This photo is from Las Lenas, Argentina.
If you’ve ever been to Las Lenas you know you could get skunked on weather very easily.
Let alone new snow, the wind can hammer any snow you’re lucky enough to get regardless.
It allowed us to explore a little bit.
We found this zone in particular.
Chair is called the Marte lift.
It’s basically heli skiing from a lift.
Probably the best single chairlift in the world on the right day.
Well guess what…?
Stable snowpack, about 3 feet of new snow over the last 4 or 5 days.
And we were first in line.
Bluebird two foot pow day, no wind, open Marte chair in Las Lenas Ski Resort?
We instantly knew we were heading straight to this zone.
Once to the zone, it’s about a 45-minute boot up to the access point for this line.
However with the deep new snow, it was a bit of a struggle.
But again, for the entire hike we had the view of the pristine spire zone.
The new snow and wind had packed in the natural jump delightfully.
Oh man I wanted to get there and fast.
But one step at a time.
I kept eyeing the landing zone… it literally just went and went.
Then my eyes would look up to how much speed could i possibly get?
I wanted to swan dive flip this spire for days!
And I was going to.
No one around to bogart it.
And 36"+ of snow just fell on top of it.
So it was about 200 yards of perfect landing zone and a perfect natural booter.
I stamped out the in-run a little bit up top so I could muster up the most speed possible.
The most possible speed I could possibly get.
Adam was ready I was ready…. “ten seconds!”.
I jump and point my skis straight down the in-run.
I pick up speed fast…!
I am hauling ass.
I approach the jump and pop off the air.
I feel like a ski jumper but I hold the swan dive instead of the ski jumper body.
No stress, if you need anything I’ll be over here swanning .
It’s all good.
After this air, Billy Poole teed off.
Long live the Marte!
This photo ran as an opening two-page spread in Skiing Magazine.
Big ups Las Lenas, Adam, Goose, and my man Billy Poole.
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