Day 1: Temuco – Manzanares
A KLAdventure guide will meet you at the Temuco airport (please make sure that your flight arrives before 11:00 am) and transfer you to the Manzanar Hot Springs Hotel. After hotel check-in, we will meet with your Mountain Guide for a gear check and briefing. An avalanche beacon search and safety clinic will be conducted. We will warm up with a short ski touring treck.
- Maximum Alt: 10,242 feet (3,122m)
- Min Alt: 5,577 feet (1,700m)
- Vertical Drop: 4,465 feet (1,422m)
- Skin up: 1½ hours
- Ski down: 45 minutes
Day 2: Ski Touring Lonquimay Volcano
We travel to the base of the Corralco ski area, located on the Lonquimay Volcano. In the Mapudungun language of the Mapuche people, the name Lonquimay means ‘dense forest’. We ride the chairlift up to the ski area’s highest point and then make an ascent of this beautiful and accessible peak. At the summit we’ll admire panoramic views of the region’s other stunning volcanoes and then make our long, long descent. We return to the Manzanar Hot Springs Hotel.
- Max Altitude: 9,009 feet (2,746m)
- Min Alt: 4,790 feet (1,460m)
- Vertical Drop: 4,219 feet (1,286m)
- Skin up: 4-5 hours
- Ski down: 2 hours
Day 3: Ski Touring Llaima Volcano – Pucón
We’ll make an early transfer to Las Araucarias Ski Resort at the base of the Llaima Volcano. Considered one of the three most active volcanoes in South America, Llaima—which means ‘come back to life’ in the Mapudungun language of the Mapuche people—has had more than forty eruptions over the past 150 years, the most recent in 1994. We will ascend and then ski down this impressive volcano with its vast crater, twin peaks with spectacular smoking fumaroles, and araucaria forests. At the end of the day we transfer to the hotel in Pucón.
- Max Altitude: 10,252 feet (3,125m)
- Min Alt: 5,085 feet (1,550m)
- Vertical Drop: 5,167 feet (1,575m)
- Skin up: 4-5 hours
- Ski down: 1 hour
Day 4: Ski Touring Villarrica Volcano
We set out for Villarica Volcano National Park, with its picture-book smoking volcano—one of the most active in South America—and its rushing rivers, volcanic caves, and emerald-coloured lagoons. On our 5-hour ski tour, we’ll enjoy privileged views of this outstanding wilderness area. At the end of the day we’ll have dinner at one of Pucón’s celebrated restaurants and stay overnight at the hotel in Pucón.
- Max Altitude: 9,340 feet (2,847m)
- Min Alt: 4,625 feet (1,410m)
- Vertical Drop: 4,625 feet (1,437m)
- Skin up: 4 hours
- Ski down: 1 hour
Day 5: Ski Touring Mocho Volcano
We drive to Mocho-Choshuenco reserve, a wilderness area of more than 29,000 square miles (7,537 hectares). Its twin cones tower above native forest intersected by tumbling rivers and dotted with Andean lakes. We stay overnight at our lodge in the Huilo Huilo reserve for the night.
- Max Altitude: 7,946 feet (2,422m)
- Min Alt: 2,296 feet (700m)
- Vertical Drop: 5,649 feet (1,722m)
- Skin up: 3.5 hours
- Ski down: 1 hour
Day 6: Huilo-Huilo – Antillanca
We drive to the Antillanca resort on the slopes of the Casablanca Volcano in Puyehue Nacional Park. This beautiful wilderness area is characterized by dense native forest on volcanic terrain, and a wide variety of fauna including puma, grey foxes, quiques, coipos, güiñas and vizcachas, and extensive bird life including condors, bandurrias, and slender-billed parakeets On the way we stop at Puyehue Hot Springs to relax and have lunch. We stay overnight at our hotel in Antillanca area.
Day 7: Ski Touring Casablanca Volcano
We’ll ride Antillanca´s lifts to the ski area’s highest point, where we’ll set out for the summit. The views over the surrounding landscape are spectacular: the volcano’s lower slopes, thickly forested with coigue, manio, ulmo, and tepa, are dotted with emerald lakes, and the snow-covered cone of the Osorno Volcano rises majestically on the skyline. We drive to Puerto Varas and stay overnight at our hotel.
- Maximum Alt: 6,528 feet (1,990m)
- Min Alt: 3,412 feet (1,040m)
- Vertical Drop: 3,116 feet (950m)
- Skin up 1½ hours
- Ski down 45 minutes
Day 8: Ski Touring Volcano Osorno
We make an early start to begin our ascent of Osorno, an iconic Chilean volcano noted for its similarity to Japan’s Mt. Fuji. An active volcano with a glaciated summit, Osorno towers over the beautiful Llanquihue and Todos los Santos lakes. We return to our hotel in Puerto Varas for a dinner.
- Maximum Altitude: 8,700 feet (2,652m)
- Min Alt: 4,068 feet (1,240m)
- Vertical Drop: 4,632 feet (1,412m)
- Skin up 4-5 hours
- Ski down 1½ hours
Day 9: Puerto Varas – Puerto Montt – Santiago
Transfer to Puerto Montt fish market for lunch and later to the airport in Puerto Montt for the flight back to Santiago. End of Auracania and Patagonia Ski Touring Tour.