Hey Everyone, Well our trip is just about over. We leave El Chalten on March 3 at 8am for our marathon journey all the way back to So Cal. Luckily for us though the weather gods allowed us to have 1 more excursion into the mountains. We tried to hike in to the Torre Valley [...]
Hey Everyone, What a crazy week it’s been down here in the land of wind & rock. The weather has been really fooling everyone lately, yet we embarked on another foray to the Torre Valley. We were a bit disappointed to see all the walls plastered with fresh snow & rime ice as we had [...]
Hey Everyone! Here’s the latest update from the Woolly Crew Patagonia Expedition 2008/2009. After festering in town for a couple weeks during the incessant mal tiempo, a few promising days appeared on the forecast. A one-day window appeared followed a few days later by a 40 hour window of warm temps and low winds. Our [...]
Hey Everyone, Here is the next installment of photos from our trip. Most of them are from our last adventure on Aguja Guillaumet. The first pic (2779) is of the North and West Faces of (right to left) Guillaumet, Mermoz, and FitzRoy from our bivy site at Piedras Negras. The first half of the route [...]
Hey Everyone, Sorry about the mass email thing again-time constraints. Anyway, I just wanted to pass along the message that Erik & I succeded on our first summit in the Fitz Roy range. We topped out on Aguja Guillamet on Sunday afternoon after climbing the Amy Couloir. It was not the ideal climbing day we [...]
Hey Everyone! I think I finally got some pics to send out for you from our first foray into the patagonian wilds. It´s been a long frustrating battle with the computers here and the slow satellite internet connection, but I think it should work. The first pic is of me crossing the Rio Fitzroy on [...]
The true patagonia weather & experience is now fully upon us. The wind is GNARLY! I swear it would blow a small child away. We lucked out and went in together on a small apartment with 2 other american climbers I met in Ouray several years back. It´s great to have our own kitchen for [...]
Well here is another update for you. Sorry there are no photos yet, they´ll be coming soon. The weather looks like it´s going to be a little more typical for the next couple of weeks-WINDY! We´ll see what we can do. Well things are going well down here in Patagonia, actually things are going exactly [...]
We have been wrapped up in a whirlwind of travel and exitement. We travelled for 36 hors straight from Capenteria-LAX-Atlanta-Buenos Aires-El Calafate-and then the bus to El Chalten got us here just after sunset. We were treated to an amazing sunset glowing Fitzroy and Cerro Torre pink, followed by a clear night full of stars. [...]
