glaciers are cold

After a flight delay of 5 hours, and a plane full of American teenagers off to catch a cruise to Antarctica (and some really annoying NYC lawyer type who kept complaining about Argentina being a third world country), I´ve moved south, to Calafate, and relatively speaking, its cold here. Of course, its well above freezing (about 11C), but I´ve become accustomed to the heat of the north. I´m off to a two day, one night trek to El Chalten. The first day involves about 5 hours of hiking. The second day, a tyrolean rope crossing and ice climbing. We´ll see how I survive the cold and this sudden burst of activity.

As a preview, here are some photos from the first day of supertrekking...in El Chalten. The second one gives a hazy view of the Fitzroy range.