We had a Sunday of rest and recuperation - a day of counting the butterflies and daisies as John Long would say. There were several serious looking photographers with expensive looking equipment photographing this old dock so I thought I’d better do the same El Monument a Mano with James midway through the traverse of … Continue reading Puerto Natales to El Calafate to Buenos Aires
This was the last leg of the circuit back to Camp Central, at least for me and Tom as we'd already ticked the final 'upstroke' of the 'W' with our day hike up to the base of the Torres. James and Elizabeth planned to do this the next day while we guarded the camp in … Continue reading Torres del Paine circuit: Camp Frances to Camp Central and then out
Early morning at Paine Grande We're now at the South eastern corner of the Paine massif and the plan for the day was to hike eastwards around Lago Nordenskjold to Campo Italiano where we would stow our packs and continue north up valley Frances to Campo Britannico. This affords a view of the western side … Continue reading Torres del Paine circuit: Paine Grande to Camp Frances
For Tom and me the next day was a retrace of our previous day’s journey from Paine Grande but it was new for Elizabeth and James. Not so sunny today but good walking weather. You can see the nunatak (island in the ice) at the end of glacier Grey. Although maybe it’s strictly no longer … Continue reading Torres del Paine circuit; Camp Grey to Paine Grande
We got packed up and off to catch an 8:30 shuttle back to the entrance station at Lago Amarga in time to intercept the 9am Maria Josè bus arriving from Puerto Natales. This is the one we’d caught up the previous morning but this time we got on it for the final leg to Pudeto … Continue reading Torres del Paine circuit: Torres Central to Camp Grey
We repeated our previous bus journey into the Torres national park and this time took the the shuttle bus that we'd shunned last time to the Torre Central complex. The previous night I’d managed to book the last remaining space at the campsite here. The quota system works on individuals rather than tents so in … Continue reading Day hike to the Torres
The horse-sized dose of antibiotics seemed to do wonders for Tom and by morning he was in much better shape. We planned a recuperation day in Puerto Natales which mostly involved drifting between coffee shops, restaurants and our hostel. We made a variety of potential plans for rejoining the Torres circuit, the most ambitious of … Continue reading Regrouping and off again
