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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Pictures of Torres Del Paine National Park Chile

The torres in the background on the right, just as they escaped from the storm!

Another shot of the Torres Del Paine

Amber crossing a sketchy bridge, the warning picture is below!

My favorite shot of the trip, you can see the Cuernos del Paine and the back of the Torres del Paine. The lake in front is the Lago Nordenskjold which is a massive lake maybe the size of Lake Tahoe.

Amber throwing up the peace sign in the middle of Patagonia on our 16 mile day, it was beautiful, but hard as hell!!!!

Lake Pehoe in the distance. It was teal because of the glacier melt and also the depth. Insane colors!!

Here is the lake again, it matched Ambers jacket, the water here was sooooooo tasty and all you did was dip you water bottle and you were good to go, cold and fresh.

So the weather in Patagonia, always windy!!! I mean 60mph winds, but at least we had a sunny day!

Here is another great shot of the Torres! The middle of the mountains is lighter becasue it is granite, the top is dark sedimentary rock.

How stoaked do I look! I wanted to trek here forever, I know that I will be back someday, we only saw a fraction of the park.

These fungi looking things grew on the trees and we think this is the way the tree dispersed its seeds. Almost like a pincone, except they looked like apricots-crazy!

One of the many snow melt waterfalls. The trees look like pines, but they are actually way different and the leaves almost look like mint leaves.

Glacier Grey in the distance with some Chilean firebrush. We camped at this glacier the first night.

A waterfall into Lake Pehoe, at the beginning of our trip.

We hiked sections of the W trail for three nights and four days. This is at the beginning before we knew what was ahead of us. Although it was epic and hard, it was worth every second (it´s easy to say that now when I am warm and inside!)

Wildflowers everywhere!

A Capertillar! They were all over the trail, we moved them off so they did,nt get tromped on.

El mirdor de Glacier Grey and Lago Grey

Yeah Amber! You can´t really tell that the wind is blowing like 60 mph. Man it was so strong it would push you in different directions and all over the place.

Ambers great shot of the Guanacos, they look like llamas but are much cuter and all over the entrance to the park. We saw a lot of wildlife including condors, pink flamingos, rabbits, hawks, butterflies, and a ton of other birds.

Our first night camping at Los Guardos by the glacier. We had a nice spot protected from the wind, but the rain still decided to welcome us, luckily it was just a drizzle.

A river carved canyon

Us again in the wind, staoked to see our second glacier.

A closer shot of the glacier. In the middle of the night we woke up to a sound of thunder, but it was just a huge chunk falling of of the glacier- the sound is like nothing you could imagine.

This lake reminded me of rock lake, the color is so different because a glacier does not feed this particular lake. This park has hundreds of lake from all of the frozen water all over the mountains.

Cuerno Principal!

This is the bridge that Amber is crossing above. We were worried that the both of us plus our packs would be to much weight but we made it across alive!

Our second campsite at campamento Italiano, before the none-stop rain hit.

The final day at the Torres del Paine, this is me excited to be finished, sore as hell and stoaked that the weather cleared so at least I could see the Torres.
The towers of Torres del Paine, one of the largest granite rock faces that we have ever seen.

2 comments:

  1. You made it! great..thank you for the wonderful birthday gift! the pictures are so nice..a lot of good memories. it was nice to see the pictures you have been posting! wow! have a wonderful christmas and we are sending our love to you! be well and happy. love mom

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  2. What an amazing feat you two have accomplished! An amazing looking place, the wind and rain must have been a challenge. We are so proud of you two. Hope that you are keeping a journal up, so you remember all of your adventures in the years to come.
    Love you, hope that your Christmas was special.

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