Cerro Castor
www.cerrocastor.comcontacto@cerrocastor.comThe newest in Argentina and, like everything in Ushuaia, the southernmost in the world, Castor Mount opens its fifth season. Very close to Tierra del Fuego capital city, where the sea and the mountains meet to be the protagonists of a dazzling geography, Castor is only 195 meters over sea level and its top rises to 1,057 meters.
With a skiable drop that reaches 772 meters, Castor Mount distributes 24 runs with different levels of difficulties and off-piste sectors into 20 kilometers. Nordic ski is the most outstanding modality, with circuits that go through lengas forests which can also be visited on snow rackets.Unlike the general belief, Castor enjoys very good weather and the best quality of powder snow, due to the stability of its temperature, offering one of the longest seasons in South America.
Modern lifts, skiing and snowboarding school, and all the services that complement the infrastructure and Ushuaia scenery, turn Castor Mount into a complete resort, to ski in the confines of the world.
News
In 2008, Cerro Castor inaugurated 2 téléskis in the eastern area of the hill and in 2009 a four-seat chairlift spanning 940 meters and covering a skiable slope of 235 meters was added. It stands at 420 meters of height and it has been named the Park Chairlift.
Likewise, two Magic Carpets have been incorporated in the beginners’ area to enhance transportation of skiers who are taking their first steps on the snow.
A new track called Liquen was laid out in the hill. It has red difficulty (hard).
The Snowpark features a new design and a new location. Now it lies under the Park Chairlift, between the Águila Mora and Liquen tracks, surrounded by trees that protect it from the wind. This new Snowpark unfolds opposite the future restaurant at the 420 meters area.Useful data
How to Get There: located 26 km from Ushuaia, where there is an international airport and a tourist harbor for large size vessels. It can also be accessed by land through National Route 3.Season: from July 09 to October 16.
Weather: in winter, temperatures range between 5º and -5ºC.
Activities: skiing, snowboarding, snowblading
Services: school, first aid stand, boutique.
Canopy
Canopy is a new adventure sport whose main objective is to offer a unique activity and a different ecological experience which consists in not altering the habitat.
The feeling of going through the Valdivian forest or the Andean Patagonian forest from the tops of the trees, swinging or hanging in the middle of nowhere, is both funny and exciting.
Fly Fishing
It is inevitable that we use passion to speak about fishing. A passion that invades each of us, anglers, in a different way, but usually by means of anecdotes or experiences.
Not only is fly-fishing passionate, but it also surpasses passion to such an extent that it is hard to put it into words. It can be told, like I am telling you at this very moment, but experience is and must be personal, always.
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