Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

I'm not in a position to respond to comments right away, but if you leave one, I'll see it eventually! I've been working my way through our 2020 trip to Patagonia and sharing some of my late husband's photos, with an occasional picture of my own (assume they are his unless I indicate otherwise). Today we'll take a look at the spectacular Lago de los Tres (I don't recall if we ever figured out three whats). The trail was 14.6 miles and nearly 4000' of climbing. I think I was younger then! Glacial river. We definitely made an early start. An intermediate lake with good views.   After climbing up and up forever, you pop over a ridge... ... and there you are! We had some cool cloud stuff going on while up there. Despite our early start, the lake had a lot of people around (some of whom can be seen here if you look carefully). It's a jump-off point for serious climbers, and there's a campsite 3/4 of the way up, so many got there ahead of us.  We saw Andea...

Well, last weekend I got confused and gave you both photos and fiction ! (I also forgot the title!). 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...