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Well, last weekend I got confused and gave you both photos and fiction! This is what happens when I try to get things ready ahead of time, and you can consider it advance payment for the posts I'm going to miss later this month while I'm out hiking.

I'd forgotten that after hiking to Laguna Torres, the next day we hiked to a viewpoint overlooking the same lake (Loma del Pliegue Tumbado). It was an incredibly windy day; I remember feeling like I needed to hang onto someone or something to avoid being blown off the summit.

We started the day with the fantastic sunrise that features in a number of photos I've already shared.


Once the sunrise was over, we raced to the trailhead to get going on the day's hike, which was nearly 12 miles and almost 4000' of gain and loss. I believe we took the next day off!

Here are some highlights, again all are Dave's photos:




Patagonia has some interesting plants.

Dave identified these as Calceolaria unifloria, or Darwin's slipper.

This one cowered in the lee of a boulder, and is a viola sacculus.


 I was ready to do some cowering in the lee of something myself.

The author atop the world.

 

We did most of our own cooking, but rewarded ourselves for this hike with a dinner out.

 Here are a couple of bonus photos from the drive up from El Calafate to El Chalten.


 Some random roadside art:


 

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