Although 3 feet of fresh Chilean Powder isn't ideal for training, it's ideal to appease the mind and soul. During our training camp in La Parva we were lucky enough to get both decent Downhill and Super G training as well as some great days of powder skiing! After a big storm socked us in for a couple days we were antsy and ready to take advantage of the blue bird day and we charged the mountain as a team. Even though there are "no friends on powder days;" Marco Sullivan, Scott Macartney, Steven Nyman, Erik Fisher, Chris Beckman, Rewk Patton, and I stuck together for most of the day. After a few runs in bounds we decided to take our chances off piste and head over to some steeper and more challenging terrain in the Andes back country. It was so good we kept going back for more and I couldn't help but throw on the head cam and capture it.
The video is of our hike that took us above 10,000 feet and into some chutes and bowls you dream about on a powder day. The view was incredible and we could still see Santiago, Chile's capital, below. After a few runs we decided to stick around and do one more sunset run before dark. Enjoy...
