Hiking and Adventures with Brian and Sylvia
Patagonia: The Return Home **Completed in November 2019, The Torres del Paine ‘W’ hike and Fitz Roy are Sylvia and Brian’s fifth and sixth BucketList adventure completed together, respectively. We have never ventured further to put a hike in our bucket. And so it was over. Except for the long, long road back.
Fitz Roy: Day 3 **Completed in November 2019, Fitz Roy (Los Glaciares National Park of Argentina) is Sylvia and Brian’s sixth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike.** The day had finally come.This was the hike that we were looking forward to perhaps more than any other on this trip. This […]
Fitz Roy: Day 2 **Completed in November 2019, Fitz Roy (Los Glaciares National Park of Argentina) is Sylvia and Brian’s sixth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike.** Our second day in El Chaltèn began gray and cloudy, just as the last one had. But the promise of a better forecast […]
Fitz Roy: Day 1 **Completed in November 2019, Fitz Roy (Los Glaciares National Park of Argentina) is Sylvia and Brian’s sixth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike.** The wind blew with vengeance most of our first night in El Chaltèn, but by morning had tapered off to a light breeze. […]
Patagonia: Chile to Argentina **In November 2019 The Torres del Paine ‘W’ Trek became Sylvia and Brian’s fifth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have every ventured for a hike. Immediately afterward, we hit the road for Argentina to tackle yet another Bucket List adventure…Fitz Roy.*** Our adventure in Patagonia covered two weeks in total, and […]
Patagonia: The W Hike, Day 5 **Completed in November 2019, The Torres del Paine ‘W’ hike is Sylvia and Brian’s fifth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike. The word Paine, as in Torres del, is correctly pronounced “Pie-nay.” The word is thought to be indigenous Patagonian in origin (it has […]
Patagonia: The W Hike, Day 4 **Completed in November 2019, The Torres del Paine ‘W’ hike is Sylvia and Brian’s fifth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike. With three legs of our hike completed, we had only two more to go. One, really; the last of these was simply a […]
Patagonia: The W Hike, Day 3 **Completed in November 2019, The Torres del Paine ‘W’ hike is Sylvia and Brian’s fifth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike. No leisurely start today. We were up early for what promised to be the hardest day of this Trek.
Patagonia: The W Hike, Day 2 **Completed in November 2019, The Torres del Paine ‘W’ hike is Sylvia and Brian’s fifth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike. The first day had ended poorly, and day two didn’t start out any better. It had rained almost all night. But we were […]
Patagonia: The W Hike, Day 1 **Completed in November 2019, The Torres del Paine ‘W’ hike is Sylvia and Brian’s fifth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike. (We are skipping past our first full day in Puerto Natales, which was basically spent on buses in hot pursuit of our ‘misplaced’ […]