Mood: Right now... tipsy.
Music: Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Today started at a fairly sensible time. I was to meet for my trek at 9:30am and that gave me enough time to have a quick breakfast before I left for the day. I met with the 3 other people I was to be spending the day with, Carolina, our guide who very graciously suggested that she carry my lunch as I had no day sack, David, a fellow Brit and Fernando, an Austrian gentleman.
We set off on the Los Torres trek, due to take 6 to 8hrs covering 18km or path and rising to 750m above the starting point. The road took us over a small stream several times, crossing on small wooden bridges and up a valley towards the peaks after which the park is named. David, at 6 foot 6, has a long stride and as such he and I lead the party most of the way. The only exceptions being when I was farting around taking photos of the route. These make up numbers 48 to 76 of the Patagonia folder on picasa.
Our guide would have walked much faster, as she proved later in the day, as she scampered off into the trees to catch the other two after she and I had stopped to take photos of the streams rampaging back down the mountains.
The top seemed to be rather full of Britains, all seeming to have chosen to light up at the same time. It took me a little while before I could bare going back over to see the stunning view (of the cloud obscuring what would be the tops of the towers).
We ate lunch at the top and headed back down the same path to the hotel. Once back I bought everyone a beer and then sorted out the photos for the day. This evening I sat through the presentation of what I can do tomorrow. It's going to be a longer but flatter trek to see a glacier, should we have enough time. This wasn't what I was originally planning to do but they do not run every trek every day and the one I was looking for wasn't on offer.
Each of the treks is rated in difficulty and I mainly picked today's trip as it was rated the most difficult. The other full day trek with the same difficulty wasn't on offer today, thus my previous comment. It's not really a case of trying to tire myself out, although obviously I do enjoy doing so, it is more a point of trying not to get stuck in a group of really slow walkers and being forced to walk at their pace for a whole day. Luckily David is doing the same trek as I tomorrow and Carolina said she'd try to get assigned to whatever we had chosen so it might be an ok day :)
I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.
Night night.
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