Feb 7
Today we did the longest and hardest hike of the whole tour - 12 miles (my Fitbit said 14 miles!) We walked along the river for 5 miles then hiked up a moraine so that we had a fabulous view of Cerro (Mount) Fitz Roy with part of its glacier, Piedras Blancas (stones of white) showing beneath its peak and the glacier lake below that.
The hike up the moraine was over one mile and as far as we were concerned very brutal! But…the views along the way were beautiful, and our lunch spot at the top of the moraine was a great view of the mountains even though Fitz Roy was covered in clouds. The peak next to Fitz Roy is named Poincenot, after a French climber.
The glacier is the same one we saw on the way up but from a different point of view. Mount Fitz Roy is not the tallest in this range but it is technically the most difficult to climb making it attractive to climbers. The lake below the peak is called Laguna de los Tres or Three Lakes.
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