While not our last day of hiking, Day three marked our last day of
schlepping the bags around and wrapped up our last night in a Refugio…we were
heading to Hotel Las Torres for two nights!
I had a pang of regret however knowing that we were saying goodbye to
our roughing it counterpart…the hotel price tag catered more to day hikers and
tennis shoe wearers. But not to get
ahead of ourselves, we spent the previous night in the most unique location;
domes on the shores of a lake!
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| Bah, it is early and our trip is almost over |
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| But what a cool place to stay for the night |
Here are a few photos from the trek….unfortunately you can’t see or appreciate how windy the day was. With 70kmph gusts, I was almost knocked over a few times.
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| Off one more time with the full packs on... |
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| Looking back at the domes along Lago Nordenskjold |
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| Into the plains |
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| Our final barrier until Hotel Las Torres |
Topics discussed were limited due to the wind (and possible exhaustion
of topics) but we did discuss potential locations for our next big hike. The top choices included the High Sierras, New
Zealand and Ireland / Scotland. Even
better though, in the quietness caused only by deafening winds, I found myself
really enjoying the day and was a bit sad at thought of the hike being close to
done. The past three days had had the
rejuvenating effects of 3 weeks. We need
to do this more often.
Departure: 8:20
Arrival 1:30
Distance
– 14km
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