Circuito Bichos is a Ski and Snowboard competition tour in Chile, a bit more focused on freestyle than racing, all for boys and girls Under 18. A couple of days they ago they did the annual awards ceremony, with a bunch of activities at Mallsport, and a bunch of prizes for everybody … good to see stoked kids!.

Long weekend here in Chile and everybody escaped from Santiago. 2+ million people going somewhere, in my case, to the coast. One late afternoon decided to check what’s new around the most touristic walk around of Valpo, Stairs ups and down, photo, photo, coffee and back to Viña. Impressed with how popular and developed this are is getting, definitely worth it to check out, like Paris but from Southamerica … kind of.

I’m not going explain too much details, but students of all levels here in Chile are demanding a better education system to the government. As a result of this we’ve seen many parades, strikes and other forms of protest, like this set of paintings/graffitis at the Universidad of Concepcion.

After arriving to Santiago I did a quick trip to the south. There was plenty of snow there, always cool to spot possible new lines as well.

Coming not so fresh out of the plane from NZ, landed right into this small design exhibition in Santiago. Some cool stuff, I liked all the wood related work, this stuff should be more often and bigger. Here’s some snaps of the featured designs.

2 days before leaving to New Zealand, I had the chance to ride El Colorado, sunny fun day with the crew, they have plenty of snow and the first resort to get some features ready in the park.

After I don’t know how long since my last post here we go again. Somehow I got involved in a couple of projects I can’t show publicly yet, but I’ve been busy, helping in a mag, maintaining a website and learning lots about video. These are some shots of one of those projects, I can’t show the final product but soon I’ll do another edit to give an idea of what it was.

Second weekend in Santiago and I’m off to the beach, this time for the last stop of the Kitesurf Tour 2011 in Pupuya, few minutes south from Matanzas. Good day for everybody but my photo gear: sand + wind is not a good combo. Here’s some pics and video, thanks to Wetfly for the invite.

Back in Chile, end of the winter season for me and straight to summer, on the first weekend back in Santiago I got asked to cover the first stop of the Flow Tour 2011 at the Wave House in Mall Sport. Here’s some pics and video.