First order of business, buy extra warm gear. because
it is far colder and wetter then we anticipated here
here in Patagonia. So, everyone stopped here at the
outdoor store to buy more winter gear.
Looks like I am buying myself some pants. That is what
happens when you come unprepared. You end up
buying pants. Good morning nature.
Hello and welcome to Torres del Paine National Park
here in the south of Chile, called Patagonia, which
which refers to the whole southern tip of Chile and
Argentina. This is the start of my Patagonia trekking trip
with Intrepid Travel. And this is my friend Nomatic Matt
who will be joining me. Are you excited Matt? Oh, yes.
Look at that. So beautiful.
Now the exact multiday trek we will be doing is called
the W trek. It is the most famous and the most popular
here in Torres del Paine.
The bus needs new shocks.
Once in the park our group of 10 hopped on the
catamaran and it was off to our first stop.
Alright so we have arrived at our first campsite here
in Paine Grande. This is where we are going to be
spending 2 nights here at Torres del Paine National
Park. These are various, well not exactly these tents,
we are going to be setting up our tents. But, first we
wanted to get in a quick hike this afternoon.
We are just having lunch and packing up our day bag.
Look what is in our backyard. That is an amazing view
Lets hope the weather stays good. It is super, super
windy here and you'll probably notice
or have noticed by now.
It is about 5 km there, 5 km back.
That is some mountain fresh water right there.
Way to Mordor. Just kidding. Its Mirador.
Alright, it is the end of hiking Day 1 and it was a good
day, a simple day. We hiked from here Paine Grande
all the way to Grey Lookout . That was the grey
glacier that we saw. Yea, day 1 done. Done.
Tomorrow we are going up there.
So, that is the plan. From Paine Grande all the way to
the French Valley.
So yea, there we go. We are all settled into the tent
and I am going to go get ready for dinner. I've changed
into somewhat cleaner clothing
and I think I am going to go get ready for dinner
Oh, my hair. We are just going to ignore that.
Dinner. So excited for food.
2:10 in the morning
And I can't sleep. The craziest thing is that you can hear
the wind coming, you can hear it go though all the tents
It's like roaring though all the tents before it gets to
our tent.
This is one of the craziest wind I have ever experienced
What is this. I decided I can't sleep since the wind is
keeping me up, I might as well go to the washroom.
Casual washroom walk.
After sleeping in a tent, it is so awesome that there is a
cafeteria and I don't have to cook food in the morning.
And its warm. Two bits of it is. I have coffee warm and
I got porridge or oatmeal that is warm. That's pretty
exciting even though I think it is going to be sunny and
hot today. But, right now it is not. SO I am going to
enjoy m hot breakfast in the cafeteria
And we'll see how the rest of the day progresses.
So today we are going to hike to French Valley. This is
what we are going to do. We are going to hike
7.6 km, 2 and a half hours to Camp Italiano, then
another hour, hour and a half to where our friend stays,
then we are going to turn around and come back
Wait, is it edible or is it poisonous?
So edible.
Talking about the fires that happen here in the
provincial park, they had a couple of major fires
and it burned little bits of it. You can see little bits of
the trees. So the moral of the story is, don't start forest
fires in national parks. Don't do it. Because this is
what happens
Cuts inventory. I got that one and I got that one. That
one was from the boat, da 1, and that one was from a
branch. Clearly I waked right into.
Very difficult mountain climbing.