Saturday, March 14, 2009

Laguna de Los Tres

Laguna de los tres, one of the many day hikes from camp Poincenot, stands for lake of the three. The three makes reference to the three glaciars that feed the lake. You can see all thee when you are on its shores
This is actually the bluest form of blue I have ever seen, be it in water, sky, crayons or what have you.
The glaciar is right there, in front of you, thus it is needless to say it is absolutely impossible to bath in, despite how blue and inviting it might look. Three second of water up to your shins and your knees buckle.
Laguna de las piedras was anotehr lake, also about three hours from the campsite.
The charm of las piedras is its piedras... gigantic bolder you have to overcome in order to get to it. At las piedras, you can easily get to and walk on the actual glaciar. I dont know how safe it really is to walk on a glaciar and seeing how I was utterly alone and the last person I had seen had been 4 hours prior, I figured I should just watch from the distance and stay safe.

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