Part of our plan during our months of travel was to visit, and climb, in the Fitz Roy Massif in Argentina.
We were literally the last to cross the border from Osorno, Chile to Bariloche Argentina! We absolutely had to stop to take photos: it was a beautiful welcome.
After several days of driving on both paved & unpaved roads along Argentina's Ruta 40 (la quarenta), we arrived in El Chalten: a touristy little town known to some as the backpacking capitol. It's no wonder, there are kilometers and kilometers of wilderness to be explored in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares.
Our first glimpse of Fitz Roy was one we won't soon forget. A sharp reprieve from the vast plains and rolling hills of southern Patagonia we had been traveling over.
Over a week, we climbed at the crags near town, ate deliciously, caught up with some friends from Boulder also in the area, met new folks from Oregon, Utah & Buenos Aires, and hiked to view Fitz Roy from Lago de los Tres. Any photo we might take will not do the area justice but does offer a sense of the rugged beauty.
Though bigger climbing objectives were not realized, we are learning patience and to embrace the full adventure of our trip.
We'll be back; but for now, onward.
We were literally the last to cross the border from Osorno, Chile to Bariloche Argentina! We absolutely had to stop to take photos: it was a beautiful welcome.
After several days of driving on both paved & unpaved roads along Argentina's Ruta 40 (la quarenta), we arrived in El Chalten: a touristy little town known to some as the backpacking capitol. It's no wonder, there are kilometers and kilometers of wilderness to be explored in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares.
Our first glimpse of Fitz Roy was one we won't soon forget. A sharp reprieve from the vast plains and rolling hills of southern Patagonia we had been traveling over.
Over a week, we climbed at the crags near town, ate deliciously, caught up with some friends from Boulder also in the area, met new folks from Oregon, Utah & Buenos Aires, and hiked to view Fitz Roy from Lago de los Tres. Any photo we might take will not do the area justice but does offer a sense of the rugged beauty.
Though bigger climbing objectives were not realized, we are learning patience and to embrace the full adventure of our trip.
We'll be back; but for now, onward.
