foreign hey I'm Emily and usually I travel in my van with my husband Danny my cat gram
and my dog sabrita but this time it's just gonna be me some Rita and Graham because
unfortunately Danny had to head back to the U.S for his grandma's funeral the last time
I was on my own I just stayed at a campground the whole time and this time I'm not feeling
it I'm super tired of this city I'm hoping to go a bit north to Portillo to ski and
maybe hit a hike with the pets let's head up to the mountains together you wanna drive baby
all right somebody to take us up no sleeping on the job so I am finally out of the city and that
that crazy driving it was like six or seven exits but wow driving in Santiago is so hard
and it's even harder when I don't have a navigator sitting next to me and being and
helping me like is this the turn is this a turtle so I did make all the turns though
we're stopping here for a second so that the van fan can shut off it can
take a break hopefully it'll shut off in a minute
oh it just shut off okay vamos oh no the road is blocked by a huge thing of snow there's no
way we're getting past this well I love this spot that we found here even though this the
road was blocked by snow I just decided to turn around and Camp right next to kind of the snow
block I turned around which is something that we always do whenever we're in a wild campsite is to
make sure that we have easy access to leave so if I needed to leave very quickly I have
my driver's side seat still facing forward and I can just close the door and head out
love this spot it's such a beautiful place over here some Frita has just been running it around
in the snow which she loves Grandma's enjoying his outside time but also staying super close to me
we didn't plan on you know Danny leaving or anything like that so I we weren't going to
go to Portillo at all so I decided that I'll come over here but I was gonna do a hike that's
down this road in a park up to a glacier and I saw that someone else did it in June
but they must have not had a lot of snow yet I guess this is not the right time to be hiking
he's just following me around but I am definitely gonna go skiing I read on my Overlander that you
can't stay there for very long in the van like maybe only one night so I might only get one night
but one night does mean two days so this is a cool little road trip I'm taking myself and I'm glad I
got out here instead of just waiting in the city so our friend that we went skiing with the first
time we went up on my birthday in El Colorado he gifted us this wax and it's for all temperature
his friend actually owns the stores I'll show you how I've been using it on my snowboard
I think I'm more used to at this point a little bit deeper snow especially out of
bounds I I guess I haven't been paying attention a lot if I looking for rocks so I did mess up my
board a little bit I'm just trying to make the bottom of the board a little bit more
smooth well I'm gonna head up to Portillo early so I'll see you guys in the morning
good morning I'm already dressed up for the ski mountain so I made myself a veggie egg burrito
with green chilies that Danny's parents brought from the US I love hatch green chilies so I've
been eating them with basically everything of course they were the canned ones because you
can't really take the real ones through security oh man yeah last night I didn't sleep very well
I think it was mostly because Danny's plane was delayed so much that he left yesterday at eight
o'clock and he didn't get to Spokane until last night at midnight a really really long time he's
been traveling and I guess I was kind of worried about him so it wasn't terrible but yeah I'm gonna
head over to Portillo soon this veggie egg is made out of garbanzo bean flour the garbanzo
bean flour is all right but I really prefer just egg that they have in the US they just
don't have it here that one's the best this one's all right though it has protein and it tastes good
especially with green chilies so I'm just gonna eat it anyways let's get to the ski mountain
all right we just passed curved 10. going up this hill it's I really like how they number
the curves this road is absolutely insane on my Google Maps uh and I didn't mention it before
but I am literally a stone's throw away from Argentina we'll be able to see Argentina from
the ski mountain so all of these trucks are coming from Argentina probably Santiago and yeah this is
like a major trade route right here going up to Portillo and so I am like I've only seen one other
personal car and I'm not even a personal car like you know I'm a big old van so it's pretty funny
that just surrounded by 200 trucks going up this really crazy curvy road so right here you can see
that the run this is this this is a part of the ski area and the Run goes over this tunnel and
there's a chair lift it's groomed oh cool so yeah maybe I'll able to do that go all the way down
this long long run there's definitely no fresh snow so yeah we'll have to see what happens we'll
see how the conditions are up here we're coming up on the ski lift again that goes all the way down
this huge hill but as you can see the snow isn't very good here so I'm not sure how it's gonna be
getting down that I really don't want to be riding over a bunch of rocks or having to walk at all
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I have ever seen snow does it looks pretty good I mean there are obvious
rocks right next to these obvious rocksters not so obvious rocks so I might not divert
from the Corduroy and here Portillo is the famous four person button that just
really sends it up this hill Oh what do you think made those little marks little bunny
bye
I decided to start where we could see the lake I don't know if I'll be able to see
the lake over here and I thought that is one of the reasons I'm here it's just a beautiful
view of the lake so yeah let's see what it's like over on this side it looks a little bit
bigger a little bit more coverage but honestly kind of hard to get from one side to the other
I'm not quite sure why there's no signs yeah a little bit disorganized still just happens to be
skiing I mean the view makes up for everything I think you can do a lot a lot of out of bounds
the lifts take you to places that you can leave yeah let's try out this side family
check out the view from up here it's so weird snowboarding by myself I'm
just like doing laps I don't have to wait or like oh do you want to go this way or
that way it's just like me by myself like all right let's do two lips on that one
two lips on this one and I'm almost done every lift here so maybe I'll be lopping
this one it's pretty awesome and there's the Argentinian border just right there
it's crazy how close I am I could just hop on into another country right this second foreign
that felt really good my favorite run yet so I think I'll Loop this a
couple of times super fun checking out this mountain with you guys
and they're just Just Trucks trying to go to Argentina
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for a second say hello to some aunts and uncles now I'm gonna have some lunch here there's a ton
of people on foot rolling up so I'm kind of happy that I took a break for a while I'm having some
pesto pasta with soy chicken almonds and walnuts oh I also put more green chilies in it of course
hey it's been an awesome day here I decided to sleep in quite a bit
because then I could get a half day pass the half day pass ended up being 33
000 pesos the normal price is 41 so I started at noon it's okay to go later in the day because then
the sun can hit the snow for a little bit longer and mush it up a bit I'm glad I slept in because
when I was wild camping out there I didn't really get that much sleep I got to catch up on sleep and
I made a friend she was actually camping right next to me in the parking lot if you guys won't
believe this she's from Spokane where Danny's from even weirder is that we have a mutual friend that
we met in the Galapagos that she met while she was in Alaska it's a very small Mountain so it's
easily explorable pretty quick and I decided to call it quits after four hours figured I would
let somebody out go for a walk with her it's been super fun hanging out with a new friend she has
friends here that she also met around Alaska over on Danny's front I did get to watch the funeral
on Zoom he is actually staying longer than we thought because one of the ceremonies got moved
which is good because then he can do everything he needs to make to help himself feel better this
um ski mountain is kind of different it's got a huge beautiful expensive and always booked
up Hotel there's no condos or anything around it it's really just Hotel guests that are here come
from the day from Santiago super far so you would still have to stay in a nearby town so because of
it being really just a hotel with a ski mountain they don't really like Vans it costs so much to
stay here and they want us to pay to stay here I already had to move once because they were like oh
the owner doesn't like to see you guys sleeping out front usually they say like you can't sleep
here because we have to plow or something like that not like you can't stay here because we
want you to pay it's just such an amazing view here so I'm gonna pack up the van I'm heading
to he's friends with her so that'll be fun and let's see what Danny's doing well you know I'm
up here in the states for a bit of a sad reason of family event I was able to bring the bike though
and I just was able to hit my favorite skate park in the world here Hilliard Skate Park
Spokane Washington check out a couple Cliffs here that was a sick little sesh thank you
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there's time around
so awesome to see this whole other part of skiing it's really inspired me to try
bath country but first I'll have to take a safety course I don't really know why I
haven't tried it before I really love hiking and I love skiing so naturally it should be
a new hobby for me so somebody that is so confused by the gang I'll split up
big announcement I picked up Danny Denny's back in the van and we're getting out of Santiago I'm
so excited to be leaving this we're heading south we're going to go chase some snow into
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