some holiday-season style community meals and some nice days of sport climbing around town. The snow continues to pummel the Frey/Catedral area and we must wait until another weather window presents itself. I can't say I really mind: the slower pace is a welcome addition to my life the past week and I have enjoyed growing great friendships with all the cool people I met while climbing in Frey. We have enjoyed tons of asado, papas fritas, and over-indulging in patagonian wine and beer. I am grateful to have met such a good group with which to spend the holiday and also to have a group of solid climbers to accompany me in my experience of the beautiful Patagonian alpine. Tomorrow presents a high pressure weather window of nearly endless good weather. We will leave early on an impromptu return to Frey to enjoy more of the amazing climbing.
Merry Christmas.
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| Church in the outskirts of Bariloche |
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| Overlooking the Laguna |
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| An example of the wear Patagonia will put on your clothing and equipment. So far I've retired a stove, a pair of socks, 2 pairs of shoes, and many of my technical garments are developing holes. This sock had been washed and was so hole-ridden and crusty that I had to toss it. |
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| View from la Ventana, sport climbing area |
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| Lindsey climbing some unnamed 5.11a around Bariloche |
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| Weird structure in a park near downtown Bariloche |
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| Bariloche streets overlooking the laguna |
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| In a nice tourist town like Bariloche, there are occasionally nice little reminders you are on a third-world continent. For example, this bus stop shelter. |
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| School, another reminder that you are far from home. |
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