Hallo, a bit late but better than never :-) .... we have completed our trekking in national park "Los Glaciares" where we did not have so much luck than in Torres del Paine. The weather was bad, bad, bad, bad and bad: it was freezing cold, windy, raining and snowing. The first day when we arrived there was no cloud in the sky and we were so happy to see Fity Roy and Cerro Torre with blue sky. Confidently we thought this would stay this way for the next days... haha... far off... when we woke up the next day, already having packed out bags for the trekking it was raining and the clouds were so thick that we could not see very far out of our window... :-( so we decided to delay our trekking start for one day... but the next day was the same... nearly.. maybe that little bit better than the day before so that we decided to take the chance...and hoped that it would clear and as soon as we arrived at the camp site of the first trekking day blue sky will be over us ... haha... during our walking it started snowing and the wind was so strong that our hands, noses and everything nearly froze! Nevertheless we errected our tent in a new time-record (it was so damn cold!!!!!) and were inside of our sleeping bags so fast...I was freezing really and had (for medical reasons :-)) eat nearly all our chocolate, muesliriegel and other sweet stuff (Mirko forgot to bring the nuts!!!! aaaahhh!) to reach some body temperature near to normal. I was so hungry, it was incredible! after a first warm-up we dared to get our again to cook a meal...brrrrrr... a big portion of rice for each of us... then back again into the tent and sleeping bag... no sun, only snow... and snow falling on the tent really makes a strange and uncomforting sound... let me tell you! in the morning of the next day it hat stopped snowing but it was still freezing cold and no sun or blue sky whatsoever.. also no mountains to see... we decided to give up and go back... no use hanging around here any longer (and remember: I ate nearly all of our sweets-proviant for the whole trek on the first day ;-) ) ... so back... but then mirko decided to go up to a mirador (viewpoint of Fitz Roy) at least to justify the effort to come here.. although there were still clouds... I didn`t... I went back directly.. we met later back in town in the hotel... where it was so cosy and warm!!! aahhh!!!
let me tell you the following which we want to share with you:
1) warm feet put into cold shoes -> result in cold feet immediately
2) there are a lot more of crazy people like us who camp out in the wilderness at snowfall than we thought
3) cold water takes a long time to reach boiling point but gets cold again quicker than you can make the first gulp of your tea
4) noses and hands OUT of sleeping bags get frozen off in no time
5) sleeping with a cap on result in uncontrollable weary hair in the next morning
6) cold hands touching mirko result in very loud cries and strong efforts to get me off... :-)
so....lesson closed... that was the trekking part... :-)
Renate y Mirko
let me tell you the following which we want to share with you:
1) warm feet put into cold shoes -> result in cold feet immediately
2) there are a lot more of crazy people like us who camp out in the wilderness at snowfall than we thought
3) cold water takes a long time to reach boiling point but gets cold again quicker than you can make the first gulp of your tea
4) noses and hands OUT of sleeping bags get frozen off in no time
5) sleeping with a cap on result in uncontrollable weary hair in the next morning
6) cold hands touching mirko result in very loud cries and strong efforts to get me off... :-)
so....lesson closed... that was the trekking part... :-)
Renate y Mirko
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