Packing for the Trip

Well
It's hard to imagine that in three day I will be back to winter's cold. Right now it's sunny in Shasta, and swimming or paddling takes up my mind and energy, not packing for a ski mountaineering trip. While I've thought about skiing like all of us when we see the first of the leaves start to change up in the high country. The nights are getting cooler, while the days are still hot. Winter is getting closer. Here in the northern hemisphere it's late summer. But where I'm going it's late winter, and what I've been told a good winter. It snowed in Santiago, Chile last month. It hadn't done that in a decade or more!!! Hopefully our team will arrive in time for one last storm. The goal of the trip is to explore and do some ski pioneering in the Cerro Castillo mountains of central Patagonia. Over the next three weeks I will be reporting from our trip chronicling the adventure. With any luck we will have a little Chilean powder and corn with clear Sky's. But Patagonia is famous for its storms that come up from Antarica pounding the South American tip. Tell next time