Esquiar!

Well, yesterday was the big ski trip to Valle Nevado. It was absolutely amazing. The views were incredible- good thing, or else it wouldn't have been worth all the money (super-expensive! especially considering we had to rent skis and coats and all that) or the ride there (almost 2 hours to Santiago, and then over 2 more in a bus already completely full of people but then also with all of our skis, boots, etc.) It was a nice place, lots of slopes, but I found the slope-selection for beginner/intermediate to be not so great. There were a couple more intermediate that looked interesting, but you had to ride a pulley lift (like where you sort of sit on it, with your feet on the ground, and ski up the hill) up to them, and the lifts were along advanced courses, so if you fell off, you either have to walk up in your skis like a couple girls did or ski the advanced. I didn't want to risk that! It was pretty amazing all the same, and I'm glad I went!


Crazy lifts! They were really long, and really steep in parts- this one finishes by going up a cliff!


wow!


You might want to click on this one to see it bigger. Its a pasted-together panoramic of the view from the slope I skied a lot. This is the closest to getting an idea of what it looked like really being there- way too much to capture in a single photo.