El Calafate

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Perito Moreno Glacier

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Looking at the mineral rich rivers flowing from the...
The El Calafate airport. Hopelessly inadequate...
Taking off from El Calafate passing Lago Argentina,...
Cerro Fitz Roy rears it's 11,000 foot head from over 200...
Lago Argentino is huge. A week later, our drive to El...
The color of Lago Argentino was amazing, especially...
After we landed in El Calafate, we were worried we would...
Turns out a lot of Patagonia is a lot of nothing. Very...
Crossing one of the rivers flowing from Lago Argentino.
Stopping the bus to check out a giant ice berg that had...
Pretty grizzly self portrait.
Llamas!
Dinner in El Calafate. Things here were very touristy...
Jay's dinner. Way better than mine.
Jay, seemingly glowing from behind.
Jay's eye. Zoomed in as far as my camera would go from...
The Perito Mereno glacier, as viewed from the...
The surface of a glacier is like another planet.
The scale of this thing is hard to capture in pictures. ...
The topology at the toe of Perito Moreno provides for a...
Looking north at the face of the glacier, which is...
Jay and John at Perito Moreno Glacier.
Jay and John at Perito Moreno Glacier.
As we stood and watched we noticed it was getting...
Beautiful ice formations at the toe of the Perito Moreno Glacier.
That semi-circular patch of water without any icebergs...
Fantastic deep blue colors being transmitted through the ice.
The semi-circular patch grew as the waves pushed...
A rather large boat that takes tourists close to the...
Watching from part of the kilometers of observation...
It was starting to get a little rainy, unfortunately.
Jay eating lunch.
Jay enjoying his lunch.
Jay, watching the glacier carefully for more calves. ...
Jay and Perito Moreno Glacier.
Kersplash! A big section of glacier falling into the water.
Dark blue ice behind the fresh cut.
Huge section of the glacier falling off. I just...
The fact that this shot and the previous shot were taken...
The aforementioned under-construction observation deck.
More glacier shots.
Another section of glacier falling to its death. Or...
Another splash.
And a third.
Getting dark and rainy. Perfect time to get on a boat...
The Perito Moreno Glacier. Too bad there was fog...
Another view from a different angle.
Under-construction new fancy observation deck.
All the things you can and cannot do.
Jay chatting with one of the other people in our tour...
View from much higher up (near the bus) that shows the...
Jay and John on the bus to meet the boat to go to the glacier.
On a boat! Headed for the glacier. Jay on the left.
On a boat!
The boat took us quite close to the front of the glacier.
Getting off the boat on the other side of the lake. ...
Trying to stay dry in the drizzle.
Our guide (in the blue jacket / hat) gives us a lecture...
During the half-kilometer walk through the woods to the...
On our hike to the glacier. Most of this is barren land...
Where's Waldo? Jay's in there somewhere.
Jay, waiting for the rest of the group.
Very dramatic from lake-level. This was about as close...
Quite pretty.
A self-timer shot that was a bit crooked.
Like another planet. Another group returns from...
I think I saw these in REI's latest catalog for next year.
Jay gets fitted for crampons. This is probably the...
Jay gets fitted for crampons.
Our guide puts some crampons on my running shoes. Sweet!
Is this too tight?
Look at those new fancy kicks!
Getting yet another lecture on what to do, and what not...
Our guide was the only one who got crampons designed...
Hiking up onto the glacier...
Jay, doing a startlingly similar reenactment of this...
Jay, grinning from ear to ear.
John, next to a little lagoon in the ice.
Similarly to the creepy feeling you get when standing on...
Underwater glacial lagoon shot.
Trudging up over to the next crevasse. Or guide says...
Looking into a deep, deep crevasse. I guess if you fell...
Our guide pointing out some feature to Jay.
Lost on an alien ice planet.
Jay, having fun with our non-front-pointing crampons.
Jay on the Perito Moreno Glacier.
Waiting while our guide instructs us not to fall into a crevasse.
The color of these lagoons was so intense!
Jay walking around a crevasse.
Melty puddles of icy slush on top of the glacier.
Underwater shot of glacier puddle.
Underwater dirt on top of the glacier.
Climbing a big hill.
Our guides help us over a particularly steep ridge.
By this point it had actually started to rain pretty...
John on the Perito Moreno Glacier.
On the Perito Moreno Glacier.
Deep crevasse. I wonder how far it goes down.
Another planet!
Jay next to some seracs and crevasses.
John next to a big flooded crevasse.
Poor Jay.
Underwater shot looking into one of the submerged crevasses.
One of our guides.
Jay and John self portrait on the Perito Moreno Glacier.
At the end of our glacier mini-trek, as they called it,...
Heading down the hill for some free scotch.
Free scotch and alfajores ... Argentinian cookies filled...
Ten year old scotch and ten thousand year old ice.
Based on the number of tourists they see, I guess they...
Scotch and cookies.
Walking back to our boat to take us back to the bus to...
Drying out on the boat ride back across the lake.
We were supposed to go up close to the glacier for a...
Jay on the boat ride back across Lago Argentino.
Jay and Perito Moreno in the background.
View out the window from our hostel in El Calafate. This...
Martin stokes the fire for a massive barbecue....
Fire and meat.
Two Australians traveling separately who were wearing...
Meat is all gone.
Jay had picked up some gelato in town and so we had some...
Gelato from downtown El Calafate. I don't know where Jay...