But not for Michele - she's off on another hike. I'm trying to shake a cold before it turns into something worse, so I'm resting and checking out the town of El Chalten.
Don't ever complain about your WiFi speeds, please. At home, the speed test gives a result of 18.59. Here, I'm getting .12. That's not a typo, it's 150 times slower. Yikes. Just took 45 minutes to upload 12 photos to Flickr.
Give thanks to living in Canada. Never really thought about it before, but no one really cares if you leave. Here, there are always two border checkpoints. One for leaving the country and then another for entering the next country.
Whoever invented hiking has obviously never seen a helicopter or an ATV. I'm just saying.
Went horseback riding, and it was good. A little scary coming down the mountain on a wet, slippery, rocky trail, but the horse seemed to figure it out. I assume he had a vested interest in not falling off the mountain either. Had a palomino that looked just like Trigger, so I figured I was Roy Rogers until the guide said I had the "Barbie" horse - I assume because of the blonde hair. Took a lot of the machismo out of it.
We're in El Chalten and experiencing what seem to be record temperatures. Went out hiking yesterday with a T-shirt, long sleeved shirt, windshirt and jacket. Got up to about 22C, windless and cloudless. Needless to say, we were overdressed for a 20 km hike up and down a mountain.
On the way down, we encountered a French woman who had fallen on the trail (on her face) and apparently broken her arm. Our guide had a radio and was able to radio the park patrol to come and get her and stretcher her out (about an hour each way). We heard today that she was treated locally and was on her way home to France. Lucky for her that we were there, because no one else seemed to have a radio.
Our guide is also a psychologist. Go figure.
Off to find somewhere to eat for dinner now. Tomorrow we hike for 3 hours on a glacier, in crampons.
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