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The terrain there really looks incredible, great pics.

Plenty of convex rollovers as well to serve as weak spots in a thin snowpack. There are lines on that mountain that look flat enough to be safe (lookers right to left on top of the spine/ridge with the cornices in the left third of the photo would be my preferred line), but I agree with Admin...

Thanks for adding this year's calendar, Tony. I have a hotel booked in Verbier for March 5-10, which looks like it should be pretty ideal crowd-wise. Only potential issue I see is non-North faces being in the awkward transition to spring snow--do you know how much of the best terrain faces north...

The Banana: Torrecillas from above, 3cm day: Torrecillas from below: The final Entre Rios run:

First time on Entre Rios this trip: Looking back at Entre Rios: Overview of Entre Rios: Collar, with a view of coverage on Marte prior to the storm we got:

A few photos from the trip. Manhattan from above: Manhattan from below: Manhattan from Marte: If you click on the photo, it rotates to right-side up Sombrero area, a few days after the last mini-storm, still fresh lines:

Collar has a Gasex installation in one spot, but it's backcountry terrain--the Gasex can't possibly control the entire bowl, and it shouldn't be assumed that the Gasex is in operation. The same goes for the frontside terrain--avalanche control is limited and may not be up to North American...

Today was why you come down here. Bluebird pow, no wind, Marte open from the start. We put in the first tracks down Eduardo Variante, the 2nd and 3rd in Errare Humane, and then had the run of a lifetime opening up Entre Rios. I've been sick so setting the boot pack was hard work, but over the...

There was a surprise few centimeters that fell last night, so I headed straight to Torrecillas hoping that more had fallen up there. It was even better than I hoped--boot deep blower. The rest of the mountain was sort of dust on crust, but with another sunny day forecasted tomorrow, I'm hoping...

True, but at least you can still access the best terrain off Sombrero and still get back to Vulcano. Today's my first down day. Everything except Marte is open, but given the cloudy skies and nothing but groomers available on the open terrain, I decided it wasn't worth it. Thus far, I haven't...

You can't ski to the Urano poma, so I've mainly traversed back to Vulcano.

Entre Rios is certainly my favorite mountain I've skied, such a great combination of spines and chutes. I'm now 6 for 6 on Marte being open. After destroying my feet on Entre Rios, I limited hiking the next day and skied a ton of untracked corn around the Sombrero area. Yesterday, I did a...

You can see part of Manhattan in that photo, it starts between the rocks just below where the blue line ends at the top of your skin. There is a bit more snow in the chute than last year though, judging by the photo. Today I hustled up Entre Rios first thing in the morning and ended up putting...

I'm back in Las Leñas for two weeks this year. Coverage is definitely less good than last year, and heavy rains up to the top of the Jupiter lift about a week before I arrived have left the lower mountain a bit thin. The Cenidor area all slid to the ground as a result of the rain and is...

That's actually my line from Monday. Thursday's was quite a bit more exciting. September 4th was a Cerro Martin day for me. I was planning to ski it with Tony, but given the Marte delay and the lack of cell reception on Collar, we missed the meet up time and I opted to do a few laps on Cerro...

Thursday was my return to Entre Rios and it was phenomenal. The shaded aspects of the spines were still winter powder, and except for a few icy turns near the bottom, the snow was excellent the whole way down. I'll respectfully disagree with Tony about Entre Rios being the Highlands Bowl of...

September 2nd was another shorter day for me as I did the 40 minute easy skin to El Collar and had perfect corn around 11:30am. I did a few Marte laps in the early afternoon, but the snow was getting heavy and I had plans to return to Entre Rios the next day, so I conserved some energy and...

Given how much I had hiked the previous day, I didn't get out early on September 1st when I saw the morning cloud layer. We only did two Marte laps all day, but the first one did include the fun, steep Amanitas Phalloide chutes:

August 31st was my biggest hiking day. I started the day by doing Torrecillas, seen below, although I couldn't get quite to the top because the bootpack got too deep. The snow didn't ski super deep, but it was powder. Instead of sessioning a booter that one of my friends built at the bottom...

Even though there was apparently rain to the top sometime on Friday/Saturday, I still got to Marte first thing on Sunday and was rewarded with a rare 9:30am opening with just 3 other skiers there. We decided to take the risk of sliding to our deaths on a rain crust and went straight to Eduardo...