South America- Marte Opening

For those of you that don't know, there is a special chairlift at Las Lenas that accesses some of the best chairlift accessed terrain in the world. The importance of Marte, rivals that of the infamous KT-22 or even the Tram at Jackson Hole. When this lift is open it'll directly spill you off to a multitude of faces that reach 3000' vertical feet and a average steepness of 45º sustained for most of that 3 grand. It is simply some of the best pow shredding in the world. Not much in terms of cliff falling, but more than enough in terms of highspeed pow turns.

Well today Marte opened and I believe there was 12 people skiing it. Seriously. 12 people. The light wasn't great but the pow was stupendous. Greg and I shredded 7 laps on it and were absolutely exhausted after skiing more than 20,000 vert. I gotta say the Marte addiction just bit me in the ass

The infamous Marte. Yeah, I wasn't lying, there was literally 12 people skiing that day.






















The view from the top of the couloir Eduardo's down to the Village of Lenas below. Notice how the 7 story buildings of the village aren't even recognizable because we are so high above 'em. Crazy