Day 4

Today embarked my first turns of the trip as I headed towards Chapelco which sat thirty minutes from San Martin. The round trip cost less than $5 USD with the day pass added an ensurmountable $23.

At the top, you have a nice view of Volcano Lanin:




And a look to the east:




View towards the lake:




And with some nifty touching up skills:





Top 1/3 of the mountain was incredibly hard and cruddy with the middle 1/3 rather decent and the bottom 1/3 baked like spring break in Cancun with Bob Marley. I opted for some side/back country loving but got none of that. Snow was very sketchy and worse than typical spring conditions.


Some untracked lines to drool over:




Glimpse of my line (started on the left side of the ridge where the rocks become covered … head towards looker’s left and peeled back in where you see the slide … even if I hiked up for the lines in the middle, the snow was pretty awful):





I skied from 10 until 5 that day and the sun was not out of the clouds long enough to do anything to the top portion of the mountain which would have been sweet on a powder day (I guess I’ll have to see what Catedral brings forth).


Dinner that night was at El Regional and indulged in jabali` (wild boar). We didn’t know what it was at first, so when we asked the waiter, he pointed to his belt buckle which resembled a wolf. So until the next day when we were able to figure out what it was, I was thinking that I had just eaten wolf instead. It was a local dish so I wasn’t too worried:







We originally came here because of the local beer from El Bolson. Here’s the drink menu (if only I had more hours to spend sampling everything):




This is EASILY my new favorite beer. I was very tempted to take the couple hour detour to El Bolson to pick up a case if possible: