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Sendero Cascadas
A nice spot to spend the night in Parque Pumalin. Doug Tompkins really did a superb job when he created the infrastructure for this huge park. Fun hike on el sendero cascadas. This suspension bridge is over a glacier-fed stream.… Continue reading
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Futaleufu
We took a detour off the Carretera Austral to reach Futaleufu, a town and river well- known as one of the most exciting whitewater rivers in the world. We have both done a nice amount of exciting class III/IV river… Continue reading
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Fiordo Comau
The ferry trip up the fjord was a voyage of non-stop natural wonders. Fiordo Comau is the nexus of the Chilean aquaculture industry. Unfortunately there are a number of articles regarding the environmental issues of fish farming in Chile and… Continue reading
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Volcan Osorno
An inauspicious start to my trip….United canceled my flight to Houston yesterday where Don and I were to meet and catch an overnight flight to Santiago de Chile. However Don made it and was able to get to our first… Continue reading
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Return to Patagonia
Posted 1/14/24. My good buddy Don and I were talking last summer about a classic South American road trip he was reading about. The route is known as the Carretera Austral, or Southern Highway, and construction was begun in 1976… Continue reading
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