Patagonia Hiking Pictures

OK - less talk, just pictures as i´m trying to conserve the time on the internet cafes and it takes too long to upload these pictures. there are many of the scenery as well, but i´m putting the pictures with either brian and myself for now.

Here´s one of me and brian at the beginning of our two day, one night super-trekking trip in El Chalten, Argentina. note how rested we looked.

We hiked into the mountains and stopped at a lake for lunch. I and others decided to wade into the very cold waters which was great for the feet. Surprisingly the water is potable so we filled up our water bottles - it was cold and refreshing.

From there we continued to hike up more. We took a quick break at a vista point and that´s one of me taking a breather on a nice, warm rock.

The next day, we woke up at 6 am to begin our big day. We hiked to get to our destination, which was walking on some glaciers and then do some ice climbing. Not my idea of fun, but i was game. At one point, we had to cross a big river by this rope bridge where we pulled ourselves over. Here´s a picture of Brian doing it.

OK - here´s one scenery picture as we were hiking onto the glacier. You are seeing these massive jagged peaks which are indicative of the Andes due to the high winds. It was too cold, but I was in my Antarctica gear which worked like a champ. We also had to put on crampons which was a first for me.

Finally, here´s a picture of me doing my ice climb. Brian was videotaping me and he said at the top, he saw the look of fear. I agreed. I climbed up and said, now what? OK - so this should be turned around clockwise, but that would require about five more minutes of internet time and it´s been 1 hour.

Hasta luego.