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I was originally going to arrive in Calafate a week ahead of Dad and Mark to rock climb with some friends in El Chalten. After two weeks of gut wrenching logistical highs and lows, Dad and Mark arrived in Calafate 45 minutes before I did! We celebrated the sweet reunion Patagonia style, cordero patagónico and bife de chorizo, tenedor libre, and one or two bottles of Bianchi… Despite waddling to the truck the next morning…, | |
…we managed to load the gear and set out early for El Chalten, early enough that the rising sun still hadn't burned away this bank of steam hugging a warm marsh area in the estepa. | |
El Calafate in the rear view mirror, its abundant poplars stretching skyward from the southeastern shores of Lago Argentino. | |
First guanaco sighting of the expedition. | |
Transition zone between ice-capped Andes and flat desert estepa. | |
Transition photo between "transition zone" photo above and… | |
…Parque Nacional Los Glaciars as seen from Ruta 40, the range north of El Calafate and Lago Argentino, south of El Chalten and Cerro Fitz Roy, its glacial liquid turquoise slicing through arid estepa. | |
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