El Calafete. The start of the way home.
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History. One of the Maestri bolts from the Compressor route on Cerro Torre.
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Cerro Torre.
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El Chalten in the rain.
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Fitz Roy
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Until next time!
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Frey!
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3 tea pots. Everyone wants tea on a rainy day.
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Rest day prepare-to-send-it food. Chocolate covered ice-cream scoops.
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Rainy rest day and grocery restock
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Back in Bariloche
Hornbecker Lens, AO DLX Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic/
The View
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Arbor de Sur America
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Storm blowing through
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Packed and ready. Next stop Argentina.
New Year's Eve: Alta torchlight parade /
Late in posting these, but it was a great time. Torches, skiing and fireworks.
Weather geekery /
Argentina in a week!
http://weather.utah.edu/index.php?runcode=2011122218&t=gfs004&r=SA&d=CN
Got a good weather overview of what to look for to do my own forecast (i.e. Eric’s best guess) and correlated some of it to a known weather window back in December. Here’s to hoping for a stable three weeks of austral summer!
Lepidopteres /
Lépidoptères on the Aiguille du Peigne. One of the best routes we got do to in Chamonix last summer. Five pitches of fun climbing up slabs and corner systems which then joined the Papillons Ridge for two more pitches
The approach was somewhat intimidating; felt very small walking under these steep dark walls.
Slabby right off the belay.
Very memorable to see Polly’s smiling face after she climbed up to the ridge crest and off the north-facing wall and into the sun.
Coolest pitch: weaving between granite flakes and spikes with lots of air off either side.
Our route is marked in green.
This used to be impossible. /
Really great to see these images being scanned and preserved.
http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/about/mercury/scans
http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/about/gemini/scans
Last Year, /
when we had snow…
