Hiking/Trekking

Patagonia by the numbers

Posted by pdittman on February 9th, 2016 in '16 - Patagonia, Chile

First, our “W”, we mostly followed the ‘traditional’ “W” circuit – starting on the western branch and heading eastward. When traveling from Ref. Paine Grande to Ref. Cuernos, we did the central leg, following the path through to the Mirador Britanico. And we followed the shortcut when trekking from Ref. Cuernos to Ref. el Chileno. Unfortunately, our plan had been to visit the Mirador Torres del Paine on the morning of 4-Feb, but the morning broke with clouds over the entire Valle Ascensio and the Torres del Paine, so we never did make the full trek into see the towers.

Our GPS trax through the “W”. We started in the west, headed eastward, adding a little squiggle on the last day as a day hike from Hotel Las Torres

From a numbers perspective, this was a 100 mile trip. According to the data on Jeanne’s fitbit, we clocked 100 miles, door to door. That includes everything from our travel days to/from South America, our trekking, of course, and our excursion to Perito Moreno glacier and our exploration of Buenos Aires barrios.

Our longest was something north of 17.5 miles – on the trek from Ref. Paine Grande to Ref. Cuernos – the center leg of the “W” – with our visit to the mirador Britanico in the French Valley.

here’s the full list of fitbit stats:

date	Steps	Miles	Floors	activity/hike
28-Jan	6,614	2.8	15	Fly through Santiago, arrive and dinner in Punta Arenas
29-Jan	11,943	5.0	33	Arrive Punta Natales, explore town
30-Jan	20,972	8.8	204	Enter TDP, boat to Paine Grande, hike to Refugio Grey
31-Jan	21,354	9.0	151	Return to Refugio Paine Grande
1-Feb	42,277	17.7	366	Hike to Refugio Cuernos via French Valley and Britanico
2-Feb	22,654	9.5	243	Hike Refugio Cuernos to Refugio Chileno
3-Feb	9,096	3.8	44	Hike Refugio Chileno to Hotel Las Torres
4-Feb	17,694	7.4	121	Day hike around Las Torres, depart park to El Calafate
5-Feb	22,334	9.4	108	El Calafate and Perito Moreno glacier
6-Feb	15,450	6.5	21	Travel to Buenos Aires
7-Feb	10,403	4.4	7	San Telmo fair and market
8-Feb	18,082	7.6	28	Visit Teatro Colon and Cafe Tortoni
9-Feb	13,446	5.6	7	Recoleta Cemetery and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
10-Feb	5,545	2.5	15	Return home
	237,864	100.0	1363

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