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Things we have learned on a 5 day 'W' trek in Torres Del Paine National Park, in Southern Chile.
1. Team Hiles are not natural campers
2. It is possible to walk over 100km in 5 days with a full backpack and remain married
3. When given unseasonably good weather, the treking is actually quite pleasurable (no sign of the trademark 120kph gusts of wind or rain - sorry Jey & Amy)
4. 5 days only really requires one shower, tops
4b. and no razor
5. Dan does not know the words to any major musical, but now at least he knows Evita.
6. People who wake in their tent and (with gusto) sing along to their i phone alarm at 6.30am should be suffocated in said tent.
7. If you eat only rice, pasta and porridge for 5 days your bowels come to a standstill
8. Although waking Rhian at 4.30 am to vertically hike for 2hrs in the dark may put you officially 'on thin ice', the sunrise across the 3 two-kilmoter high granite domes might redeem you, as the domes turn from firey orange to red.
8b. As will bringing a sleeping bag and bowl of hot porridge to watch the sunrise with
10. Having 'overwalked' my wife during the last 4 weeks, she is pretty nippy on the inclines, I was oredered on several occasions to 'get a move on'
11. I have been officially informed 'this is the fittest i will be in my life - its downhill from here'.
12. If a mosquitoe bites you on the eye, you get a rather fetching beaten wife look, and when mentioning this, be clear to people you have only just met you are joking.
13. Puma's really dont hunt tourtists, though you can't trust a husband for reassurance, nor 10 strangers, but by the time you have bothered 25 people you can begin to relax.
Off now to Ushuaia - the worlds southernmost town - brrrr - and we look forward to our next surprise guest on the 8th April in Uruguay - Fiona!
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Lou Best blog entry! I've laughed my socks clean off!!