Our Hotel or Estancia is called Eolo. It is very nice.
We drove to the Perito Moreno Glacier. It is the only glacier that is growing. It snows and is cold on top and creates new ice as the bottom melts. The glacier is as high (above the water) as a 15 story building. We watched and heard the calving, great big cracking booms!
Scott and I wanted to hike on the glacier so we had to lie about our
ages! Usually you want to be older, but they won't take you if you are
over 40. My birth date changed for this, BUT, we were better with the
crampons on the ice than the 20 year olds. The guides could tell we had
ice climbed before. We took a boat for about an hour and then had to
hike for and hour thru the moraine to where we put on a harness and
crampons. We walked all over the glacier and skirted around crevasses.
It looks like moonscape with meringue peaks all over. Hiked about 6
miles. Beautiful.
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| Eolo |
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| Scott looks like he could be on the moon! |
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| A deep crevase |
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| Be careful where you step |
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| Crampons |
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| Barb |
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| We don't look a day over 35! |
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| The trail up to the glacier hike |
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| Waterfalls along the way |
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| Bridges |
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| Dirty whipping cream |
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| Don't step back! |
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