region xii - dia 4 in TdP

soooo, this morning started at 5:45am because we were going on an all day trek to see glacier gray. this campsite was really nice and had a nice kitchen/eating area where we had dinner, but the bummer was that it didn't open until like 7am. SO we, once again, made food in the bathroom - the women's shower room to be exact. 6 girls and 2 boys in the bathroom making breakfast. quite a sight to see! and the second meal in a bathroom for me and Colleens.

we departed at 7:15 for the hike and made it to the refugio near the glacier 4 hours later where we stopped and had 'lunch' if you will. this is the picture of raisins, crackers, peanut butter, and a piece of chocolate cake. healthy. rightttt.

then we finished hiking to the mirador for the glacier - it was GORGEOUS. i have never seen ice so blue or so big. and it was weird because it was in the middle of like regular mountains. God is so creative. and then we got creative and decide to descend ALL of the rocks in order to get down to the water....i kept telling Colleens that the other people were probably saying in there heads "those crazy gringos, what are they doing!??" yes. looking back it was NOT very safe, but we survived.

Once we got down there i noticed chunks of ice floating around in the water SUPER close to where we were. and then i decided that i needed to eat a piece of glacier ice. so I ask Antonio if he wouldn't mind using his walking stick to pull up a piece of ice. and he did! he slid it up the rock and i caught it. i then became really excited and a little irrational. i hurriedly took out my camera and was handing it to Colleens to take my picture of me with my baby glacier when it fell! in the process handing it to her we lost track of it. BUT, solely by God's amazing grace, my hand reached down and caught it. I really hadn't even noticed that it had fallen to be honest. I heard it fall, but hadn't realized that it was MY camera. and the rocks where i was sitting formed a slide (which is how we got the ice up) and acted as a shoot for my camera into the water. I have a new appreciation for my camera. and reflexes.

Anyways, we then proceeded to pass around the glacier baby and eat it. . . there are lots of pics. and we saw a condor flying in the sky too on our way up. un día super emocionado.

We then embarked on the journey back, climbing up the tons of rocks that we had climbed down to get to the water. the hike back was only 3.5 hours and Colleens and I immediately took down our tent and packed up, ready to catch the 6:30pm ferry back. We then enjoyed great coffee again and took the bus into Puerto Natales. We got to return our PAINFUL shoes (even today a week and a half later i have bruises on my ankles.) and other equipment and then found a hostel with nice hot showers, warm beds, and heat :)

region xii - dia 4 - tdp dia 3 (101 photos), by Sarah Moredock

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