Monday, 30 March 2015

Mount Fitz Roy

A reasonable start saw us with what can only be described as exceptional weather, with 11km each way to do we set a good pace and were graced by the beauty of the giants ahead of us.

Leaving camp, the rock on the right looking like a Lions head at the peak.

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The first view point

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The valley all the way up offering stunning picturesque scenery

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One creek crossing

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Making it to the lake was another WOW, massive hanging basins, glaciers, a lake and massive spires to go…..wicked.

Up in the snow

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Lunch was the go at what can be noted as one of the coolest lunch spots we have ever had on the entire trip.

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The funny thing was we had riot gear for wind and freezing conditions …..a waste of time carting it up for our one out of the box day, very unusual to have such calm weather here so we made the absolute most of it spending nearly 2 hours taking in the stage of beauty in front of us.

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The part that I hate, the return down hill section with the first km being a killer drop it was not promising to be good for me so we took it quietly until we hit the more level ground to preserve my poor old knees.

All in all an outstanding day of epic rewards in the scenery category and two very happy campers.

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The monsters in full

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On our way back down Ellen wanted to cool her feet off ...mine were fine

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The final part of this walk was Lago Capri, a nice spot it was too.

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That night Paul from Holland arrived on a 1990 Tenere 600, he had a stator issue but we could not help unfortunately, we chatted for a while and he ended up camping with us too.

More wine, good times.

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