Patagonia Trek 2018 Begins!

Hello family and friends,

The team members arrived to the argentinian town of El Calafate safe and sound. We spent one night there and the following day we enjoyed a bus ride beside Lago Argentina and the Viedma lake. In the afternoon we hiked for two hours to prepare us for today’s hike to Torre lake. We had a fabulous picnic lunch by the Laguna Torre and then descended by the same route we came and we are preparing for tomorrow’s hike to Laguna de los Tres. All the team are in good spirits and looking forward to the next stage of our adventure.
Communications are not always good but we will do our best to keep in touch.
Early start tomorrow so we’ll send posts as and when we can.
Hope you enjoy our cybercast. We’ll let you know how we are doing as and when it happens.

Ciao for now
The Patagonia Team with Viedma Lake in the background
Enjoying the view from one of the lookouts
Picnic lunch by Torre lake
Hiking back to El Chalten town in beautiful weather

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