Author: Pete Connolly

Argentina 2017 Recap

SASS Argentina 2017 might just have been our best season to date. The snow in Bariloche during August just kept rolling in and our crews were set up perfectly to take full advantage. As the snow stacked up in the base area, throughout the trees and into the alpine, our options became limitless…  Pow days in the trees, natural features straight from the lifts, hike-to glory turns amongst the granite spires and big touring missions off the back resulted in endless smiles, a crazy number of high-fives, whoops, hollers and “best day of my life”s. Skiing in South America during the summer is always a good call, this year with SASS was just more epic than usual.

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Jones Splitboard Clinics at SASS Argentina

Interested in learning to splitboard? Look no further. We have teamed up with Jones Snowboards and Spark R&D Bindings to offer the Jones Splitboard Clinic for the past 3 seasons at SASS Argentina. We have more and more clients each year looking to learn to splitboard and pride ourselves in providing the perfect platform. With a full fleet of Jones Splitboards for demo complete with Spark R&D Bindings, we give you the chance to try out splitboarding for the first time on the best equipment available. Learn from our crew of experienced guides that know all of the tricks and tips that will either teach you how to splitboard or take your uphill game to the next level.

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ZEAL Week 2017 at SASS Argentina

ZEAL Week 2017 is a collaboration with our partner ZEAL Optics that brings their brand of #ExploreMore to SASS Argentina for a week of shredding with ZEAL athletes Andrew Burns, DCP and Mauri Cambillia, ZEAL-centric giveaways and contests, product demos and a damn good time. All this in August in the Patagonian Andes of Argentina with the SASS crew and the SASS Argentina experience of backcountry progression, cultural exploration, and insane big mountain terrain. JOIN US and our friends from ZEAL Optics for the third year of ZEAL Week at SASS Argentina.

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Andrew Burns Teaches How To Build Backcountry Jumps

 Andrew Burns has been guiding and coaching at SASS Argentina for the past 14 seasons. That makes SASS Argentina 2018 his 15th season. Burns has taught more people how to build backcountry jumps than anyone on the planet. That’s a fact (we welcome any claims to the contrary). Burns is the man who can take you from the guy sitting on the couch watching your favorite shred movie saying “I could hit that” to actually learning what it takes to build that, hit that and how to hit it well. We have long prided ourselves on being a platform for freestyle progression in the backcountry. Burns is the one on snow making it happen…

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Folsom Skis Demo Fleet in Argentina

We are proud to announce the second year of our partnership with Folsom Custom Skis. We are teaming up to provide a demo fleet of hand picked skis specifically tailored to the terrain at SASS Argentina. Join us this summer and test out some of Folsom’s custom designed shapes in the conditions for which they were built. Every single pair of Folsom Skis in our demo fleet have frame touring bindings giving you the added benefit of being able to take them deeper into the backcountry, try out touring for the first time, or simply get as many laps in as possible.

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