By the last week of August we found ourselves in a mini snow drought in Las Lenas. Worse still the temperatures had risen dramatically and the winds were up. Days were being spent getting up early and getting in some fun slush runs and then heading home before the mountain turned into cascading water with terrible dust storms that raged up the valleys. Still it was pleasant enough to sit out in the sun of an afternoon, sheltered by our house from the worst of the wind and down a few cold cervezas sitting in shorts and t-shirts. Mijic was starting to get a little antsy though.. it was his second last week and the resort had failed to deliver on the promises made during his first week of powder here. Meanwhile I had planned a ... read more

All right So I'm sure everyone is sick of getting these things by now.. but this one is a good one I promise with lots of photos of snow and very little writing. So we've been here for 3 weeks now and things have gotten of to a fantastic start. When we arrived on Thursday evening they had just finished clearing the streets from a massive storm and opening day wasn't set until saturday, so I went back down the valley early next morning to get a few things that we were missing from the apartment and was very surprised when I drove back up the hill at midday to see the charilifts turning and about a million people on the hill. Turns out that the day before the official opening day is Dia Libre.. when ... read more

So, the Argentinean bus rides..... If you are ever travelling through Argentina, don't ever think about flying....Argentinean buses are excellent. Nothing like the rest of South America, these Argentines sure know how to travel.... Pulling out of the BA Retiro Station.... (might I add, on a differently named bus than the company we bought out ticket from). We were meant to be traveling with “Via Bariloche” and our ticket said to be waiting at least 20 min before departure time. About 30 min before our scheduled departure time, we noticed there was another bus called “Tigre Iguazu” also leaving at the same time to the same place we were going - Puerto Iguazu. Not really thinking much of it, we decided to move our mountain of luggage from the waiting area, out to where the buses ... read more

We arrived in San Rafael (about 3hours drive from Las Lenas) at about 8:30am which left us about 20 minutes to find the right connecting bus to the mountains... we found the bus no problems as it was easily identifiable from the long line of people with ski gear waiting to get on it... a little too many people as it turned out. The bus was sold out and we were told that there “might be another one a little later”. Where this bus was going to materialise from was unclear, as was how much later this might occur. Frustrated that we were so close to our destination and seemingly stumbling at the last hurdle I left Alison at the bus station to guard all our bags and went roaming the streets of San Rafael to ... read more