Night guests at Laguna Negra

You will have guessed it by now. We arrived at the next refugio in the middle of the night and had to get down from a pass and through a little valley and around the laguna guided by one head torch! I can recommend this exercise for team work - very effective!
Thank God it was a clear night and the moon was bright. The mountains looked amazing in the sunset light, all pink and orange but by that time I was a bit too much in a hurry to stop and take any photographs. Also we were being watched by a couple of vultures... not a comforting sight!



We slept well that night!!! And I only had 4 blisters on my toes, a very swollen knee and Craig could not decide whether his ankle or his knees hurt more. And then to top things off I fell out the bed in the refugio, was all very slippery tucked into my sleeping bag and I managed to wake everybody up which stopped the snoring for a while. Sigh! Have big bruise on my bum now to remind me...


Great experiece not to be repeated please! I cannot imagine every going moutain hiking again ever!! Somebody please remind me!