I hopped out of the bus at the end of the line before Chile, and looked around in awe of where they'd just dropped me. A small relic of a town sat behind me and vast snowy plateaus stretched as far as I could see in front of me, perched above a horseshoe lake in the foreground. While I stood dazed in the parking lot wondering how to meet my friends, the other skier I met on the bus offered me a lift to the nearby refugio/hostel. The 'other skier' on the bus was non-other-than World Freeski Champion Manu Gaidet, so I figured I'd come to the right place. Turned out we were both staying in the same refugio, and my 3 week ski trip in Argentina had begun...