Skiing

Promised some new friends to continue my blog in English. So here it goes..
Last week in Santiago, exams, goodbyes, parties, packing and cleaning the house. On Sunday we had to clear op our stuff and give the keys back to our landlord Angela. Although exited of going travelling it was sad to leave our home and comfortable Santiago life.
At the moment am in Las Lenas in Argentina. Had to change my plans of coming directly here cause the boarder between Santiago and Mendoza was closed again last Sunday and after waiting for it to open the week before to get back to Santiago I definitely wasn’t going to do it again..
So I took a night bus down to Pucon to the south of Chile. With the aim to climb up to the volcano Villarrica and snowboard down it, but unfortunately, witch was quite probable, the weather was rainy and there was no chance of it. Instead I went to see some cool waterfalls and swam at night in some natural hot springs. The area around Pucon is amazing with volcanoes, lakes and arucaria trees, witch are these strange big super old pine treas that look really funny. As the rain didn`t seem to bee going anywhere moved on from Pucon to Brariloche.



Bariloche was great!! Finally got to do some good riding. Three super cool days riding great powder. The mountain isn't as big as Las Lenas but had some great snow on it. And just before I was leaving the mountain with very sore mussels from riding and hiking for three days I got offered free stretching and massage thanks to a promotion of the local phone operator!! So, very good last impression of Bariloche. The town is amazingly beatifu, alpine style by a turquoise lake and surrounded by gorgeous mountains. Thanks to the Argentinian highly efficient bus companies who gave me the wrong timetables and made me miss my bus, I got to spend an other day in Bariloche enjoying the secenery and their great artesan chocolate.

Now have been here for three days. Snow isn't so great, but have had some good days. They still haven't opened the top lift with basically opens up all the good riding. We hiked up to the top on monday, three hours hiking and while getting ready to drop in the pretty steep icy culouir I noticed that the strap of my binding is gone... Luckily got a strap of a friends backpac and tied my foot to the binding. Worked pretty well and got down the mountain.

At the moment scanning weather reports and trying to decide weather to spend my last skiing days here or to go and see the Santiago resorts.