{"id":131,"date":"2010-11-22T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T23:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2011-02-08T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T09:21:34","slug":"day-25-coyhaique-to-puerto-ibanez-119-k-1750-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Day 25 Coyhaique to Puerto Ibanez 119 k 1750 m"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_231\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-26-Coyhaique-to-Puerto-Ibanez-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-231\" title=\"Stage-26-Coyhaique-to-Puerto-Ibanez-11.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-26-Coyhaique-to-Puerto-Ibanez-11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-26-Coyhaique-to-Puerto-Ibanez-11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-26-Coyhaique-to-Puerto-Ibanez-11.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Colours in a Grey Landscape <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well left the comfortable hotel room for the camp site for bresakfast.\u00a0 Camp site looks more like a vehicle wreckers yard. Started to rain so did a rapid change of riding gear.<\/p>\n<p>Wilbert let us know the glad tidings that the 9 days to El Calafate will be tough.\u00a0 must have been premonition.\u00a0 there is realy not much between here and there, apart from the pamp\u00e0s and wind.\u00a0 Off we go in light rain which soon becomes heavier. we immediately start climbing for the next 3 hours fortunately on sealed road.\u00a0 Feet start to get wet even though I have boots on.\u00a0 Local dog follows 2 of our riders for some k\u00b4s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_232\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-26-Coyhaique-to-Puerto-Ibanez-09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-232\" title=\"Stage-26-Coyhaique-to-Puerto-Ibanez-09.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-26-Coyhaique-to-Puerto-Ibanez-09-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-26-Coyhaique-to-Puerto-Ibanez-09-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulbridgeford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stage-26-Coyhaique-to-Puerto-Ibanez-09.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening on the biggest inland lake in Chile<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We sight a pass ahead and start a long climb. Grey clouds make the scenery invisible.\u00a0 a small downhill and a massive gust of wind from nowhere almost stops me in my tracks.\u00a0 climb again and it the first top in snow. Getting seriously cold as gloves saturated. At 70 k sight the lunch truck.\u00a0 In covered with a blanket and can\u00b4t stop shivering.\u00a0 Ride over for me for the day. Transfer to the camping and provision truck squeezed in with all the food.<\/p>\n<p>Finally get to the camp ground with a Pategonian wind blasting through. Change into dry clothes get mine and Annas stent up and start a fire in a smal open sided hut.\u00a0 At least now warm.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner beers and after dinner head into the small town beside the largest lake in Chile Argentina with Alfonse &amp; Monique. Bottle of red and the owner explains the town used to be a centre for shipping wool across the lake.<\/p>\n<p>all saturated clothes and shoes dried off beside the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well left the comfortable hotel room for the camp site for bresakfast.\u00a0 Camp site looks more like a vehicle wreckers yard. Started to rain so did a rapid change of riding gear. 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