Action Adventure!
We are just back from El Chalten and the Fitzroy mountain range. We did two days trekking (5 & 8 hours) with absolutely perfect weather. We were able to see the famous Cerro Torre and Cerro Fitzroy peaks clearly and saw some great country.
Yesterday we had a 12 hour day and went on an organised hike with Fitzroy Expeditions. We trekked for 4 1/2 hours to a glacier in the park. We crossed a river by rope on a harness pulling ourselves across with our hands. We were then fitted with crampons and went walking on the glacier! It was such an amazing landscape! All crevices and valleys and peaks. Incredible! We were then given a chance to climb an ice wall in the gracier with ice axes and our crampons! So much fun and quite and achievement! Something I would definately recommend! We were on the glacier for about 3 hours and then had the 4 hour walk back out of the park! Huge day but well worth it!
We are off to the Valdes Penninsular tomorrow - a 24 hour bus trip! Hopefully to see lots of penguins and orcas!
Whats news out there anybody?
posted by Katherine Buckley @ 10:40 PM
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I thought I would leave it a while before I wrote to you to see how the cricket went on! Needless to say that subject is now taboo but you had better dust off the urn Michael and hand it rather reluctantly over to Katherine!!
You sound as though you are having a trip of a lifetime. I'm thinking of having a gap year (or is it a retirement fling now I have reached the BIG 60).
Happy birthday Michael for the 25th and have a great Christmas and all the best for 2007.
Love from Aunty Beryl, Uncle Jamie and the rest of the clan.
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