Trekking Cerro Lopez

The first day takes us up to Cerro Lopez starting off from those lakes you can see below. Hard work! Although Craig tried to convince me that an ascent where you climb 1000m every mile is not very steep at all... not funny!

But it was worth it. We finally arrived in the refugio at dawn to be told that the guy running the place has gone down to town for a few days and we were on our own with one ARgentinian guy. GREAT! Took us forever to figure out how to work the gas and the food in the rather.... rustic (?) kitchen but all was well in the end and we had a fun evening with lots of broken Spanish and our little pocket dictionary doing the rounds. Hilarious!

And when we woke up in the morning we were greeted with a beautiful sunrise over the lakes: