Cerro Castor

Cerro Castor is a ski resort on the southern slope of Mount Krund [d],[1] 26 kilometres (16 mi) from the city of Ushuaia, in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego.

[2] The standard season takes place between June and October, and it is, thanks to the geographic location, the longest among the main ski centers in Argentina.

[4] As of 2012, there are ten lift facilities in the resort, enabling to carry up to 9,500 people per hour: four four-seats chairlifts, three T-bars and three magic carpets.

Cerro Castor has twenty-eight snowmass trails (with 600 hectares or 1,500 acres of usable surface and a vertical drop of 800 m or 2,600 ft), a snowpark, several restaurants and tearooms, recreation facilities, mountain shelters, a skiing school, a first-aid service, and a lenga beech forest.

[6] In 2012 Cerro Castor hosted the FIS Freestyle Slopestyle World Cup, organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS), and qualifying competition for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games[7] The results were as follows: The Interski Congress and World Cup, organized by the International Ski Instructors Association, was hosted by Cerro Castor from 5 to 12 September 2015 in which was the first ever event held by this association in the Southern Hemisphere.

Cerro Castor