Friday, November 21, 2008

Torres del Paine - day 0 - Fall


So, Yesterday, we left El Calafate and arrived in Puerto Natales quite late. We then woke up at 7am this morning to pack a few things, rent some equipment, book bus tickets, buy food... The idea of the next couple days is to do the world famous "W circuit" in Torres del Paine. It is very common to leave with needlessly heavy bags since the weather can change very fast (About 18kgs each, for three nights, without water).
At 14.30, we took the bus to the entrance of the park, and at 17h30, a catamaran to the first base camp.

After having set camp, we went to the mirador of glaciar Grey. The weather was very Fall-like. Big clouds, but not really raining... yet.


We came back to the camp at 22h, cooked, had a glass of wine and went to bed (then I realized that the tent was not more than 1m80 long)...

8 comments:

Grégoire said...

The never-endings problems of too short tents...

Anonymous said...

the title of the blog is wrong

Anonymous said...

rain + tent = intense pleasure

Anonymous said...

you still haven't apologized for disappearing in the RER 3 months ago.

Grégoire said...

rain + 1.80 meter long tent = wet feet

Anonymous said...

Hi,
Any news from Gustav ?
Small shoes, small tents...but breathtaking landscapes ! ;-)
Best Regards Jean-Yves

Pouic said...

Effectivement, il ne fait pas très beau...
Et au niveau température, c'est comment ?

Pierre said...

I apologize for having disappeared in the RER three months ago... Just to avoid a diplomatic problem (I had honestly forgotten this event :-) )

Gustav and I are getting back together in Bs As, so do not worry...