on the road from El Calafate around Lago Argentino |
on Ruta 40, crossing the Santa Cruz river |
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rounding the east shore of Lago Argentino |
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at La Leona, where Butch and Sundance paused after robbing the bank at Rio Gallegos in 1905 |
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on the north shore of Lago Viedma; winds are picking up |
sighting the cerros; Fitz Roy lost in the clouds |
Tom's eyeglasses flew off into the wild! |
...never to be seen again |
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El Chalten means "smoking mountain" |
the Bahia Tunel at the north end of the lake |
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the park visitor's center in the town of El Chalten |
backed by the Condor Lookout |
Tom and Jay head off up the trail to the top of the lookout |
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remarkable density of Andean vegetation |
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up! |
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a surprising small wooded section at the saddle |
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the Cerro Solo, alone in the distance |
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our guide Fatima on the lookout peak |
the view of El Chalten from the Condor Lookout |
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Tom daring the wind again |
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more of the amazing plant variety on the hike down |
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a small laguna on the way out of town |
on the trail to el Chorrillo del Salto |
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at the "jumping falls" with Fatima |
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heading back to El Calafate |
the Viedma glacier in the distance |
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that about sums it up! |
a panorama of El Chalten from the lookout |