by Sarah Gallo | Jan 11, 2014 | Patagonia
I woke up early the next morning for glacial hiking, or so I thought. Through my sleepiness, my dad told me that plans changed because the boat we had to take back to shore post-ice hiking broke down and that we would not have been able to go on the ice anymore. I was...
by Sarah Gallo | Jan 11, 2014 | Patagonia
We woke up the next morning, knowing that we would have to carry our large backpacks with us on this final hike of our Patagonia trek to Glaciar Grey. Except we didn’t know it would be a hike, per se, we thought it’d be a pretty flat walk. Boy were we very, very...
by Sarah Gallo | Jan 10, 2014 | Patagonia
The next day we woke up bright and early to hike to the French Valley. Our bodies ached, but we were better prepared mentally to tackle Patagonia. We ate a big, hearty breakfast and stepped outside to another beautifully sunny day. I was thrilled because the path...
by Sarah Gallo | Jan 10, 2014 | Patagonia
We took a bus from El Calafate to Puerto Natales, where we would begin our real Patagonia adventure, aka Parque Nacional Torres del Paine. I really wanted to challenge myself and test my physical ability and so we took off to do the W-Trek to tour Torres del Paine...
by Sarah Gallo | Jan 10, 2014 | Patagonia
After an unbelievable final dinner with dad in Buenos Aires, we flew to El Calafate to begin our father-daughter Patagonia journey. We decided to rent a car, which would turn out to be very difficult to drive as the wind was so strong. While driving through the town I...