We began the first day of our trip by waking up at 6:00am and catching a bus into the park at 7:00am. All was great, we had a 6 person team (Owen, Rustyn, his sons, Finn and Noah, a friend named Gerinamo, and myself). After a 2.5 hour bus ride, we arrived at the boat to take us on a 30 minute journey to our starting point and our first camp site at Camp Pehoe.
We arrived at our camp site with very cold weather and LOTS of rain....the camp site is a Refugio which was almost like a ski lodge. You can rent a room, eat a hot meal, or hang out in the bar if you want to..... I wouldn´t call this ¨roughing¨ it by any means, but I must say the cocktail at the end of the night was great! This camp site had a cooking area for all of the campers that provided fuel to run stoves and drinking water. This is essentially where people are either starting their hike, or ending it.
After setting up camp, we began our first hike that would take us out to Glacier Grey.
There were lots of beautiful things to see along the way....
The hike to the glacier was great. Being that it was so cold, we were hiking pretty fast to stay warm. The winds can be so strong here it´s unbelievable.
You can see the glacier in the back ground.... at this point, it was almost 8pm. It stays light until about 10:30-11:00pm which allows for sleeping in every morning and having a nice long day to hike late into the evening.
We began the first day of our trip by waking up at 6:00am and catching a bus into the park at 7:00am. All was great, we had a 6 person team (Owen, Rustyn, his sons, Finn and Noah, a friend named Gerinamo, and myself). After a 2.5 hour bus ride, we arrived at the boat to take us on a 30 minute journey to our starting point and our first camp site at Camp Pehoe.
We arrived at our camp site with very cold weather and LOTS of rain....the camp site is a Refugio which was almost like a ski lodge. You can rent a room, eat a hot meal, or hang out in the bar if you want to..... I wouldn´t call this ¨roughing¨ it by any means, but I must say the cocktail at the end of the night was great! This camp site had a cooking area for all of the campers that provided fuel to run stoves and drinking water. This is essentially where people are either starting their hike, or ending it.
After setting up camp, we began our first hike that would take us out to Glacier Grey.
There were lots of beautiful things to see along the way....
The hike to the glacier was great. Being that it was so cold, we were hiking pretty fast to stay warm. The winds can be so strong here it´s unbelievable.
You can see the glacier in the back ground.... at this point, it was almost 8pm. It stays light until about 10:30-11:00pm which allows for sleeping in every morning and having a nice long day to hike late into the evening.
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