Friday, August 22, 2008






These pictures are from the last two days of skiing, which have been amazing. Marte has been open, the sun has been out and the wind has been low. All of this is very rare for Las Lenas. My friend Danny and I have been exploring a region south of the resort where, unfortunately, very near to where we have been skiing the last two days a rescue attempt is currently taking place. There are not many details but at least 2 people are involved. The area we have been skiing does not have a name so we have called it Danny and Tom's or just DT for short, maybe it will stick, maybe not no big deal. This will be the first picture. It is a really cool area that holds some awesome snow, has tons of tubes to pick from and cliffs you can hit. The first day we skied right down the gut and I guess that would be DT proper. Today we went back and skied the left side of the of the zone with our friend Cynthia who is a guide here. We decided to call it Cynthia's variation of DT, we are really creative, but if you can get a run named after you here I think you should take it. We believe each run is over 3k vertical feet, however my idea of a long run is not what it used to be and this is a long one so it could be more. The next pictures will be of my tracks down the second pitch. The following picture is from the storm we had last Saturday. The table had only been out in the snow for 30 min. When it snows here it snows really hard. The last picture is of Cerro Los Fosiles in the morning with the moon over the Sombrero. Eduardo's, which is one of the main runs here, is all the way to the left. Hopefully these pictures go through.

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