Blogs from San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina, South America - page 10

After the snow hardened up I decided to hit the park and try to do some rails. After a sweet boardslide to rib-grind I had to take a week off the board completely, then another week of pretty light riding. A lot of backgammon and ping pong was played, along with a couple good parties. Here’s some downtime pictures!... read more

After a week at the hostel I made a few friends and we decided to find an apartment. A couple I met started asking around and found this amazing place. Sick view of the mountains, tons of room for all of our boarding gear and only about $225 Canadian per month for each of us.... read more

The first day we went up to the mountain it was too windy so we went over to Hotel Dinko to help them build their snowboard park. There’s a big group of locals that get together and build a park right next to the hotel. They do competitions and there’s a bar right next to it. Pretty sick setup! On Canada day we got about a foot of snow. It was insane! The terrain is a lot different than Canada. A lot of open runs and sweet cliffs, but not a lot of tree runs. Spending Canada day in winter was a different experience, but it felt right. The next couple days the mountain was closed to we just helped out with the snowboard park. Can’t wait until it’s done!... read more

The trip here was interesting. 49 hours of planes, airports and buses. Everything was going pretty good until the cab driver at the Buenos Aires airport tried to say I gave him 2 ten pesos bills instead of two hundreds. I should have learnt to say "give me back my money" in spanish. Probably with a few more F words in there, but i think i agreed not to swear on this blog site or I'd get kicked off. Eventually after me just saying no and two hundred a bunch of times he finally took me to the bus station. The bus station was a pretty interesting place, it was hard to take pictures from the bus but the station was surounded by some spretty interesting areas. It kind of looked like pictures I've seen of ... read more

Phoenix Rising from the Ash They say the third time's a charm, but all three of my visits to Bariloche have been charmed. This time, I would celebrate my birthday on top of a mountain (again), climb up most of the mirador/viewpoints around this very scenic city, revisit my favorite trails, chocolate shop and friends and eat a chunk of the world's largest egg--yum! When I'd last visited in autumn's May, I'd left a day pack with my hostel friends with plans to return in a week or two. However, the Chilean Volcano Puyehue, just over the border, erupted as I was about to return. It blanketed the Argentine Lake District in up to 2 feet of lung-choking ash, and I changed direction. It would be nine months before I'd return--oops. While the ash had been ... read more