January 26 - Leaving Torres del Paine

Last night it rained on and off fairly hard.  Windy all night.  The fly on the tent beside me wasn't secured properly and slapped about excessively all night.  I actually had a reasonably good night's sleep.  Something to do with a shower and tiredness.

Here's the inside of the camper's cooking shack at breakfast.  I don't know what the story  is with the huge tub of food.  Whether it's a group that is camping here only and not moving or whether some poor shmuck has to carry it somewhere.

I did see lots of big heavy things that where going to be carried.  I took pity on one group of young Chileans who had all sorts of canned stuff and not can opener.  I opened a couple of cans before they injured themselves.

  I packed up and had time for a short walk before I got into the catamaran lineup.  Here's a view of most of Paine Grande.  The shower and toilet building is on the left (out of the photo), the left hand building is the camper's cooking shack, and the main building.

A couple of geese on the hill.  I couldn't get a shot of them as they flew off.











The whole point of taking the catamaran back (besides that you don't have to walk) is to get some long distance scenery shots.  However, everything was pretty much in fog, so they aren't worth looking at.




OOPS!  Miss-fire.  Is this like selfie suicide?












The catamaran at the other end, loading the next group.  I'm waiting for the bus.

A shot of some Guanacos from the bus.

The final map.  I traced my route in yellow.  You can see why they call this the 'W' route.

Normally, the 'W' ends at about the end of the glacier, so you can see what I did with my extra 2 days.  Somewhere between 85 and 90 km of walking, I think.

It's January 27 right now.  I've spent the day in Puerto Natales, writing this up, cleaning up gear and wandering about town.


I'm heading out for dinner now.  Tomorrow is get on the bus for the 5 hour ride to El Calafate in Argentina.  Not sure when I'll be able to do more posting.  Perhaps late tomorrow or the next day.