountains over the past 4 days. Conditions are like mid February as Utah continues to build its base depths at most of its closed resorts (Snowbird will be open till at least Memorial Day and maybe longer if the snows continue to pile up) and in the beautiful backcountry terrain. Snow depths are upwards of 140-150" and its getting deeper.... Check out some photos and come join Endless Turns for some late season powder
Happy Holidays from Endless Turns! Winter season here in Utah is great for making those ENDLESS powder turns.... Looking forward to seeing everyone this season in the Wasatch. Have a nice and safe holiday season.
Big snows finally return to the Wasatch this past week, as 40-50" fell across the range, adding to our much needed base depths. With more snow in the forecast Chrsitmas week, Utah will be full of the "Greatest Snow On Earth" once again. Come join us this year to see what all the ski magazines have been raving about for years, as having some of the best powder skiing in the world.
Let ENDLESS TURNS arrange your next memorable ski vacation. We have ski & snowboard packages that include hotel accommodations, transfers/rental cars, ski passes, backcountry ski guides, and other excursions while in the Salt Lake & Park City areas.
Endless Turns is now offering great adventure travel package deals to Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. Check out our website at www.endlessturns.com for trip itineraries & pricing to some of the most beautiful destinations in the world:
Los Glaciares National Park-Patagonia region of Argentina
Torres del Paine National Park-Southern Chilean Patagonia
Iguazu Falls-Northern Argentina & Southern tip of Brazil
Mendoza-Foothills of the Andes Mountains (border of Argentina & Chile)
Rio de Janeiro & Buzios-Come experience Carnival in Brazil!
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Incredible turns on October 5th, as the Wasatch receives its first blanket-2 feet of cold smoke! Even though we prefer that heavy Cascade concrete or Sierra cement early on, the pre season turns were definitely quite enjoyable.....
The Andes are buried under 7-8 feet of new snow and the snow continues to pile up.... The biggest storm of the year is now affecting the Cordillera of Argentina & Chile. Las Lenas, Portillo, Bariloche, Termas de Chillan, and many other resorts have been blanketed by this storm.
Hotels are offering significant savings now through the end of the season (which will be early October 2009), so reserve your powder getaway now, before its too late!
Significant Ski Trip Package Discounts Now Available Till October 10th (when ski season ends)!!!Save on both our week long ski packages, as well as our guided ski tours of 9-16 days. The snow in the Andes continues to pile up, so reserve your trip today! Endless Turns can also arrange adventure travel extensions after your ski week, to the Iguazu Falls, the vineyards of Mendoza, the beautiful beaches of Rio, Brasil, and more...
12" of new snow has fallen across the Andes Mountains in South America so far and blizzard conditions are keeping it going.... This is a long awaited storm for increasing base depths and enhancing the overall skiing experience! Stay tuned for more updates tomorrow, as we continue to monitor this very big cold front!
The Andes Ski Resorts from Portillo and Las Lenas in the north, to Barioche, Chapelco, Termas de Chillan, and Cerro Castor in the south are being blanketed by the biggest storm of the season! Take a closer look at the dumpage in Las Lenas, as we speak:
Sunday proved to be yet another awesome summer skiing day in the high Uinta mountains of northern Utah. The snow still lingers up at 10,000+ feet, as the numerous chutes and steep north facing walls still provide exciing turns for late June! Check out the pics....
Welcome to the 2009 Summer Ski Season in the Andes, as 4-5 feet of new snow has fallen in 72 hours across the range, from Portillo in Chile to Las Lenas and Bariloche in Argentina! All of the South American resorts will be open by this upcoming weekend for some amazing skiing and boarding. Check out some live shots from Las Lenas from the latest storm!
The snows are piling up in the Andes of South America. 2 Feet of New Powder has already has fallen so far in Las Lenas and it continues to snow very hard!!! Heavy snow is also reported in Barioche, Chapelco, Ushuaia, and across the Chilean Andes. Check out this photo of the current webcam in Las Lenas:
As the South American ski season quickly approaches, both our guided and unguided ski trips are filling up. Most of the resorts in Argentina and Chile will kick off the season between June 13-17, 2009. Check out these links for more trip information and pricing:
United Airlines is now offering unbelievable mileage perks for flights from the States down to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro through August 31, 2009! During this time you can fly down to these three cities for 40,000 Mileage Plus Miles, instead of the normal 55,000! This is a great way to fly for free to one of our upcoming ski/snowboard trips down in the Andes this summer.
Mtn. Biking was awesome this weekend near St. George in Southern Utah, as we took some time off from working and rode some classic desert trails. Check out some of the pics below to see why Utah has such world class singletrack!
18" of new snow has fallen over the past 3 days and we once again have powder conditions up high on thos N/NW facing aspects. On all other aspects the snow has heated up a bit with the warming temperatures, but conditions are still quite nice across the range for late April!!! Now is the time to take advantage of thos long days to do one of your favorite super tours or ski that radical line that you have been looking at all season when avalanche conditions were higher and made it not possible. Spring in the Wasatch is wonderful, skiing in the morning and mountain biking, rock climbing or golfing in the afternoon! It doesn't get better then this...
Corn conditions were ideal last week in the Wasatch, just about as buttery as they get. Early starts were important, as the snow became elephant snot by about 11 AM. The Toledo Chute and Flagstaff Ridge were in perfect form, starting with the East facing, then moving towards the South, and finally to the West facing slopes. The steep pitches were really fun, as the corn cascaded down behind you, like you were slicing through big fields of butter.... Check out the pics to see all the fun!
Conditions in the Wasatch are a mix of steller conditions in the late spring with blower powder and others which are character building, such as the recent elephant snot and breakable crust. However, the images below are more of those desirable late season turns we all love so much- beautiful powder in the high alpine to corn in the middle elevations....
The 2009 summer ski season down in Argentina & Chile is only a few months away, as most of the resorts will be opening between the 13-17 of June 2009! We are currently taking guided ski trip reservations on our trips of 9-16 days. In addition, we are also reserving ski week trips for those of you interested in skiing the Andes on your own or with friends/family. We look forward to skiing down in South America and to providing you with one of your most memorable ski vacations ever!
Utah has received yet another 40+ inches of snow and the season snow totals approach nearly 700"! Skiing is as good as it gets here in Utah, with Snowbird still open and all the endless backcountry terrain.
Record snowfall hits the Wasatch, dumping 160" of snow in 12 days!!! The skiing is as good as it gets and there is more in the forecast. Better get here soon to get your face shots, as they are in abundance....
Those are cars buried under all that Wasatch fluff....
Welcome to the approaching 2009 Summer Ski Season in South America! Come join us on one of our guided adventures to the many beautiful ski resorts in the Andes Mountains. Check out this video of the wonderful off-piste skiing in the heart of the Patagonia Lake District:
Over the past two weeks the bases at the ski resorts have continued to grow and are now up to 125". Season totals just passed the 400" mark and we still have 2 1/2 months left of good snowfall! Springtime in Utah should be great, with plenty of awesome powder & corn skiing going on.
Lambs Canyon serves up plenty of hidden stashes and is away from the masses....
All of the days are starting to blend togther and this just illustrates the perfect conditions that Utah is currently experiencing for a day of backcountry skiing...
USA Bowl delivers up more fresh goods and the cold temps keep that fluff the way we like, cold & dry!
Utah's backcountry is shaping up nicely as 60-70" has fallen across the range this past week, filling in all of the beautiful terrain features that we all enjoy so much! The forecast looks good, as the storms are lined up off the Pacific and just waiting to move across the Great Basin area. Utah is definitely living up to it's reputation as the "Greatest Snow On Earth"!
Today was the best day of the year with another shot of that cold smoke we all love! This season is shaping up nicely, check out these deep powder turns right in our own backyard!
Classic day of face shots in the W Bowl of Silverfork! The only problem we found today was that our legs ran out of gas for the uphill climbing and the fresh lines just kept coming & coming....
The Northern Wasatch Mountains of Utah have turned back into winter mode, as yesterday's storm dropped 1 foot of 5% fluff! Conditions have improved dramatically and there are more storms on the way later in the week. Yesterday was a fun tour, with 5 climbs skinning and untracked powder runs every time! As conditions improve, more trailheads will continue to open up and provide us with longer lines to ski & board. For more updated snow, weather, and avalanche conditions, visit www.avalanche.org, under Utah. Here, you will find the Utah Avalanche Center with daily weather and snowpack stability updates. Stay tuned for more Endless Turns Snow Reports as those big Pacific storms roll in later this week...
Winter has arrived to the Wasatch, dumping 40-50" of new snow! October started out dry precipitation wise, but November came roaring in with this big "lake effect" storm. Utah has officially kicked off it's 2008/2009 ski & snowboard season. Endless Turns is looking forward to showing you some spectacular runs this season! Keep the storms coming....
Endless Turns is now taking reservations for our 2008/2009 Adventure Travel Trips throughout South America. Our adventures take us to Patagonia, Iguazu Falls, Bariloche, San Martin de Los Andes, Rio de Janeiro, Buzios, and the Atacama Desert, just to name a few.
How about a dune buggy ride to pristine beaches in the Porto Seguro area of Brazil? World class beaches await for some of the finest snorkeling and scuba diving found anywhere. The nightlife is never ending as well, with samba fiestas lasting until the sunrise comes up over the Atlantic Ocean and the locals change out of their disco attire and into their swimsuits, ready for the great surf of the day! From the high Andes Mountains of Argentina & Chile to the driest desert in the world, the Atacama, South America has something for everyone.
The Andes have been blanketed with up to 6 feet of new snow since the snows began falling across the Patagonian Andes on July 27, 2008.! From Ushuaia, up to Bariloche and San Martin, snow has been piling up and improving the bases depths dramatically. Las Lenas has also been experiencing the recent snowfalls, with up to 2 feet new this past week alone. Endless Turns has been enjoying all of the great new powder out there and much more is in the forecast! Our recent trips to the "End of the Earth" on the island of Tierra del Fuego and to the Lakes District of Patagonia could not have been better, as everyone enjoyed the over abundance of face shots and long powder runs. We still have some space on our trips in August and September. From the great skiing to the limitless cultural activities, Endless Turns will take you there!!!
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Utah's backcountry is shaping up nicely as 60-70" has fallen across the range this past week, filling in all of the beautiful terrain features that we all enjoy so much! The forecast looks good, as the storms are lined up off the Pacific and just waiting to move across the Great Basin area. Utah is definitely living up to it's reputation as the "Greatest Snow On Earth"!
How about a dune buggy ride to pristine beaches in the Porto Seguro area of Brazil? World class beaches await for some of the finest snorkeling and scuba diving found anywhere. The nightlife is never ending as well, with samba fiestas lasting until the sunrise comes up over the Atlantic Ocean and the locals change out of their disco attire and into their swimsuits, ready for the great surf of the day! From the high Andes Mountains of Argentina & Chile to the driest desert in the world, the Atacama, South America has something for everyone. 
