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November 9, second part

This page collects the pictures from November 9 that are not in the first part.

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On the trail 1 On the trail 2 Beautiful views along the trail. Notice how very high above the floodplain and the lakes we are. Left thumbnail (big image, small); right (big image, small)

Panorama  farleft Panorama left Panorama right Panorama far right
If I knew how to paste these together electronically, they’d make a nice panorama. You can see them separately, though, as far left (big image, small), left (big image, small), right (big image, small), and far right (big image, small).

One of the toughest parts of this day’s hike was the long walk down a fairly steep slope. I wanted Mark to take a picture while we were doing that part of the trip, but he was concentrating so hard on not missing his step that he told me just to keep walking. If I can get to it, I may insert a picture that Olivier took of Mark and me picking our way along this tricky path.

Panorama  farleft Panorama right You can see that I’m fond of getting dead trees in my pictures. I especially like the right one. Left picture (big image, small); right (big image, small).

Backlit scene As the sun moved out of the north and down into the west, we got some backlit scenes. As we walked, we were also getting closer to the Cuernos del Paine themselves: they’re at the extreme right. (Big image, small.)

Cuernos in view! Farther along, we got better and better views of the Horns. (Big image, small.)

Buffet snack We got to a place where our bus was waiting for us with a buffet snack. We were more than ready for this! Almost everybody in our group is pictured here, but I think only Mark and Dennis are showing their faces. (Big image, small.)

Cuernos in view! Cuernos in view! From the place where we had the snack, we went in the bus to the jumping-off place to the Hostería Las Torres, our hotel. Along the way Charlie asked our bus driver to stop the bus here, where we had a view of Lago Pehoé and the Hostería Pehoé, which is the building on the island in the right-hand picture. Left picture (big image, small); right (big image, small).

Cuernos in view! One more shot of the Horns, taken in the shadow of our bus, while we were waiting for the special van to take us in to the Hostería Las Torres. Regular buses are too wide to get over the very old and narrow bridge in to the Hostería, so they have a few specially-manufactured vans for transport of the guests and their luggage. (Big image, small.)
When we got in to the Hostería, we had a shower, took in a quick Pisco Sour, and had a nice meal, in preparation for the next day’s walk, the longest of the tour, at about 16 miles. But not the hardest: that would be the day after.

Previous day’s pictures; first half of this day’s pictures; next day’s pictures
Mark’s pages for this day: first part; second part; third part.


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