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Skiing Southern Hemisphere
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NZ, Chile, or Argentina im looking for BC skiing, anyone skied at these places and which is the best for BC?
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Never been to the Southern Hemisphere but I've heard good things about NZ
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probably chile, valle nevado has uge terrain, bigger than whistler if i remeber correct
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The only thing i've heard about NZ is that Snow Park is there, which is all park, so no BC. And there are 2 outher mountains that i know of.. Fakkapappa or something, and another. They're volcanos i think, so they must be gnar. As for Chile and Argentina, i've seen/heard amazing things from there. like isn't Las Lenas in Argentina? And Portillo Chile? check them.
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new zealand has backcountry believe me, i just assume chile has more
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Argentina, Las Lenas is the best opetion for BC for sure, that's what everybody goes there for. the chilean border is a few kilometers away so not that hard to get to as well, do both.
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nz will probably be the best, they have massive jagged-ass mountains & if you get a motorhome, you can just drive around & pay $15/day to ski at a club field with 1 tbar, 2000 ft of vert and lots of pow
plus nz'ers speak english (kinda)
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agreed, they can both be accessed with a couple days travel, I like portillo better then las lenas. But then again its like comparing a ferrari to a lamborgini, they are both fucken nice.
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Im trying to get out to Las Lenas this summer. From what Ive read it has the best terrain out there.
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ya, NZ would be cool but the shit in Chile is off the chain. Watch just about any Warren Miller movie.
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my friend trains (for racing) down in argentina during the summer and he says it is awesome, but i would rather go to NZ because people down there speak english, and you could ski with some hobbits.
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wouldnt you fall off he earth since youre upside down in the southern hemisphere?
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