January 2, 2006 - Camp Poincenot
Ziad woke up to try and catch a photo of the sunrise on Torre. Think he woke up at 5am...I don't know how he gets up so early, but he did get a great shot of the Torre...there was a lot of cloud cover, but otherwise, the shot looks great.

Each of the towers are named after its respective founding explorers: Fitz Roy, Egger, Stanhardt.....It's amazing how all these explorers navigated their way with simple equipment during the early days. Here we need our gortex and thermal polypropelene clothing, thermarests, and toilet paper to survive the evenings. Not sure how much stuff these guys had with them.

We set off for our hike to Poincenot (3-4 hrs), which is at the base of Mt. Fitz Roy. Pretty terrain and good weather. Once we turned around to the other side of the mountain range (where you get a view of Fitz Roy), the wind really picked up.



We set up camp and left for the 1hr. steep climb to Mt.Fitz Roy. I don't think either of us were into another steep climb at that moment, but we went. Had to burn off all that meat we'd been consuming in town. It was overcast and there was a wicked glare off of Fitz Roy's glacier, but we got a good view of the tower. Fitz Roy is the largest tower (torre) in the park and since the weather is ever-changing, you're lucky if you get a good view of the peak. We did. We relaxed up there for an hour or so. Met a very funny Indian-American who trekked in from El Chalten for the day.


Got back to camp around 7pm or so and had a gourmet meal of plain pasta and tomatoe sauce. We did have creamed corn soup for appetizers...may not sound like much, but it was actually really tasty. like i said, everything tastes good when you're camping:-)