Saturday 18 August 2007

*s*n*o*w*

Fair enough, it snows in Patagonia and the tops of the Andes, but not in Santiago! It didn´t stop snowing all night, and by the morning the city and Andes were totally white... and all the passes through the Andes were closed.

That meant a 1000km trip south to Orsorno, but it turned out alright in the end... The Lake District scenery crossing the Andes to Bariloche was awesome - snow drifts twice the height of the double decker bus, forests, lakes, rocky mountains and an amazing sunrise after a very long overnight bus...

Too much snow closed the lifts at Catedral, an ironic start to a day of skiing in Bariloche, but a couple of hours later it was all go with knee deep powder after the metre of fresh snow overnight...

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