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Three Lodges at Powder South in 2017!

January 26, 2017 by Powder South

Puma Lodge • Altiplanico Lodge • Vik Lodge

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.

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4 spots left for August 20-27 2016!

August 16, 2016 by Powder South

We have only four spots left for the 2016 season and we’re offering them at a discounted price!

Week #9 – August 20-27th

Semi Private Guided Trip

  • Sale Price – $10,000USD / skier
  • Regular Price – $12,600USD / skier
  • Full group of 4 required for this special

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Another 80cm of snow this week!

July 25, 2016 by Powder South

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!

Book Now

chile-powder

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71″ of Snow this week!

July 15, 2016 by Powder South

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.

chile powder skiing

Conditions are all time and spots are filling fast.

Book Now

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Another Massive Storm Pounds Chile!

July 11, 2016 by Powder South

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.

chile snow forecast

If you want the best ski conditions possible for your heli-skiing trip, this is the season!

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.

Book Now

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Largest Snowstorm Since 1996 Closes Major South American Mountain Pass for 15-Days

June 19, 2016 by Powder South

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…

Read more…

Giant snowstorm in Chile

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Snow Brains Article on Powder South

May 17, 2016 by Powder South

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.

snow-brainsThe 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.

Read Full Article…

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Powder South Featured in Boulder Weekly

May 3, 2016 by Powder South

Our friend Tom Winter wrote a great piece on Powder South featured in The Boulder Weekly in April 2016.

boulder-weekly-cover-042116The 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.

Read the entire article.

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Huge Snowfall in April!

April 27, 2016 by Powder South

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.

Powder Skiing

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 lodge south of Santiago

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!



New Terrain Accessed from the VIK Lodge

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.

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Thanks for a great season in the Andes!

October 1, 2015 by Powder South

dropping-in-to-south-american-powder

Well, it was incredible while it lasted. The 2015 heli-skiing season has ended for us at POWDER SOUTH, and we want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who joined us in Chile and Argentina for one of the best winters in years. Late this season, that list even included world-renowned big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton, who, not surprisingly, can rip a snowboard as well.

laird hamilton snowboarding in chile

2015 was highlighted by a handful of enormous storms that dumped multiple meters of snow on the central Andes. If you were here, you know it was one of the best sustained powder stretches on record. And now for the best part: meteorologists are predicting four more El Niño winters for South America, so chances are good that the conditions will be similar through 2019. Let’s hear it for Ullr!

Beyond the snow, 2015 was a special year for us as we opened the Uco Valley base in Argentina. The lure of unskied lines had us salivating, and although we had to fly farther and higher than anticipated sometimes, the reward was true exploration. Next year, we plan to add more hours of flight time to the Uco Valley heli packages to reflect the unique terrain around our base lodge.

On a related note, we have some exciting news to share: We are in the process of finalizing two more bases south of the Central Andes (but not too far south), one in Chile and one in Argentina. Each is surrounded by spectacular skiing and snowboarding potential. In light of their pending addition, if you book a trip for next season, we will allow you to move your trip to one of the new locations later, if you wish to explore the new terrain.

heli skiing- in chile

A quick update on prices:

They are staying the same for now — if you book a 2016 trip, you will pay the same as you did last year. That won’t be the case forever (there will be about a 10 percent increase soon), so now is a good time to save some money if you want to fly with us next season.

Until next time…

That’s it from us at POWDER SOUTH. Thank you again for a wonderful season, and we hope to see you next year! And feel free to send us photos or stories from your experience this winter, at powder@heliskiguides.com.

Argentina ski lodge party

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