Views from Cerro Solo, which required a bit of #mountaineering. Cerro Solo from the approach. Cerro Torre and Fitzroy from the summit. Southern Patagonian icefield.
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Cerro Torre and Fitzroy from Tumbado, an easy walkup to their south.
Approaching El Chaltén. Fitzroy visible, and Cerro Torre hidden in the clouds to its left. Not visible: the relentless headwind.
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@Gigawatt121@mastodon.art Bummer to see “Be Excellent to Each Other” removed, since it’s kind of the point of the piece. But I get not wanting to reignite an ancient, dull flamewar. Maybe it should read “this is why we can’t have nice things”?
Paso Mayer to Argentina
https://www.drdirtbag.com/2023/02/04/paso-mayer-to-argentina/
@benfinch@mstdn.social Before you cut the thing open, try just poking a hole in the cap with a pin. That will, of course, glue itself shut, but you can keep using it like that for awhile.
@jds@sfba.social Kearsarge should be *deep* this Spring! I have some friends who do long tours over the Sierra Crest, and their photos show a whole different world.
@Marina@mountains.social Hey Marina! I’m more a mild mountaineer than a climber, but my favorite place is the Tetons in Wyoming. Probably the closest thing we have to the Alps in the lower 48.
@bergmeister@mountains.social That’s it for this weather window, but I hope to see them from more angles before I’m done. It’s a shame the phone pic doesn’t do the icefield justice.
@isazi@akademienl.social 😆 I have cold hands, so I have three pairs on this trip. Amazingly non-windy yesterday, though, especially compared to the brutal headwind riding here.
@pzmyers@octodon.social LOL. What a strange person: at some point he managed to push electric vehicles and launch technology forward, to the benefit of mankind. He still has the means to amuse himself in ways few people can imagine, like shooting other people’s corpses at Mars. Yet here he is clicking “refresh” on a web analytics page, sad and angry that his numbers are going down.
@jds@sfba.social Gotcha. Hopefully that will make it possible to refill without yard sale-ing the rest of the pack. I currently have an UD FKT pack that is particularly bad that way.
@jds@sfba.social I look forward to seeing it. So much fast-and-light mountaineering gear makes me wonder if they do any product testing, but I still lack both sewing machine and skills. That water bladder sleeve looks kinda fragile, but good idea if it’s sewn outside the pack.
Swimming upstream to El Chaltén
https://www.drdirtbag.com/2023/02/05/swimming-upstream-to-el-chalten/
@nickheer@c.im Kinda typical of “digital assistants.” To understand how to use them, you need to know enough about computers to reverse engineer what they’re actually doing, in this case basically saying “tell application ‘Weather’ to …” I guess it’s better than a Deep Learning version of Siri making up sunrise and sunset times with no explanation and no understandable reason why it is failing.