day 09 three towers
Ride: JB bus to Torres Del Paine � Price: 11mp, 3h return � Time: 2:30pm (also have morning schedule 6:30am,7:30am,8:30am)
Torres Del Paine � Price: park entrance 12p � Bus dropped off at Lago Amarga � Comment: there is no longer solo hiker restriction.
Hike: Lago Amarga to camp Las Torres � Distant: 7km � there is a mini bus for 3500p (2000p rebate at camp side) � most people took bus, I saw a French guy walking when I was on the bus (he reached camp Chileno the same time as I did, that's how slow I walked)
Hike: Camp Las Torres to camp Chileno � Distant: 3km � Time: 2hr normally � Start: 6:00pm � End: 8:10pm � Load: Full Pack (15kg) � Mostly up and down hill, with heavy equipment. Another alternative is to camp at Las Torres, which is nicer but crowded. Only if you are interested in sunrise (to see the flaming towers), it will make sense to camp at Chileno or Campamento Torres.
Hotel: Camp Chileno � Price: 3.5mp camping � Rating: bearable (it's a good camp site, the rating is relative to a hotel).
Night comes late in the summer of Patagonia. 8:30pm and the sky is still bright.
� I woke up at 5:00am, debating whether I should go for sun rise or stay in sleeping bag. I saw too many sunrises in my life so I decided to sleep. But my sleeping bag was too cold, so I woke up any way.
5:30am � sunrise at 6:00am, too late for sunrise and too early for sunset.
Hike: Camp Chileno to mirador Torres � Distant: 3.5km � Time: 1:45 hr normally � Start: 5:30am � End: 7:00am � Comment: only saw 3 people there watching sunrise � Load: Day pack
This picture was first constructed with Soldier Kitty. But the solder Kitty DIA (die in action), she dropped into the crack of the boulders under Torres towers, (rescue was impossible), so sumo man became her substitute.
11/11/02 8:26 am Real time: Torres Lookout � I'm cold, watching some mini tornadoes blowing over the lake. � My hands can't write very well on this PDA. � This place is icily lonesome � I just ate breakfast
� someone said they saw a puma chasing a big rabbit near camp Torres
Hike: Camp Chileno to mirador Torres � Distant: 3.5km � Time: 1:45 hr normally � Start: 10:00am � End: 11:30am � Load: Day pack � I went down slowly
Hike: Camp Chileno to Camp Cuernos � Start: 12:30pm � Pause: 2:30pm at Torres intersection � Distant to pause: 3km � Time to pause: 2hr normally � Continue: 2:30pm � End: 8:10pm at Camp Cuernos � Time: 4hr normally � Distant: 12km � Load: Fully packed, 15kg (my pack was unbalanced, that's why I was so slow, I balanced it better the next day, much better) � I guessed I was the slowest moving object in the whole national park. There weren't any amphibians (e.g. turtles) in the park, so I have no competitor.
Many lakes, many colors.
