Fitz Roy: Trekking in the Patagonian Andes of El Chalten, Argentina: Fitz Roy

South America » Argentina
March 13th 2009

Published: May 18th 2009

So the next day, we woke up somewhat early and headed out for the trek. It was freezing, windy, and rainy, and that rain soon turned into snow! But we were hiking in the middle of the Andes mountains, which was beautiful. So the first portion was only about 3 hours to the first campsite, el Campamiento Poincenot. We arrived there in the afternoon, still absolutely freezing, made some warm past... Read Full Entry

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Matthew taking a break

Bo making pasta for dinner

enjoying some quality tortellini

Bo and me eating dinner

Bo and Matthew

our tent- a four person tent we bought in Buenos Aires thinking it would be all 5 of us trekking together and would need the space, so not only were we the only people with a huge tent, but it was AWFUL for the wind in Patagonia and blew around during the night because of its size

Matthew and me

in our sleeping bags trying to get warm

when we went up to the summit of Ftiz Roy for sunrise, Matthew accidentally woke us up an hour too early so we sat at the top in the dark absolutely FREEZING waiting for the sun to start rising