SkiSickness

Yeah. I´ve been here in Farellones for two months. Three weeks to go, goddamn I miss Seattle and my woman. But life is good here, replete with a seemingly endless supply of meat cooked over fire.

I´ve skied a lot, and could post some pictures of that, but this is sweet, too.

At 5493m, Cerro Chimbote is one of the highest unclimbed mountains left in the Andes. Its extremely remote location on the Chile Argentina border and technical summit towers have kept its summit virgin. I really want to go back there, but there´s hardly any snow this year so I might try to come back to it later. Also in the same area, equally remote is the 6000m Volcán Tupungato.

Here´s a photo of Chimbote I snapped yesterday while touring around Valle Nevado. The approach used in this trip report http://www.perrosalpinos.cl/relatochimb ... chert.html starts from not too far from where this picture was taken. Its far. There are some canyons back there with roads but access it tightly controlled by mines. You could get permission ideally to shorten the trek, even to use snowmobiles. Chimbote is the lower (looking) peak on the right. To the left is Cerro Tronco (I think).




More linky.
http://www.andeshandbook.org/cerro.asp?codigo=385

Yo Drew,

Could a mountain that high get late-season blessings like (for example) routes on the north side of Rainier? Making a trip in another month or two possibly worthwhile? Or is that way off base? I could always head down there just to climb too....

Also, congrats on two strong showings at the comps down there. I'm going to embed this here even if you didn't. Way to giv'er.



Hope to see you soon.

Nice work on the flip and spins. Dang. Killing it. Dang cool peak as well!

Just saw the video, Drew. I think you're way more at home flippin and spinnin than diggin. Fun to watch. Keep it up- I look forward to hanging when you roll back into town.

Hmmmm. I think, tecnhically speaking of course, if one has the same or similar idea more than a few times in the course of a few days one might say that one has an interest in said idea. Drew- in a "normal" snow year, whatever that means down there, when would be a good bet on finding favorable conditions mixed with favorable weather in some of those remote areas? I'm guessing right about now, no? Who'm i kidding- it'll probably always be a crapshoot.......

Another image of the mountain since my photos are confusing... From andeshandbook.cl

As far as late storms making it all all right? I´m not sure, to be honest. I think not. This ain´t no maritime sticky icky. Best to just head south where they have record depths.

Just got back from a trip to some mountains south of here. Pics soon.

Have you considered commandeering some sort of mining equipment and penetrating deep into the terrain while carrying your ski equipment inside the corpses of dead cattle?

Make more nice pictures for us. I want to see some churripan.