Villa Angostura, Arg - Rocking up to white peaks in Villa was a sight for sore eyes. A skyline that is whistleresque puts me at ease and the sleepy town with its minature houses is Swiss enough to feel like home. Tommorrow will bring riding here in alpine bowls and forests. Villa is like something out of a C.S Lewis novel or dare I say J.R.R Tolken feature film. Gnomes and pixies dwell amoungst th

Mendoza, Arg - It pissed rain for the last two nights in Mendoza one of which I was in Las Lenas for, there it has snow nearly a meter now Im sure. Friends in Farellones report 160 cm in the HST there. Im head South tonight to Patagonia again, Bariloche, Villa, and Esquel in 11 days. Should be quite the trip. Seeing the snow here on the foothills beneath Vallecitos its hard to leave.

Uspallata, Argentina - Gathering food and money to weather a few more days out in some more remote spots in the pass  between Santiago and Mendoza the next stop is a refugio located at 3200m in Villa de las cuevas with tours into Chile from 4000m ridge tops, a little ways back 5500m Cerro Tres Gemelos looms over the tiny alpine village.

 After following the 40 north along the Andes to Vallectios  I wandered up amoungst summits from 3500 to 6000 m, awestruck I camped in a sheltered valley and enjoyed the distant hill  tops of mendoza. after a few days of touring it was time to move on to los penitentes,  where bou bou and I are the only people skiing from 4000m meters in perfect powder down 1100m descents. Living in one of the only places with snow in the andes, and having had a run that will be hard to beat this season I feel that this month long hedonistic pilgramidge to ski the little spots in a big way on a thin budget has finally paid off.

Chos Malal, Argentina - Cerro Walye is flat, thats my story and I'm sticking to it. It has a base elevation of roughly 2200m and peaks rising to over 3000m all around, it is a flat flat place.

Three small surface lifts drag a handful of skiers to an alpine ridge top which spills into ¨la hoyas¨ deep valleys carved into the mountain side. Across a barren landscape lies a large lake dotted with bright yellow grasses. Behind towers 4113m Volcan Tromen, offering 2000m ski runs through a maze of long frozen lava tubes.

las lenas is getting dumped on: http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Las-Lenas/6day/top

St. Bernard Pass

Verbier, Switzerland (home base) - Well things are winding up here. It's been well over two months and with some 20 days still to go it's not over yet. From Slovinia to Bulgaria, France, Italy and Switz it has been a blast. New zones like Ovrnez, Vicheres, Super St. Bernard, Vogel, Bansko and Crans Montana have all played host to a load off powder slashing, ski touring, and summit bagging not to mention freeride battling. Monks serving Montain tea, stektchy Bulgarian Airport pick ups, Milan and it's haut coutre, mythical Cham, sleepy Plans Mayens, and of course good ol' Verbier pretensious as it is but big and beggin to be ripped. Besides, Mont Gele may be one of the best lifts on the face of the planet; good to till the last drop after it's two hiatus. They offically quite spinning the lifts here on the 27th of April, but the rest of the four valley system closes on the 20th. Cham is open well into May, but it looks like I'm headed to the coast range to catch the end of the BC season. Alsaka if I'm lucky. I'll be back in December to finally get a taste of the early season in the Alps butI can't help feeling that I still have much unfinished business here. Something, I guess, which is only the product of spending more time here and more fully realizing the potential. Ps. It's snowing....

Quicksilver Freerdie Battle - Vogel, Solvenia

From Feb 21st till the 24th the Red Bull Powder Kick will be held at the Bulgarian resort of Bansko near Sophia. The best Bulgarian Freeriders will go head to head against the world for a cash purse of 3500 euro. May the best win!

Lima, Peru - Six months.....and how the time flies when your having fun. San Jose, Jaco, Montazuma, Santa Teresa, Guiones, Ostional, Playa Grande, Popoyo, Madera, El Rio Colorado, and Granda. Just a few of the spots I've passed through in the last month - I came back to the breaks.

Bought a board and sold it, rented two cars and ralleyed them, took six flights, and now looking to the future, to the powder. What will the winter bring; europe and beyond only time will tell.

LaninparklotParque Nacional Lanin, Arg - In Maupuche the word Lanin means the dead. I skied off the top of 3776m Volcan Lanin, 'the dead', three days ago on one of the warmest days of the spring yet. The wind was blowing probably 60k on the summit but even so the ski run down had awesome corn and a bit of powder at the top.  Lanin is the highest peak in the Lake Distirct and is climbed totally within Argentina even though it is a boarder peak. As such it commands an excellent view of what is northren Patagonia.