Inside the Huge, 100-Plus Inch Blizzard at Ski Portillo

Alec Blossom tends to treat South American snow forecasts with skepticism. As a longtime instructor and guide at one of Chile’s best-known ski resorts, Portillo, he said promising systems can always disappear or shrink before they make landfall.Earlier this month, that was how he felt as headlines and social media pages began detailing what, supposedly, was going to be an enormous cycle in South America. Just 100-plus inches of snow, no big deal.“We're kind of looking at that fo