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Nothing can compare to snowboarding on fresh powder on a beautiful sunny day. This is not to say that you don’t need to safety conscious when out riding on your snowboard. This article mentions a few safety tips for when you’re out there on the mountains.

Looking for signs of past events is part of planning your route down a mountain safely, and is an important skill to practice. Anytime there is a huge avalanche, you hear about it on the news. The news stories do a good job of showing how devastating and unforgiving this natural disaster can be. What you may not realize is that a small avalanche can kill you just as easily as a big one. It’s really about experience when it comes to reading your routes. It’s also not the easiest skill to acquire either, but it’s not something you should ignore. It can be difficult to detect the variations in the terrain but you need to learn to study them. Doing so can show you potential hazards as well as signs of past damage to trees. Neglecting you equipment is a mistake, maintain your snowboard gear properly and inspect it regularly as every part is critical to safe snowboarding. Head to your local snowboard shop to get it checked out and services regularly.

For beginner snowboarders, be smart and get some lessons before you go out tearing it up. Learn from a very experienced buddy or a professional snowboard instructor. This is one of the cleverest things you can ever do. Think about wanting to learn the proper way to snowboard from the start because if you don’t, then you are actually putting yourself in some extent of harm’s way because you’re possibly performing a move inappropriately. Check out your first snowboard lesson online here by reading our article about the parts of a snowboard.

Obviously like any sport especially extreme sports, you can’t stop all of the potential injuries from happening while you are snowboarding, but you can do your best to prevent a lot of them.

It usually just depends on where you are snowboarding. If you’re out in the back-country, then you need to take extra precautions for obvious reasons. If something happens you might be all by yourself. Going out snowboarding alone (which is absolutely not recommended) is not a good idea as it invites extreme risks. So, give some thought to what you’re doing and where you’re going.

La Parva is located next to and just north of Valle Nevado and is a host to a plethora of refuges and rentable apartments for the winter season. Once you have purchased your lift ticket you are able to take the shuttle to and from lifts and lodges.  La Parva with 9,673 meters offers 13 chairlifts. It was easy to reach all parts of the mountain. La Parva seemed to be the most popular resort of the three and with good reason. It was well groomed, offered high altitudes with accessible lifts. They also offered Heli-skiing with their take off point from the top of a lift which was neat to see for people who dream of trying.

La Parva being bigger than Termas de Chillan offered a greater variety of runs, it was almost impossible to have the same run twice.

Fix your summer snowboard craving and head south of the equator where the hemisphere allows you to feast on powder at high altitudes. The Andes are on the west coast of South America and are the longest continental mountain range. Resorts open for the season starting in June and go into October. Chile offers many options for high altitude boarding.

Below is a list of three snowboard resort reviews in Chile…

• Valle Nevado Snowboard Resort Review
• Termas de Chillan Snowboard Resort Review
• La Parva Snowboard Resort Review

The Andes in Chile offer powder at high altitudes, Heli-sking and amazing sunsets. If you have the motivation for a snowboarding adventure head south.

If you have been to any other snowboard resorts in Chile or in any other part of the world and would like to write a review of provide our readers with some feedback about a particular snowboard resort, then please send an email to info@snowboardrespect.com