The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

Our last hike in El Chalten went up again

On a dirt path

And of course there were views of the spikeys.

And condors

Are you tired of the spikeys yet?

If you get tired of the spikeys

You better leave El Chalten

There was also a lake

But it was way to cold for swimming

We saw a butterfly

And the valley

And the town

Then we walked back to the hotel

And took a picture of the monkey puzzle tree

Which puzzled Kerri

After reaching the alternative spikeys

We climbed up a bit

To get a worse view

Then we went back down.

And back towards town.

Through the woods

And the valley

There was another condor soaring overhead.

And a smaller bird too.

When we got nearer town we could see both sets of spikeys at once.

Plus another snow covered spikey.

And the Margarita waterfall

The spikeys were visible this morning

But we’d already been there

So we took a different path

Through the valley

Because we were getting smarter

Mountains are much nicer when you don’t have to climb them.

This path even has shorter spikeys

They are actually even spikier

But the path to them is level

It’s just a lot of walking

Through a lot of rock

And then you get close to the spikeys

Yay

Spikeys.

The spikeys were right behind us.

But we couldn’t see them at all.

So we turned back the way we came from.

We couldn’t see the town either, because it was too far away.

It’s somewhere over there

There was still a lot of snow on the mountain.

It completely covered the lake, so we couldn’t see that either.

You could see the edges of the big spikey when the clouds blew a bit.

Matt was cold and didn’t want to wait for the clouds to blow away.

But Kerri insisted long enough to see a whole third of a spikey

Then we walked back down.

And saw a bird.

And the clouds were still there.

By the time they cleared we were far away again.

And then we made it back to town