Day 2 - Casa de Piedra

Another 5 hours of hiking and we get our first glimpse of the Aconcagua summit. The mountain looks enormous! After another perfectly lovely day of hiking our first view of the peak knocked us back into the reality that we have quite a task ahead of us. I felt both terrified and excited at finally seeing the mountain. WOW!

We're camping at Casa de Piedra tonight at 10,000 feet. This will be our final night in the valley before we start our push up to base camp. We got a bit of rain today and could see the storm higher up on the mountain. Looks like we're in for a bit of weather for the next coulple of days.

As always, I'm thriving on hiking and camping in a stunning and remote part of the world. Being on the Polish Glacier route, we're off the beaten path for this mountain and the lack of humans is refreshing.

My thoughts do wander home daily to family and friends and my dog Gryphon, but I can't help but feel that travel through these special parts of the world is a special gift. One that I certainly don't take for granted.

Back at you tomorrow.

Terri