Snow in Argentina: where it falls, when, and what the mountains are actually like.
Everything, in one list
The snowpack
The Andes here depend on a small number of Pacific storms a season, which is why a quiet decade shows up as a measured deficit rather than a bad week.
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A dry warm wind coming down the lee of the range, and what it does to a snowpack in a day.
The steep end of the argument
The steepest lift-served terrain in South America sits above one chair, and how often it runs is the whole story of the place.
The signature
Two thousand kilometres of range, and a season that starts and ends at different times along it.
Nine lift-served mountains sit on this line. Six are plotted here at their real coordinates. Vallecitos and Batea Mahuida sit inside the same two provinces as their neighbours, and La Hoya is the last one before the map goes quiet for roughly 1,300 kilometres.
Between Esquel and Ushuaia there is nothing on this list at all. That gap is most of what the column has to say.
The largest resort in the region has a city at its foot, which changes what it is for.
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