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Towers of Paine
3 hikes, 9 glaciers, one dip in a lake and one mountain rescue later and we have finally made it through Torres del Paine!!
On arriving to Torres we took a ferry across the lake to our first campsite where we ran into the other Oasis group and a number of warnings from the- "Turn back", "Don`t stay here", "The mice ate all our food and …
Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
Crossed the border into chile from argentina - all roads here are the usual rock, gravel and dirt. Everything around is just open space with short stubby grass (pampa). Saw wild guanacos (llamas), rhea (like a smaller ostrich) and can run just as fast - we raced one in the bus and the bus was going about 30 mph. Many hours on the bus (about 6 in …
Bad knees, icebergs, glaciers, condors and more!
So, I slept halfway on the bus to Torres. My bus was just Richard and I from the group. Afer being told there was only 3 buses, all of which we had seen sin other greoup members, we were convinced they had missed the bus (NOTE: Mesita grande is a great restaurant in PN) But there was a 4th bus and all was good. The weather was AMAZING we had a …
Torres del PAINe
... all immediately went to bed after dinner ready for the potential 12 hour day of trekking on day one. We woke up at 5.30am, there was a lot of snow on the ground, we grabbed an apple and began the 1 hour steep ascent up to the towers. The sky was filled with snow clouds so it was questionable how much we were actually going to be able to see once we were up there. The majority of the climb was up large boulders, each covered in a thin sheet of snow and occasionally ice, making it ...
The W-circuit
... haben wir zuerst das Zelt aufgebaut und eine Pause gemacht. Im Anschluss sind wir dann noch eine knappe Stunde zu den 'Torres del Paine', den Wahrzeichen des Nationalparks, aufgestiegen. Dabei handelt es sich um drei nadelartige Granitberge, die zwischen 2600 und 2850 m hoch sind.
An diesem Tag haben wir mehr als 750 Hoehenmeter zurueckgelegt.
Das angenehme in Patagonien sind die langen Tage. Sonnenaufgang hatten wir gegen 5:45 Uhr ...
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