El Chaltén--Laguna de Torre

El Chalten is a very small town known only because it is the base of a ton of hikes and mountains, where some of the most world reknown climbers come for a challenge. Of course, we stuck to the more basic climbs but even those werent simple! Unfortunately the Patagonia weather, which is known as being predictably unpredictable, didnt cooperate with us. We only saw the famous points of Cerro Torre and Cerro Fitzroy from afar on our first day. We did the treks anyway...and were blown away by the beautiful nature on the way (as you can see in our pictures below).

Our first trek was to Laguna de Torre and to see Cerro Torre, meant to be a 3 hour trek one-way (we are awesome so we did it slightly faster!). The sun stayed out and we were actually hot but we didnt quite see the peak of Cerro Torre. Next time!  

One good thing about the time of year is that all the leaves are changing colors...it looks different from back home, but really pretty

Glacier Grande - Leads into Laguna Cerro

 

Laguna Cerro. As you can see, the weather started to change on us. Straight ahead is Cerro Torre but we couldn´t see the top.

Chunks of the glacier floating in the Lago

The weather taking over...we really booked it back thinking we were going to get rained on!

We kept thinking the trees looked like something from Nottingham Forrest