Argentina

I spent two weeks in the Northern region of Patagonia, Argentina. I based out of the well known resort town of Bariloche. The town has a distinctly European feel with lots of great food (chocolate to the max), fun people and really tasty inexpensive red wine. The town also boasts a great bus system that can get you most anywhere you want to go pretty quickly. I spent a few days touring and hiking around town, about a week climbing up in the mountains South of town and a few days at nearby Mount Tronador. The weather was super stable and warmer than usual. I ended up traveling down there alone as my planned partner got injured the week before the trip, but I was lucky to find a couple of fun people to climb with up in the hills; Ty from Wyoming and Mel from Alaska. All in all it was a great trip (except for the bout with the Argentinian stomach bugs) and I would definitely go back, maybe next time going further south as well... (please excuse the scruffy layout of my blog, but the editing tools available on blogger are quite minimal and a bit testy...)