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Lemons into Lemonade – Lanin Attempt

Day 1 – Travel Day The next destination after Frey Hut was Lanin, a 3700m volcano at the border between Chile and Argentina. Our group was to leave…

Frey Hut – Day 2 & 3

Up at 8 for a breakfast of oatmeal and a few coffees to jolt the system. The main objective for the day was to ski Monk’s couloir. The…

Frey Hut – Day 1

A day later than planned, our group made our way to Frey Hut (Refugio Emilio Frey) on Tuesday, Sept 2nd. The hut sits south west of the Cerro…

La Laguna – Warmup Day

Sunday, Sept 1. This was supposed to be day 1 of our guided group’s trip to Frey Hut. However, the weather had a different plan. A small storm…

Bariloche – Primera Semana

I just returned to civilization and internet access from a multi-day ski trip to Frey Hut so I’m completing this update a little later than intended. Tuesday, August…

Volcan Chillan Nuevo

The guides picked me up at the lodge at a respectable 9AM on Thursday, Aug 22nd. We were going to use the ski lifts to bypass quite a…

Al Sur

Tuesday, Aug 20th was to be the day I made my way down south. My first destination being the Volcan Chillan and the ski resort Nevados de Chillian…

Graffiti en Santiago

In walking around various neighbourhoods of Santiago I have noticed that there is a lot of graffiti/street art. Everything from inane tags to pretty amazing art. It seems…

Night time walk about of downtown Santiago

My second day in Santiago started slowly as a slept in rather horribly late. It kicked off around 1PM with a visit to the local BGC office (a…