Sunday, September 24, 2006

Boarding The Land Of Fire...


Today I snowboarded at the most southerly ski resort in the world, Cerro Castor, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego.
The landscape here is unbelieveable. You have a real feeling of being at the end of the world, thousands of miles of grey freezing ocean surrounds white craggy mountains seperated by giant U shaped glacial valleys.
There is deep snow even lower down than the first ski lift which is at 190 meters! The snow here is perfect even though it is late spring, and once again totally empty pistes.
Ushuaia is also a major Husky dog breeding area, so tommorrow night we go on a BBQ and Husky dog sleigh ride through the forests.
We will probably stay here snowboarding for a week.
Sams angioderma and hives improved since last night, she spent today in bed again just to make sure she was feeling totally better, so hopefully she will be able to come up the mountain tomorrow. We are trying not to get too excited though as it has come back worse after getting better before.
Wicked place!

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do you remember when you built an igloo? Bet you could built a good one out there!!

12:43 PM  
Blogger Chris said...

Before anybody says that the photos are amazing, ...we didnt take either of them.

12:44 PM  
Blogger Chris said...

Ohhhhh the igloo. Even if i do say so myself, that was a dam fine house.

12:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I guessed you didn't take the photos :-) The one with the huskies has logo and writing on it and the other one just looks like a postcard. btw - the huskies are gorgeous, I bet Sam wants one.

12:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

mind you, your photography has nothing to envy ... some of your photos have been really fantastic.
keep them coming!

8:16 PM  

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