Cerro Catedral

Thursday August 7th,

We went up to Cerro Catedral today after finding a ride up. It's a beautiful area and very touristy for sure. Looks really good after all the snow we got last night, all the trees are covered in snow and are a nice contrast against the huge lake. The ski area itself is super busy!! We wait in line for our tickets, we wait in line for almost an hour to get on the first chair, get up to the top and then wait in line some more to ski the few chairs that are open. The terrain is a bit more mellow at the ski area here than at Las Lenas, but the sorrounding mountains look awesome. Not many of the chairs are open which is dissapointing, we ski as much as we can handle with the loads of people and aggressive lines - you have to be real pushy or never make it onto the chair! It was a beautiful sunny day and we did get to ski fresh snow though, it just wasn´t quite as nice as the snow we did find in Las Lenas. Tomorrow we are going to look for some backcountry skiing, we've had enough of paying for lifts that don't open.