Unofficial Andes

Here is a good article from the New York Times on skiing in Bariloche.

WHENEVER summer rolls around, I start thinking about snow. The Rocky Mountains may have melted, but I knew that somewhere below the equator — in the impossibly distant, sexy and expensive ski resorts of the Andes — the lucky ones were strapping on a snowboard, freshly fallen powder under their toes.

It didn’t help that my old college buddy Dan, a hard-core skier, would call me up each June and egg me on. It’s too far away, I would tell him, too extravagant. And anyway, I had a full-time office job. Finally, in the time-honored tradition of a ski bum, I quit my job. So last June, I called Dan. To explain my change of heart (and my financial situation), I invoked Argentina’s 2002 economic crisis, which had made the country affordable, even for unemployed snowboarders. Dan didn’t need much convincing.

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