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.

Just before put my sled on storage for the season we had to go for one more mission, despite there was no new snow at all. Good fun anyway, new terrain and new challenges thanks to the dirt and hard pack snow. See you next year sled, I’ll miss you.

Second day at Roundhill, we got an even bigger crew, not much snow left but we were really welcome by the Roundhill crew … doesn’t happen to often so good time indeed.

A mini road trip we did a few days ago to Roundhill, full on sled head with beautiful scenery … ahhh. There’s some terrain in there for sure!.

Today we went for a little exploratory mission, just scoping new places for next year. It was all fun until I got a bit too muddy and there was no place to turn around … good times!.

Here’s a big gallery recap plus a video of what ‘Mad Day’ was, the first one and for sure many to come. A day full of manly activities, beers, wood chopping, snowboarding, cigars, guns, whiskey, meat and more. Be sure to be part of next year.

Video by Tim Pierce, Edit by Theo Muse