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Hello Skiers and Riders!
Greetings and from the Powder South family. We wish you the best during 2017, and hope you are as excited as we are for the upcoming heli-season. This will be our 14th season in operation sharing the magic of the southern Andes and we can’t wait to share it with you!
Last season we enjoyed another standout heli-ski season. As our operation specializes in remote heli-skiing you never have to worry about searching for fresh lines. Our world-class staff operates at the highest level and is here to bring you the best days of your life. The terrain we explore is some of the best in South America, and whether you enjoy a week-long trip or a three-day excursion with us we’re happy to cater to our guests and create unmatched memories in the mountains. We have terrain options suitable for every level of skier, not to mention the incredible food and cultural experiences that accentuate our trips.
After more than 30 years of exploring the Andes we know we have found an area worthy of a world-class description. Operating at the peak of the North American summer, from our traditional Chilean lodge, to the Patagonia style BBQ’s we host, our heli-ski adventures are unmatched for the balance of relaxation and prime ski time we offer our guests. Part of our crew enjoyed a fantastic ski expedition to Antarctica last month where many of the top personnel in the ski industry spoke to us about our operation and visiting us this upcoming season. If you’re dreaming of several thousand feet of perfect powder skiing we hope you’ll come join us between June and October of this year.
As always please don’t hesitate to reach out to us with any questions and we’d be happy to send you a brochure or even a dvd detailing the unique heli-ski experiences we offer. Our website is full of great information as well, showcasing beautiful pictures of the incredible terrain we have access to ski, as well as our first class accommodations, and the opportunities you have to visit us for the best ski experience of your life in either Chile or Argentina
POWDER SOUTH HELI-SKI GUIDES is happy to announce The PUMA LODGE will be joining our Powder South Heli-Ski program in the Chilean Central Andes this season. This is great news for our Powder South heli-skiers and heli-boarders, incorporating more world-class heli-ski terrain and après-ski luxury into Powder South’s repertoire to satisfy your ambition and desires while on your Powder South heli-ski adventure.
Puma Lodge is located due South, one valley over from our long standing base in the Maipo Valley. From Puma Lodge we can access 100’s of hectares of new high quality terrain.
We have only four spots left for the 2016 season and we’re offering them at a discounted price!
Winter has been incredible in Chile this season! We’re opening runs and peaks earlier than ever and the snow just keeps coming. We should have another 3 feet down in the next few days, book your trip now!
It just won’t stop down here! Another nearly 6ft of snow this week! Lines are coming in weeks early this year and we are getting into new terrain daily.
Conditions are all time and spots are filling fast.
We’re in the midst of another large El Niño spawned storm! We’re measuring the snow totals in feet and there’s more to come.
We still have lots of openings in our heli-ski schedule for our trips in Chile and Argentina this summer, drop us a line and we can help you plan your trip today.
A huge snowstorm rolled through the Andes mountains of Chile and Argentina in early June and dropped up to 10-feet of snow in 7-days. This storm was the largest the region had seen since 1996 – that’s 20 years…
It’s not even June yet and Powder Fever is setting in! It’s time to get excited for our upcoming season. Check out the article that Snow Brains posted on Powder South.
The Andes Mountain Range in South America is the longest mountain range on Earth. It holds the highest mountains in world outside the Himalayas along with some of the best skiing and riding found anywhere. Sky-scraping 23,000-foot peaks, lava-spewing volcanoes, trenching fjords, calving glaciers, llamas, penguins, and powder during our summer. Lots and lots of powder.
Our friend Tom Winter wrote a great piece on Powder South featured in The Boulder Weekly in April 2016.
The mountains are the spine of the continent. They run for thousands of miles, in places jagged and impassible, in others friendlier, with passes guarded by large volcanoes that vent steam and spit lava. These are empty landscapes. Traveled by few, buffeted by storms. Exotic, yes, but also welcoming and closer than you think.
It’s hard to think about skiing and powder days and cold feet and runny noses in the middle of July. But when the temperature in Boulder starts to kiss 100, then perhaps it’s time to think and plan and dream a bit. To consider the unlikely journey south — south to the snow of the Chilean Andes.
We have some great and exiting news for this upcoming season. The heli-ski season in South America is less than two months away, and POWDER SOUTH Heli-Ski Guides and Owners are hard at work making preparations for the upcoming season.
We just got over a meter of snow last week in the Andes and we have more snow coming! it is only April and predictions are looking very positive for Powder South this winter.
New for 2016, we are operating out of the VIK Lodge for private heli-ski trips ONLY this first season due to the high end nature of these accommodations.
The lofty heights, scenic landscapes and futuristic designs will take you to another world.
Perched on a hill top in the midst of an 11,000 acre estate, VIK Lodge in Chile is the cutting-edge, James Bond-esque design masterpiece of Alexander Vik and his wife Carrie, along with renowned Architect Marcelo daglio. Hovering in your carbon fiber hammock-style bathtub in the VIK suite after skiing great powder all day long, you can gaze out across the Lodge own private vineyard, over the rolling foothills of the Millahue Valley and out towards the snow-capped peaks you have just skied!
We skied a bit south of our previous operation in vast and overwhelming great terrain,where we have access to thousands of hectares of unlimited terrain, most of this terrain is still unexplored, so you will be doing first descents and naming runs! This is an amazingly vast mountain region offering a wide variety of perfect heli-skiing terrain. Every run is surrounded by a breathtaking backdrop of 5,000-meter peaks.
We have the benefit of a maritime snowpack, which is light and dry due to the high altitude, synonymous with champagne powder at its best. Snow accumulation comes from the Pacific Ocean, a mere 100 miles (160 km) west of the Andes. Flying conditions are best during winter due to an almost zero thermal reduction, which keeps the cumulus clouds away and leads to an abundance of clear days.
Historically Powder South average is 5 days of skiing out of 6 days in a week of skiing.
Powder South Heliski strongly recommends that you enroll with Global Rescue prior to your South American heli-ski adventure.
