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Before Cochamo

I want to say one last goodbye to everyone, my family and friends, new and old, before heading into Valle Cochamo tomorrow. Especially, to Alisa Kozu Gragert, the love of my life. To my family and friends, thanks for the love and support for this journey thus far, for letting me grow and helping me learn; this chance exposure to culture and language and more via patience and laughter has been remarkeable. And Alisa, you´re a beautiful thinker and I couldn´t be happier thanks to you.

Love to all,
That we meet again someday soon,
-n8

Good Bye Argentina

Will update blog in April or so. Hang tight! Have photos from my last trip to Frey and my last Argentinean asado with good friends, but have been unable to post them!

I am leaving today with my good Australian friends, Marcus and Cerin, along with sister and friend and the wonderful and rambunctious Alisa!!! On to Chile and lack of electricity!

Take care everyone! Can´t wait to catch up afterwords!!!

Best,

-n8

Frey, Nov. 14th, 2009!!!

Friday, November 13th and Saturday, Nov. 14th, 2009.

SHORT STORY: Made a successful, brief climbing trip to Frey where I was almost eaten by a dinosaur, or pterodactyl of some sort, mid-climb!!!

LONG STORY: I planned to meet my Swiss friend Lucas in Frey. He had planned to reach Frey’s refugio via the next refugio over, namely Refugio Jakob. If you are not familiar with the area and the trailhead, it can be difficult to find. That’s why I found him waiting for me at the trailhead to Frey when I arrived at Cerro Catedral at 12:30 or so! His trekking day had started at around 8am and he still had a good 2 ½ hours left!

My challenge was to be to climb a route on Torre Principal. We were both so tired upon arriving at Frey that we soon decided to aim lower and with more accuracy at a climb on the tower called El Abuelo! My good friend Hernan from Refugio Frey gave me the recommendation of doing the route “Del Techo” mixed with “Hay Que Entrar Para Salir” instead of doing “Ñaca Ñaca Crunch Crunch” as I had planned. This took a 5+ and made it a 6a. About 110 meters of climbing it seemed to be. Already now there is much less snow to arrive at the nearby walls! You can almost do it without getting your socks wet in normal shoes! Yahoo!

So. The next morning, Saturday, I get up at 7:45 and start eating my cereal. Hernan tells me where I can find an old harness to lend to Lucas, as I had forgotten to bring him an extra! Oops! After we finished eating at around 9:30am, we headed off to the wall! Thanks to the Guia de escaladas, by Rolando Garibotti, we found our route just fine and started off! Two easy pitches of 4 led to more fun and interesting 5+ and/or 6a pitch that Lucas and I broke into two, thanks to a lack of gear.

The story of the day was here at the midpoint of the pitch, where I made an early anchor because the fall potential had become too great as it wasn’t easy climbing and I had already used most of the gear below! Safer to make an anchor than run it out and risk having no gear to make an anchor higher up!

After making the anchor and managing the rope, I began to belay Lucas. A sudden wooOOSH nearby, as if that made by a distant airplane displacing air, forced me to look away from Lucas and to my side, at a condor! The Patagonian king of the skies, measuring in wingspan much greater than myself at 6’1”, seemed to be sizing me up for lunch! It passed one meter above me, examining huddled, makeshift anchor-forced location on the rock, its feathers practically caressing the rock a mere arm’s length above me. I quivered in my squatted position, drawing my arms in, clutching the Grigri, and looking for a spare large BD Camelot “just in case”, of which, of course, there were none! I shouted down to Lucas in Castellano (See: español), <> <> he says, plucking a Camelot out of the crack some 20 meters below me.

Some 15 Condor passes later, and my breathing relaxes enough to take out a camera and take a few photos. At one point our Condor, Nahuel as I call him now, passed by me face to face so closely that I could have brushed his wingtips without even fully extending my timid arms! Incredible! I thought I was making lunch! Two pitches later, after switching turns lead-climbing, we arrived at the walk-off point. After attempting the final pitch, finding it too cold to our liking, we walked over and did El Perfil de la Mujer, the short tower behind El Abuelo with a fun and quick 20-meter 4 climb!

Our trip finished well! We planned an asado in Frey for the upcoming weekend with Hernan and Alan, the two refugio friends I’ve made there who are finishing their months of working there soon! I met up with my friend Luciano “Nano” and Matias for the hike down! What a great, brief trip to Frey! I hope the weather can hold up for some more trips before I head over to Chile and Cochamó on the 4thish of December! Two weeks and a bit more! Wow!

Cheers, big ears, -your landescaper, n8

Weather

The last three weeks, Bariloche and I have been under the weather! Call it spring cleaning, call it allergies for the first time, but I have cabin fever!

It has come to my attention that I have posted pictures about Valle Encantado but have said nothing about its current rules and regulations as a result of the owners. As it currently stands, there are very strict rules as follows: No fires allowed; no camping allowed; no one is allowed on the property who has not signed their name on what I have been told is the equivalent of a liability waiver, and this includes Valle Encantado´s both sides of the river; word on the rock is that it will be closed to all from December, 2009 until March, 2009. In other words, for the climbing season. This is a result of the rules above being broken, as well as trash being left in previous years and a growing concern of the owners due to the rising popularity and consciousness of this unique climbing area.

In my opinion, all of this could be worked out if the climbing community organized itself and came with one united voice to the owners of Valle Encantado. However, as it stands there are individuals and small groups, whether under a banner such as Club Andino Bariloche - I do not mean to pick on any one person or group - or just as climbing friends, who have not taken the initiative to gather and unite. Also, money is more of an issue here as it is in, say, the States where the Access Fund is a viable option. So, sadly we wait out this issue and the weather! For now...

Oct. 17, 2009 to Frey

This past weekend I hiked up to Frey again with hopes of climbing the Normal route on Torre Principal! Here's a slideshow jacked full of photos from the one day, two-night trip!:
Here's a video of me just beneath Torre Principal, in Frey, Bariloche, Argentina:

Torre Principal, Frey from nathan conroy on Vimeo.




More Soon!, -n8

Visitors!

This week Alisa and I have been fortunate enough to receive Ed and Adriana and as such have made some outings to the must-see spots! I have taken very few photos; Ed has taken more. Alas, I have my camera. Besides going to Cerro Otto, Lago Gutierrez, Frey, and various houses for some excellent dinners, we've generally been improving our perspective of the area and having good times! Here's a brief slideshow with captions! Enjoy and I hope all's well! - n8

Problem Corrections

I have recently been involved in numerous conversations with Argentineans about the issue of corrupt politicians and a stumbling economy, bound to crash. After reading an article by New York Times´ op-ed writer, Paul Krugman, titled ¨The Uneducated American¨, I realized it was time to put my two cents in the bucket about the part of America that I was reading about: Argentina, South America.

Sitting in the mountain-covered Lakes District of Argentina, Bariloche is deemed the sports center of Patagonia. Its great lakeside location by the Andes and would-be tranquility has led to crecendo after booming crecendo in popularity and population. Many people come to live here from Buenos Aires, Chile, Venezuela, etc., and the chaos of big cities is beginning to show itself in Bariloche. There is more traffic and thus there are more exhaust fumes. There are more robberies and rapes. The control and comfort once known to a nature-loving town has become the nightmare and fear of strangers occupying the same space. The inhabitants themselves take it upon themselves to spread the word and post notices with what information they can get of violators of the law, in hopes of catching them. But the problems are continuing to increase.

I asked a grey-haired, balding man who moved to Bariloche in the 70´s how we can go about fixing this. Well, the problem is that the politicians are corrupt. Now, voting is not voluntary in Argentina. If it were, my new friend claimed, perhaps we could replace some of the dirty crooks in the government. However, they had enough foresight to write a law into the Constitution requiring voting to be voluntary. As long as this is so, they can buy their votes and remain in office, stowing money for their own causes and forgetting about education. This is short-term, unsustainable thinking since each generation will be passing along yet a dimmer future to their mourners. So how do we fix this?

It seems that we have two options: uprising and/or education. One of these is more humane and necessary in the longrun. Not enough money goes to education, which of course is an economy builder and relatedly a facility for preventing problems such as robberies. Although some private schools may hold strong, even in the event of another economic crash in this America, public schools are already suffering. From the information I have gleaned from friends working in the education system here, from private classes to public schools, the kids often times run all over the teachers, who of course are working under the table and without a higher education themselves. Now, an illequipped teacher may already have their work cut out for them, but it certainly does not help when there are gratuitous - or in the least, unneccessary - holidays for teachers in the name of the workers who fix doorknobs. No joke. Private schools here often ignore these holidays, whether or not all of their publicly dismissed students attend the private classes. The public school teachers that I know gripe about losing money for no good reason. But what else can they do? Furthermore, many kids turn to full-time work and/or raising families before they even finish high school. These same people have complaints about the government and the infrastructure of their country. They share their mate with you and are normally very talented and creative when it comes to fixing things with little means, be it a car that other Americans would have scrapped 50 years ago, or a microwave that lost a wire somewhere. What they don´t share is a common fate like us, and what they don´t know how to fix is their government and education system.

In these times, when there are more questions and complaints than answers and results, I look to history and others for examples but find few that might work. It does not help my case that other American countries - even perhaps the strongest in education and cleaning up politics in years past or present - are struggling with the same issues.

I read Three Cups of Tea and had the inspiration and idea to build schools here one day, but alas, there are already many. The issue is funding and education of teachers as well as students. The issue even greater still is a government honestly committed to the future of its people rather than satisfying their immediate desires. Will the time come when the immediate desire of the people are naught but a future of promise? And will the time come when this craving will not yield to any who might stand in the way?

I hope so!
-your landescaper, n8

Frey, October 3-7, 2009

Brief picture account of two back-to-back trips to Frey this past weekend/beginning-of-week. First, to celebrate Alisa's birthday; second, to celebrate nature! Hope you enjoy!

Pictures from Frey

The following are pictures taken from the climbing on Aguja Frey on Sunday, September 27th, 2009. Courtesy of Emma May. I hope you enjoy! - your landescaper, n8

Season Opening for Frey

It is now the time of year to camp and climb in Frey. This weekend has been a meticulously chronicled proof of that!My trusty, lightweight, 3-season, 2-person Sierra Designs tent stands strong against the cold winds of September's goodbyes to the valley and Frey.
DAY 1:
Since I was the only person tenting in this pretty cold weather, I had my pick of all of the campsites, or should I say, rounded fortresses of stacked rocks that partially protect your tent from the wind. More importantly, my view was in my hands! I chose the place closest to the valley! With a cushion underneath my sleeping bag, I slept very warmly! The main obstacle between my dreams and myself was getting accustomed to sleeping in such a restrictive cocoon!
My two new French friends, Mateo and Sage, arriving ahead of me up the snow-covered trail to Refugio Frey.

As any good adventure goes, it begins with something being forgotten. This trip it turned out to be Marcus' car lights. He got a text on his cellphone about 1 hour into the hike from a friend, telling him that he left them on. This is lucky because we were nearly out of cellular reception; unlucky because he had to run back and forth to turn them off, and I was the best option for carrying his bag along with my own! I do need the practice! He caught up with us before the last part: the steep and snowy section! Thank goodness! The rest of the trek is history!
Marcus belaying Mateo up the last pitch of Aguja Frey's classic and original, Sifuentes-Weber, 90m, 5+. This is one of my favorite pictures not so much for the perspective of the refugio and bushes below, but for the evident happiness in both of my friends, withstanding the cold!

This climb is a classic. Last April I tried to climb it, but I didn't study the guidebook well enough before hitting the rock and ended up finishing after the first two pitches on a long last pitch that was an interesting 6a+. This time, not only did we do the correct final two pitches of Sifuentes-Weber, which are really classic, but thanks to Marcus and Mateo and Sage, I got to lead the first three pitches and practice a technique new to me, namely belaying two people at once! It was a great experience and a great feeling to be back on adventurous yet secure terrain being, as Mateo puts it, "Brave and safe"!
The view of the valley as seen from atop of Aguja Frey. I love Frey!
Marcus poses while belaying atop of Aguja Frey, with a gorgeous sun setting behinds Frey's lineup of proud towers. The leftmost and tallest at around 2400m is Torre Principal, my goal for Monday...! For now, we go back to the refugio and chat in a warm room with our friends Emma, Rob, and Murph from the hostel, Pudu that is, Miles, my ex-nextdoor-neighbor, and Allen, my new friend and refugio-worker. Dinner never tasted so good! Next time I think I'll bring more food, drinks, chocolate, and wine! :)

DAY 2:
The adventure into the unknown!

For some reason my camera was low on battery at the beginning of this two-day climbing rampage so I didn't take that many pictures. That includes missed shots of most of today's activities, so words and memories will have to suffice - and how! We left the refugio at about 11am with one large backpack filled with our ropes, some snacks, the water bottle attached, and wearing jackets and gloves that Marcus let us borrow, and the gear on my harness since I'll be the lead-climber, we start marching slightly uphill towards the largest track of snow nearest Torre Principal.A picture of Frey, with our approach hike and climb lightly drawn over it. Click on the picture for an enlarged view and better look at where we went!

On the steeper portions of the ascent we encountered only a thin layer of snow above the ice. Luckily, Mateo had burly stiff boots and more frequently than not went first to dig the largest footprints possible to follow. We were safe, but mind you next time I plan on bringing crampons with Marcus and maybe a set of ice-axes for security. As it turns out, the descent through this area was way easier and non-technical in the evening thanks to the warming power of the sun! Long story short: we didn't weave very much, we didn't fall, and we arrived at the little snow-covered dip between Torre Principal (the huge one in the picture) and La Lechuza. I was stunned at the view. Without a doubt, it is the most awe-inspiring thing I have seen this entire trip and I want to return to see it again A.S.A.P., hopefully even better from the summit of Principal (hint, hint). You can see layers of snow-covered mountains Mount Tronador, Lanin, Osorno, Lago Gutierrez, Nahuel-Huapi, Morenito!! It's incredible! Mountains upon mountains, valleys and peaks and lakes! And I was so awe-stricken and caught up also with time and our goal of climbing and even just arriving at our route on Principal that I didn't even take a single picture of it!

After some other small adventures, and typically tough route-finding in Frey made even more difficult by the deepness of the snow, we started climbing. This was funny because we had to make an anchor for ourselves at the base of whatever climb it was we were doing just to stay on the wall and not fall back into the steep bank of the snow that we traversed at the base of Principal. Well, also to hang our backpack up, put on our shoes, have a snack and water, get out and organize the gear and ropes, etc.! Then I started climbing. Occasionally snow and ice filled up the crack, leading me to sport-climbing techniques, and sometimes eliminating gear placements causing run-outs. As it turned out, the first two pitches which are normally French-grade 4 and about 30-meters each, I led together! Marcus yelled up as we had discussed, "You have 5 meters left" (in Castellano, or spanish), and since I could still see no bolted anchors but rather only ledges of snow and ice and more of it, I backtracked and made an anchor for him to follow!Mateo giving the peace sign at the anchor of pitch 2 of Torre Principal's ice- and snow-ridden Clemenzo route. I'd still give it three stars!

By the time Mateo arrived, it was almost 4:30, getting colder on the shaded East Face of Torre Principal, and his toes were numb. I gave leading one more shot and could see no way to pass through. I new that we had arrived at the snowy ledge that was supposed to be a traversing pitch, but without an ice axe to clean it, there would be no gear placements let alone climbing it! N8 atop pitch two of Clemenzo on Torre Principal, Frey, Argentina.So, again I backtracked, looped a sling around some sturdy triangular rocks for a second anchor, better suited for bailing since it only left a cheap sling behind, as opposed to three expensive and useful cams, and down we went!Our progress up the Clemenzo route, roughly sketched on a picture I took of Torre Principal as we were trekking away from it after bailing.

Another great part of this adventure was skiing down. After passing over the ridgeline between Principal and Aguja Frey, the softness of the snow literally allowed us to ski with our shoes. Even our friends sitting on rocks around the Refugio, watching us come down, thought that we had skis on! We had allowed ourselves plenty of time to descend before nightfall but as it turned out, descending was fun and easy!!

Mateo and I, happy and tired, turn to look back once more at the footprints from our Torre Principal adventure, with Aguja Frey and our friends awaiting us in the background.

What a great way to make friends closer!

More to come soon! -your landescaper, n8

Climbing Season

As I write this, it is Thursday, September 24th, and we are already into climbing season. I have climbed the last 5 out of 5 days! Alisa isn't far behind, joining me on 4 of the occasions, and that's with her busy work schedule to boot! The weather now is cool but sunny, and in many of the climbing locations the wind adds an extra crisp chill which requires a pullover but gives your hands a nice reprieve from sweat, unlike in the summertime! So, we've been taking advantage of the weather! We've also been making new friends and hanging out with old ones, which I especially enjoy!Here I am, lowering off of a "rest day" or easy climbing day at Piedras Blancas, or Cerro Otto, where Alisa and I managed a two-pitch and then a final single pitch for the morning climbing day!Above, here's Alisa smiling on the first day of this climbing rampage, on top of Casa de Dani, as in Daniel Seeliger's home/outdoor climbing wall! We went with Juanjo and Nicocinero!Here I am enjoying one of the awesome 6's (or 5.10 through 5.11's) that we did on our second day of climbing, which took place in the old section of Valle Encantado, a truly amazing place on this earth, and surely one of my favorites in the Bariloche area. It was great to be able to share it with the new friends of Marcus and Sarin - I hope I'm spelling your name right!The last two days I've gone consecutively to Cerro Ventana, in particular the sector called La Visera, where my project stands. Come to find out, I have two new friends, a rambunctious pair named Claudio and Machi, who are both trying the 7c right next to mine. So, combined with my friend Lucas and myself, there are now a bunch of us to share our motivation on these hard, legendary routes on the overhanging upper sector in Cerro Ventana! Here's two pictures of Lucas trying "Forza Mandinga"! Stay tuned for soon-to-come sends and perhaps even a fun video!!!...I hope!

Also, to give you a brief preview of the future, which is of course subject to change, I plan to have an asado on Friday, and climb some trad. multi-pitch in Frey Saturday through Monday! Then I will look to finish up my 7c and head back to Frey as soon as possible to keep logging kilometers of climbing before my 4-month trip to Cochamó! Wahooo! Salu2 a todos del sur!

Quick trip to Valle Encantado

Marcus, my new Vegemite friend, picked me up just past 10am on Saturday, Sept. 12 to go to Valle Encantado with 3 of his friends! We drove quickly, passed by lovely Valle Llanquin, and hiked up to log some routes! A 5 and two 6's on one small wall, followed by a nice 20-meter 4+, and a nice 6c or 6c+ finished us off for the day!The day was incredible. Great view, as you can see far above and directly above, zoomed in with a climber on the other side of Valle Encantado in a white shirt!Here's Marcus being lowered off of the 4+, giant smile!

Here I am, trying the moves out on the 6c(+), a really fun route that really should have a smiley face in the guidebook but doesn't!Never before seen picture of me putting on my shoes!Here I am, smiling for the nice day outside with cool people! Can't wait to go back!

Project Number 1: Demoliendo Teles


This route, my 7c, I need to finish before October because all of October I need to go to Frey as much as possible to practice for Cochamo! Luckily, my friend Lucas has a 7c project right beside mine! So we belay each other and yell encouragement at each other! Here we are, smiling with the ropes already up and one lap on each of our projects under our belt!On dad's birthday the sun popped out and although it was a Friday and I had just worked the nightshift, I ate breakfast and sleeplessly went with my friends to break down my project! Above, Lara sticks the early dyno move, her feet peeling off the rock because she's shorter than the guys! Below, Juancho making the awkward "Tango" or flagging, reach move before clipping the third bolt!We warmed up on a beastly 7b...not the best idea! Then we hit the projects! I did my project with only 3 small rests this time! Should be three more days of solid work on it and I expect it to bend to my will! Here I am, seeing if I can reach a bolt to clip it, early on in the overhanging section of the long, grueling route! More soon!

Feliz Cumple, Papa!

Happy Birthday, Dad! This is the second birthday of yours I´ve spent away from home, and the second post. Know that you got a big hug and a happy son waiting to receive you in Cochamo! Thanks for all your love and support and for providing me with such a good role model.

Lulds

Excerptito from my Diary

Los vi, unos pajeritos en los arboles desnudos. Sun´s up; time for bed!

The Plan

Yesterday I made homemade pasta
after Alisa and I learned from our friend and soon-to-be housemate, Nico. He´s not moving in with us; we´re moving in with him. In October, practically cutting our rent cost in half!Here´s Alfonzo on the route Hecho en Casa (7a), almost at the crux set of crimpers!
The weather here in Bariloche, Argentina is changing and the patterns of the years tell me that summer´s coming. I´ve gone climbing outdoors for the last two days. Today, I sent the 7a Hecho en Casa, at the Casa de Dani wall, while my friends Alfonso, Lara, and Lucas tried the 7a+ just to the right and my friend PAjero tried the same route as myself. I didn´t think I would ¨send¨ the route, or climb it without falling, because yesterday I had gone climbing outdoors for the first serious time this season at Cerro Ventana´s La Visera wall. Because my project, Demoliendo Teles was one of the only 3 dry routes at Ventana, I hopped on it and did all of the moves! I´m psyched, but now I have to connect them together!Lara climbing the same route.

In other news, I just read Three Cups of Tea and highly recommend it to any of the following: a good heart, an urge to climb, an inclination to change the world for the better! Besides making our own bread, pasta, casseroles, pizzas, crepes, and what have you, we´re trying to take steps in our lives to learn to live more sustainably. Reading certain books and studying cooking and gardening make me feel alot better, especially when living in a town or city that doesn´t afford me the ability yet to put into practice any of this knowledge or will to act so!

More to come!, your landescaper, n8

Wedding and New Life!

Big news: My big sister Nicole Michelle Conroy just got married! Many of you readers probably know this already, whether you´re from South or North America, but I thought I´d share this news update in my life! I went back to the U.S. for the wedding(s) which went spectacularly, I might add! I cannot upload photos from this computer, so you´ll have to wait for the visual impact of the news, but let it be said that the wedding went well, and deservedly so for the fine pair that Nicky and Jon make! Congrats, you two! Love ya both!

Runner up news is that I am now back in Bariloche with a new job, working late nights, i.e. 130am to 930am in an awesome new hostel here in Bariloche and I am leaving Bariloche in November. I will take roughly a two-month climbing trip starting by crossing the Andes on horseback and hopefully finishing with some big-wall first ascents in Cochamo, Chile (right next door to Bariloche, Argentina)! Then back to work and life in the U.S.! That will be the stamp on this Big Trip! Until then, more posts about current climbing, if I can sneak any in with this confused winter weather here! Also, check back in the next few weeks in case I can add photos of the wedding and such!

Lots of love,
-your landescaper, n8, or Felipe, puede ser!

North Conway, NH

July 23-26, 2009
I went to North Conway, New Hampshire for a few days with my dad and brother to go climbing! Unfortunately for us, it was raining a lot. July 23 we could not climb. July 24, my brother Sean and I climbed a damp, 2-pitch climb before night truly descended and we were forced to hike away from the wall, through the forest, and back to the car with headlamps on, guiding us back! Working backwards, here is a brief history of our trip with the routes that we did most recently first:

STANDARD ROUTE's TOE CRACK VARIATION: Dad and I start up this excellent 2-pitch variation route, which has a little bit of everything: power, hand, fist, fingers, balance, traverses, face! After a year and a half of not climbing, dad sure styled his way and not only didn't fall but crushed the upper section! Here's dad powering through the second pitches vertical crack system:Dad stands at the anchors, triumphant after his quick send of Standard Route with the Toe Crack Variation, a 2-pitch 5.7 ***!Here's dad in action, above the real crack-climbing section and it's inherent crux, which dad ignored and busted through like barn doors engulfed in flames with a wailing baby inside!


FUNHOUSE and UPPER REFUSE (earlier that day):Sean and I, happy and ready to walk-off and scramble-off the top of the route and hop over the fence set up for the tourist viewpoint to make it to the upper parking lot and road! Yay, victory!Sean, hanging out and enjoying the view mere meters from the top of pitch 3!
July 25 strikes and we get in a few excellent climbs thanks to the onset of sun! Yay! No more rain! Sean and I manage to connect the Lower Left Wall's 2-pitch climb called Funhouse (5.7***) with the upper wall's 3-pitch climb, Upper Refuse (5.5***) for a three-star 5-pitch route which ended up being over 415 feet of superb climbing! I love it when the trees are puny! Here's Sean cruising up the easier of the five pitches, pitch 4, a 5.3:To make the story even better, I re-climbed two of the pitches because Sean left two cordelettes of mine on trees below, thinking they were for everyone! :) So he lowered me 60 meters and I retrieved and reclimbed! Here I am, organizing my rack before another pitch!Here's Sean chilling at pitch 4's anchors. Notice we didn't bring water! How thirsty we are!:

Here's one last photo, a panorama, before sending you off:Keep up the good vibes!

Casa de Dani

Viernes, el 17 de Julio, 2009.(Rodrigo en Hecho de Casa, un 7a increible!) Antes de irnos a los EEUU, fui con mis amigos a la pared Casa de Dani para disfrutar el sol y la primavera!Nahuel, el monstruo, en una ruta dura de regletas y a la derecha de la ruta en la foto arriba!Lucas en la misma ruta!Lucas al reunion de la misma ruta otra vez! Que grosso!Arriba de la pared, Kimba, disfrutando la vista impresionanta!

Valle Encantado 2

Escalada en Valle Encantado!!!Jueves, el 16 de Julio, 2009.Fuimos a cruzar el rio al mejor lado y parte de Valle Encantado!

Hicemos muchos sextos de cinqo estrellas!

En la nueva guia de escalada para el region cerca de Bariloche no incluyido V. Encantado, no se las nombres de la rutas!Pero, todos las rutas me encanto! Este 6c fue a vista, pero igual, me re gusto!Aqui esta un video de un parte de Valle Encantado:Podés ver la bota cruzando el rio y las paredes atras! Que buena vista!Y aqui Lucas esta listo para ayudar!