hrough the winter, sometimes with over 50 cm snow (in 2007, accumulations reached 100 cm!). However, on most winters, this condition is only met above 1200 meters, where most of the slopes of the resort are located.
Higher elevations see much colder conditions: the top of Cerro Catedral, 30 km from the city centre, sees snow cover from late April till at least December, with a maximum in early September that usually reaches well over 150 cm (in 2007, over 400 cm were recorded). The tree line is located between 1,600 m (southerly slope) and 1,800 m (northerly slope), and snowstorms happen in the summer as well.
Water temperatures at the Nahuel Huapi lake vary from a high of 14 °C in late summer and a low of 7 °C in early spring. Alpine streams and ponds often have much lower temperatures, and can be frozen for months
