Cerro Castillo

While in Coyhaique we decided to try and climb Cerro Castillo. It was a three day trip and we had pretty good weather for it. When we got up to the couloir we needed to take to get to the top we were breaking and the bottom of it and while sitting there a bowling bowl size rock came flying out of the couloir. We watched it some more and saw more rock fall so we decided to try a different couloir. We ended up topping out and not able to get to the summit from where we were. It was a fun climb and we had some great views.

The hike in
Cerro Castillo

Hiking in

Matt

Me

Where the coulor topped out

Matt and I with the prayer flag

Camp was down in hte trees at the bottom of the valley

Matt

Matt back in camp

Puerto Montt and Coyhaique

Sorry its taken so long to update this but Ive been off having to much fun. Back in January we left Santiago and took a bus south to Puerto Montt. From there we boarded a ferry and sailed down to Coyhaique. While in Coyhaique we went out to the NOLS branch and I caught up with some of my instructers.

Puerto Montt

The Ferry

NOLS Patagonia Branch