Member jiveassmother

You are going to have a great time. My biggest piece of advice would be to bring a board bag with wheels. There were four of us that traveled for a month and the two of us with wheels had a much easier time getting around town and on the bus system. The sun is also intense that far south so high spf is primo. Tear it up down there!

We hiked up Villarica and snowboarded down with our resort boards out of Pucon but there was people skinning up as well. We were there in September. I have photos but I don’t have any web hosting place to put them up.

I’m in Anchorage and with a new job I am looking to ride on Monday and Tuesday. Anyone else have an off schedule and down to head to the hills?

I use a few different types of gloves depending on how warm it is out. I tend to alternate with and without gloves on the way up. Every time my hands start to heat up I take them off and clip them to my chest strap for a bit.

The types of gloves I really like are the REI One Gloves which are soft shell type gloves and the OR PL 150 gloves which…[Read more]

I bought a new board bag for a trip to Chile recently because we didn’t have a car there and I wanted one with wheels so I could walk further to the hostels from the bus stations. I bought the DaKine Low Roller and I really like it. The website says that it weights 7 lbs. It has bigger wheels on it than my friends and rolls really well. It also…[Read more]

I was just in the same boat you are in now. I had been eye balling a split board for two years and this year the sale was finally perfect for me to make the investment. I normally ride a Burton Custom X 160 and ended up purchasing the Prior BC 165 because it had the width most similar to my Custom X that I love. I have been riding for quite a few…[Read more]