Santiago Chile has a population of 7 million people. It is by far the biggest concentration of people in country, which is comprised of only 16 million people. 
When Santiago chooses to go ski, it will most likely choose to go to the Tres Valles. “Tres Valles” is the term the locals use to describe three ski areas: La Parva, El Colorado, and Valle Nevado. Each ski area while connected by boundaries, function individually. They have their own lifts, patrol, and ticket system; they are entirely different companies, who don’t work together on anything really.
The South American Beacon Project in Conjunction with Ortovox changed that this year. On August 8th, patrollers came from all three resorts to La Parva for a class specifically on beacon technology. This is the first time to our knowledge all the ski areas have met for unified rescue training.
The class started inside and covered subjects as basic as partner rescue, and as complex as overlapping signals and the effects on different digital beacons. Then the class went outside and went through flux line and searching exercises.
This is an exciting start to more unified avalanche education in the Tres Valles area