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Patagonia Climbing Adventures :: Día VI & VII

Posted by Forest, 05 February 2011

January 29

9:00 I awake with a carefully crafted plan to spend today relaxing around el Refugio shooting Sean and Nico slack-lining - and thereby avoodomg the 2+ hour bushwhack/scramble to the adjacent valley to climb el Campanile with Blake and Scott. It's not that I don't like climbing, but having surpassed my expectations yesterday by climbing a 5.10 pitch on M2 (broken hand in tow) as well getting a number of solid shots of the guys climbing, I feel validated in a rest day.

10:00 Over a breakfast of fried sausage and polenta cakes topped with leftover pasta sauce, Blake...

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Patagonia Climbing Adventures :: Día IV & V

Posted by Forest, 03 February 2011

Day IV & V we climb, shoot, climb, shoot, grub, sleep, repeat.

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Patagonia Climbing Adventures :: Día II & III

Posted by Forest, 02 February 2011

8:00 Sunrise in Frey, and I can't sleep. Sunburn on my shoulders and my general stench, combine with the whipping wind outside to bring me crawling out of the tent. Yesterday was good. I tested out the hand on a couple of pitches and we topped out on El Piramidal tower. Hand held up OK. Spent the rest of the day jugging pitches (ascending a fixed rope via mechanical means) and shooting Scott and Blake. Challenging lighting conditions, but hopefully salvageable. I should have made more time to prepare for the trip, but Japan and holidays back in NC made it difficult.

12:00 Today...

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Patagonia Climbing Adventures :: Día I

Posted by Forest, 01 February 2011

January 24

11:00 We arrived yesterday in Buenos Aires. From there we caught another flight to Bariloche (located in northern Patagonia) and spent the night sleeping on a pebble beach on the outskirts of town. We woke to the sound of weed whackers and a beautiful view of the lake and mountains that bookend it to the west and east.

Today we hop a bus to the trail head, and from there hike on to Frey - where we will set up base camp for the next week's climbing adventures.

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