Riding the Andes

High altitude, good powder, stunning scenery. That is what it is all about. We went on a mission to snowboard in the andes, and by hook or by crook we made it.

After hanging out with the whales in Puerto Madryn we left Patagonia for the Argentinian lake district and the slopes of Bariloche. But as with the lake district on the Chilean side we ended up with just lots and lots of rain. All we could do is watch football (and with 3 matches a day - we could do a lot of that)

But our dream of boarding was washing away, along with the time we had left here in South America, so we had to head north to the most exclusive of resorts, Las Leñas, tucked away in the middle of the Andes, 400km from Mendoza and a long way away from anything else. 24hrs of travelling, 5 of which were in a cafe at some ungodly hour in the morning, took us to this windswept, treeless paradise of snow.

We managed to get 2 great days on the slopes, and we had an absolute blast. We couldn´t stop smiling. We managed to hurt almost every muscule in our bodies and we have bruises in the most suprising of places, but we wish we could have stayed longer.