Haz clic aquí para leer en español With Dario’s insight and encouragement, we set out from Piuke Mapu, backtracking a couple kilometers then along backroads to Lago Cholila. While eating…
Story Time: La Malinche
Haz clic aquí para leer en español “When I heard you were coming, I wondered why I was so willing to invite you into my home, never having met…
How Leaving Futaleufú Went to the Dogs
Haz clic aquí para leer en español The effervescent Futaleufú River roared and roiled beside us as we walked toward its namesake town. The name is derived from native Mapuche’s…
Life in Lago Verde
Haz clic aquí para leer en español For the first time since Puerto Natales, when we were at Erratic Rock and had access to their awesome VHS collection, Neon and…
Settling into Transition
Haz clic aquí para leer en español As of late March and four months of thru-hiking Patagonia, we have a rhythm. Comfortable in self-sufficiency and living according to our own expectations….
Cities and Villages of the Aysén Region
Haz clic aquí para leer en español At the time of writing this, it is mid-March and running chainsaws seems to be a countryside pastime throughout Patagonia. From the folks…
Trails and Otherwise through Cerro Castillo
Haz clic aquÍ para leer en español The ferry across Lago General Carrera from Chile Chico was booked, so we ended up spending an extra day there. The tourist information…
Chacabuco to Chile Chico
Haz clic aquÍ para leer en español It is February, we find unexpected respite in Cochrane under a cherry tree in Coce’s back yard. In the grocery stores, the first…
Ruta de los Pioneros: Villa O’Higgins to Cochrane
Click here to read Neon’s account of the journey from Villa O’Higgins through to Cochrane on the Ruta de los Pioneros. Text below. We left ‘Villa,’ as we came to…
Storytime: Priests and Prostitutes
Haz clic aqui para leer en espanol Historically, very few people of influence bothered with remote Patagonia. Two men of the cloth stand out in the memories of the people…
