The town is not the most attractive one, but it isn`t horrible either. It certainly is in a beautiful location and is well setup for people planning on hiking in Torres del Paine National Park.
After a day to rest and get our stuff together for hiking, we headed up to the Torres.
It is about a 3 hour ride to the park. Once there, we caught a boat that took us to our starting point on Lake Pehoe.
When we got there, the weather was horrendous. We had the pleasure of setting up our tent in driving rain and about 48 degrees.
That night there were about 100 people in the cooking hut because of the terrible weather. After we were done, it was still awful out, so we had a drink in the bar there. They have bars and little restaurants out in the middle of the wilderness in South America. Chilean wine is really good and really cheap too.
The next day, the rain had let up somewhat, but the wind was even worse. There´s the forecast for that day:
We started up our 22 km hiking day to Glacier Gray and back in just ridiculous winds. A couple times it just about blew us over.
The lake is probably 15 miles long, and once you get to it from Pehoe, there are icebergs that have floated all the way down there.
It was pretty cold, so we made pretty good time up to the glacier.
Once you are up there you can walk right up to some icebergs in the end of the lake.
You can walk up to the glacier as well, but it is another hour or two one way and we were freezing, so we headed back.
The wind didn´t stop, but on the way back it actually started to clear up:
The next morning it was much much nicer. Mostly clear and pretty warm. Compare this picture to the other one of the campground. It is the same place:
Our walk from Pehoe to Campamento Italiano was really pleasant (and flat).
We made it to Italiano, left our heavy packs and headed up towards Campimento Britannico:
When you get to Britannico you can see the back sides of the Torres and the Cuernos. You probably have seen pictures of the front sides of both. But I´ll get to that part on the next post.
In real time, we´re heading to the beach tonight and will be hanging out there for several days. We´ll have time to update blogs and apply for jobs there.
Movie Review
Forget Paris: 0
This is an old Billy Crystal movie they played on a bus ride. It is just supremely bad. I am not sure I´ve watched a more irritating movie. Ghosts of Mars and Ghost Rider are bad, but I´d rather watch them back to back (by far) than watch Forget Paris again. Super stupid, super irritating, super pointless, not funny. It kind of makes me mad just thinking about it.
It looks like kids in Chile have moved on from drugs to harder things:
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