Cerro Catedra, South Americas largest ski resort is located 19km from Bariloche, sweet, thats a 30 minute drive tops! Hmm, that’s if everyone had their chains on, and/or knew how to drive in a heavy snow fall… Oh well, that’s not the case so we sat back, relaxed and watched the chaos.
A little delayed, but safe and sound we made it up and were ready to hit some fresh powder.
But wait, due to the heavy snow (and it kept on dumping) they just had to dig out the lifts first!
Fortunately, only half of the system was snowed in, and we had plenty of snow to play in until they had found the rest of the lifts.
We found an open field with untouched snow, we just had to traverse over to the next peak. Traverse over is a piece of cake for skiers, but a pain for boarders. Magnus gave Geico one of his poles to help keep the hight and speed, but Geico still didn’t make it all way and dropped down early. Magnus was happy anyway, now he got a chance to show us how they use to ski with just one pole back in the 19th century.
One more powder day down, 4 out of 4, not bad at all!
We had a bunch of things to take care of after the mountain today, me and Danny are heading back to US tomorrow so we had get our things together, go to the supermarket to pick up snacks, find the bus station where our bus will leave from tomorrow, get a postcard for my grandfather, get some chocolate, shower, check email and flight reservations and play dominoes. All in this order and it had to be done before 9pm, we had dinner reservations and were told that if we were 5 minutes late we would loose our table.
We hit the supermarket on our way down from the mountain, drove around for a while trying to find the bus station when we realized that all that time we had was not gonna be enough!
Change of plans… lets find a postcard and the bus station tomorrow! It would be a bummer not to be able to buy chocolate, but I would still survive, let’s just get back to the hostel to shower and get our stuff together.
Quickly check e-mails and flights, no time for dominoes! Heading for the italian restaurant that we all were super excited about when we saw the big chocolate store was still open! Jackpot!
We fooled around for a while before we realized we’d loose our reservation and had to run the last few blocks to the restaurant.
Ice cream for dessert!
We found another irish bar and introduced Danny to the world of Pisco Sour.
Exclusive chocolate at 3:30 am, best thing ever!