El Chaltén - Lago de los Tres, (mysterious) Fitz Roy

Day two in El Chalten was cold and rainy so we hung around town and did a short hike to a waterfall, Chorillo de Salto. Although nothing compares to the falls in Iguazu, it was a nice waterfall with beautiful colors around it. [Tech people, it reminded me a bit of the Cascades]

Day 3 wasn't much better but we decided to suck it up and hike to Lagos de los Tres, which is where we were supposed to be able to see the famous Fitz Roy point. It was posted as a 4 and a half hour long trek one-way and we figured that it was probably pretty despite the weather and it would be a good adventure either way. It definitely was both!

The pictures can´t don´t do justice, but the trees were blazing with red, yellow and orange. The trees looked liked big bonzi trees with small branches spreading out and tiny leaves...very pretty. We weren´t very far when it started to snow. At first, we werent very cold and it wasn´t sticking to us so it looked really pretty within the trees. Again, the pictures weren´t capturing the snow flakes so it just doesnt look as good here as it was in person!

Lago Capri...very pretty but I´m sure much more so when it´s not so cloudy

Our goal...

One of the bridges we had to cross...until yesterday one of the scariest...more to come on that!

We literally had to climb up and over the close mountain...it´s hard to show the perspective of the sheer upward climb we did through the snow and wind! I felt like we could have blown off at any moment!

Our warning before we hiked up...

Picture atop the mountain...with the lake in the background.  The weather started to get really bad so we quickly headed back down.

After the ascent and once we made it back to the camping area the area cleared up briefly so we got so good pictures without the snow.

We are thinking of starting our own bottling company...mmm glacier water

Posing after a days hard work...