When the season ended up in El Colorado i went to stay at ´la laguna aculeo´where a friend pinky lives. Its about an hour south south of Santiago and is the first amazingly beautiful place i saw in Chile. The house and lake are surrounded by hills, and in the distance you could see the andes, with a bit of snow still at the top. We had really nice weather so i guess that made it even more stunning. We only spent a day and two nights there, so we went to the lake with his friend Enric who was visiting [View Full Entry]

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Soooo...in Pucon i stayed with Nicos family. They have a second little house at the bottom of their garden which they sometimes rent out. I stayed there with Pinky and Juan (they both worked in the park in El Colorado and came down to visit too). It was just like being up in El Colorado...All the same people. Loads of the bar staff, and cafe people came from Pucon, so there was a nice group of friends.On the first night we had all the friends round for some ´copetes´(drinks) and all got a little tiddly. I went to bed a bit [View Full Entry]

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Hola mis chicos! Umm...sorry its been such a long time, i kinda forgot to write on the blog for the last 2 months :( But im now gonna update on all that in a few posts and try and keep it a bit more up to date. So...the rest of the season! In August be had a lot of snowfall, which meant lots of powder riding. It was snowing at least every week, if not twice a week. And the great thing about El Colorado is that when it snows, itll snow a lot all day, and you wake up the [View Full Entry]

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Howdy, Went to Chillan last week...bit of a disappointment to be honest, but purely down to the snow conditions, not the actual resort (which was muy bonita) I left El Colorado on Saturday (while it was heavily snowing here) and stayed the night in Santiago. The guy that i got a lift with lives in the hills and the building had an outdoor hot tub! So some friends came round and we chilled there looking over night time in Santiago. Pretty awesome, lucky bugger. Headed to Chillan on Sunday and found a Cabin for a tenner each per night. It was [View Full Entry]

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Well...Its kinda been an eventful few days. I hurt my ankle on Tuesday so didnt ride weds of thurs, and just played a bit of guitar (i can now play a whole song!) and watched films. Last night we went out...and i managed to give myself some sort of food poisoning! I tried these mussels from a can...i thought, they're probably gonna be rank as they are from a can and not fresh,but gave them a whirl anyway. I only had 3 little pieces, but 2 hours later felt horrendous at the bar, luckily i hadnt really had anything to drink! [View Full Entry]

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Hello team! I'm up in the mountains now, in the resort about 40k from Santiago called El Colorado. I got up here Friday and got dropped off at the building im staying in called Monte Blanco. Im staying in an appartment with Karl (who im renting off) and at the moment a guy from actual 'Colorado' called Jake. There will be more people coming and going, i think up to 8 during the season. So, on Friday afternoon after putting some bits and bobs away, and buying an (expensive) season pass me and Karl hit the slopes. It hadnt snowed for [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone!!! Thought id make my first entry into my blog on my first day! Everything has been absolutely brilliant so far.... Got to the airport with my bag 10kilos overweight... no problems. I was told i could only take one snowboard, boots and bindings and nothing else in my snowboard bag, naturally i put in 2 boards, helmet, several coats trousers and other random bits and bobs....absolutely fine! Then spread out on my THREE seats on the 2 hour flight to Zurich. I then had to change planes, and what i saw of Zurich airport (Switzerland) was really nice and [View Full Entry]

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