PUCON

We arrived in Pucon after a really nice 11 hour busride. For like €15 you have the busride, food and a man who puts a blanket over you. Francois (the french guy who organised the whole week and shaped the course) piked us up at the busstation and drove us to our cabanja. We changed into our snowboarding gear and Dorian came to pick us up and drive us to the Volcano. The drive up to the Volcano is a 4x4 adventure on it’s self.
On the Volcano you go up with a red chairlift and then there are 4 lifts, a park and a BX track.
The first day it was misty but we still had a good day. Our cabanja is really cool, there’s a little fireplace to warm it up and during the day a guy comes and does our beds, puts wood on the fire and even does our dishes!
The next day was blue skies, we shot some cool pics and had a really nice day of riding. Pucon is so beautiful so if you ever have a chance of going there; GO!
The following day it was blue skies againg but there was so much wind that the volcano was closed. Piollo and Isabel (the brasilian team) took us for a ride and showed us the beautiful spots around Pucon.
The wind was gone down and the moutain opened, we had a very nice day of riding. At night the wind came back and for the next three days it took over the mountain. But there is not sutch thing as getting boared in Pucon. The first day we went rafting. It was a very wild river and cold as hell but didn’t prevent us from a little swim. After that we were obiously cold and drove to Los Pozones. These are natural hotsprings that are heated by the vulcano. This was heaven for our cold bodies hehehe After that we fell a sleep like babies.
We woke up discovering is was closed yet again. So we went for a hike in a national forest. The forest, lakes, waterfall and most of all the view are so beautiful! We hiked for 3 hours till we came to a point where we didn’t know if we were still on the trail. The snow was knee deep and we were making the track and other groups followed it. We didn’t make it to the top but we were really close!
Our last day it snowed so we chilled out, ate the biggest hamburger in our life, drunk some pisco sour and hoped on the bus to Santiago.
The world cup update will be next!

CHILE

We packed our bags, said goodby to our friends, mom, kneus and our dog and we we’re off to the airport. The plan is visiting our Dad in Florida, get over the jetlag and fly on to Chile. After spending some nice hot days in Florida we we’re off to Chile. The flight started of with some delays and finished with a detour to Conception befor arriving in Santiago. In Santiago Sonja and Sebas were ready to pick us up and drive us to the mountains. After 40 hairpin turns we finally arrived in Farallones, a little place under Valle Nevado, where we would stay untill the World Cup started.

Farallones is a little town with tiny houses and a lot of dogs running around. We stayed in a little refugio with some locals. The refugio was not so nice but the view made up for it! The sunset is so beautiful there, looking out on the mountains and Santiago.

The first night we were already invited to a BBQ where we ate some really good meat and drunk the drink of Chille: Pisco.

The first day we went snowboarding in El Colorado (the slopes that belong to Farallones) and it was killing. Because you’re up so high you feel your legs get tired so fast.

The next day we walked down to the main road up to Valle Nevado and hitch hiked our way up. Valle Nevado looks like a french skifactory there are two hotels and two other buildings, that’s it. The slopes are very nice and its pretty big. There is a cool park, pipe and a boardercross track. The sun was buring all day long and we rode the whole day so we thaught that we deserved a bier. ;)

We met a brasilian girl who rides BX and she told us about a nice place called Pucon that also has a park and stuff. Because we wanted to see more of this beautiful country we decited to go. So one day later we we’re on a bus…

You’ll hear how awesome Pucon is the next update!

Seeeeee Ya

Greetz BNB