February 16, Sat.
The day dawned with rain and high winds but we dressed for the weather and started out anyway. Our goal was to climb 2300 ft to the Base of the Torres (towers) lookout, about 5 miles up. About a mile into the hike most of us decided we had had enough of the high winds (estimated at 35-45 mph) throwing the rain and possibly some sleet into our faces. Five hardy souls plus our guide, Carlos, pushed on. We were told they only made it another mile or so before conditions worsened and they turned back before they could be pushed off the mountain!
Plan B - Turu drove us to the top of a saddle at the edge of the park and we hiked about 3 miles through meadows filled with guanacos, a relative of alpaca and camels. We also kept an eye out for a puma but we never saw her. The wind was much less here and the rain let up so it was a pleasant way to spend part of the afternoon.
I added up the number of miles we hiked over 11 days and it came to 73 miles but my Fitbit recorded 114 miles and 274,000 steps!!!
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