FITZ ROY, EL CHALTEN, ARGENTINA

January 12, 2017

Buenos Dias.

A much appreciated sunny morn after a cool mountain night.

Mont Fitz Roy, named after the captain of the 
Beagle. The ship noted for its passenger, Charles Darwin.
The tower has a long history of notable ascents. One being in the mid '60s by a team that included the founder of the Patagonia clothing line, Yvon Chouinard. Accompanied by the late Doug Thomkin, founder of  another biggy,
North Face. 

After a relatively simple two hour hike up yesterday, today we will continue our ways to Camp Poincenot, closer to the base of Mont Fitz Roy. 

After a bit of a climb up to our camp one, today we will trek a high plateau that makes this trail a long but relatively easy walk that attracts a regular stream of day hikers.

After setting up camp, we'll head a little further up the valley where our lunch view is Glacier Blanco.

Back at camp we check out our view from our travelling room.

We've had an amazing couple of days here. One of those natural connections to nature.

(I don't mind paying for nature. Here everything is free. Where we will head to next, Torres del Paine, not so much.)

The area is busy by day but the tent city by night has us even finding some acquaintances from our past couple months of travel.

FITZ ROY, SENDERO al, EL CHALTEN, ARGENTINA. NEMY, KATE and PAUL

January 10, 2017

El Calafate to El Chalten, Argentina.

 Survey says:

"Smile as we head to the Agentinian outpost of El Chalten"

 This part of the world offers out large portions of most things.

Here being the wind.

That's HIGH winds.

 Off to the bus. We'll explore more of the town on our return.

 We will again travel more of the desert. The Patagonian Austral portion of the mighty Andes, and today's target, off in the distance.

 We've arrived at one end of town at the bus station, tracked down our Hostal that we have a booking in three days and dropped of some gear and then continued to hike to the end of El Chalten where we picked up the Fitz Roy trail.

 With grub and camping gear in tow and the weather looking fine, we're off to an impromptu couple of nights up the valley.

 Hiking through and up and out of town.

 Mountain magic.
With the village of El Chaten in the bottom centre left, our first night "up" will be on Laguna Capri and then the next day up the valley to Camp Poincenot.

Parque Nacional Los Glaciares 

Its all very Hubba Hubba.

Room with a view.

Our Laguna Capri camp.

Panorama Patagonia.

Next: Tomorrow we'll try to match up the actual range of "Torres" Yvon Chouinard used in his clothing line logo.