If you are thinking about the TMB, the time to start planning is NOW Sylvia and I completed the Tour du Mont Blanc in 2018…it remains the most impressive adventure we’ve ever taken together. If you are considering doing the trek yourself this year, it’s time to make that decision and — if in the affirmative — start your planning. […]
Can I Hike Patagonia?
Patagonia: Could I Hike It Too? Brian and Sylvia managed to complete a pair of major top shelf trekking destinations in 2019, both in the region of South America known as Patagonia…the extreme southern tip of the continent, where the scenery is otherworldly but the weather conditions often brutish. Some may be wondering if this is something that they could […]
The Long Way Home To The Other Fitz Roy
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 The Mountain
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 […]
Cerro Torre
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 […]
Washout at El Chaltèn
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. […]
Paine Grande
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 […]
Into The Grey: Lago and Glacier Grey
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 […]
The French Valley, AKA The Day That Would Not End
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.
The Horns of Paine
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 […]