Can't believe it's April and we are finally on ISGT. Had a great end to mountaineering - 3 easy days of mellow hiking with an awesome group. We followed the Nadis River until we reached the Carreterra Austral and met up with the I-team and the other groups for a delicious asado at a beautiful campo. I ate red meat for the first time in a year and didn't even get a stomach ache! We got picked up the next morning with the TrenTrenVilus and went back to our first campsite in Cochrane (the place where we first learned how to set up tents and tarps...how far we've come!!) The next next we finished up rendezvous tasks and got ready to go for ISGT. The dream team: Liz, Adam, Scott, Kate, and Marcello. 5 of my closest friends on the trip! Don't know how that worked out but I'm lovin' it. On, also got a bunch of letters during rendezvous. Got a few from Mama, Sarah, Hannah B., Deb, and Dylan. Nice to hear what's going on back home.
For ISGT, my group got dropped off near Lago Cochrane at a campo called Buena Vista. We originally made an intense travel plan for the 8-day expedition but after being given a disgusting amount of food, we are feeling lazy and have decided to do a more relaxed route. These first few days we haven't moved at all due to some gastrointestinal issues that are plaguing the group. I think the biggest suspect is all the rich food from the past couple of days and some mystery berries we put in the yummy cobbler last night. Tonight everyone seems to be feeling better. We plan to be on the move tomorrow. We are camped alongside this beautiful lake with Argentina a stone's throw away. We are getting blasted with wind, but its a warm wind and I could care less. The landscape is a lot more arid than the forests we have been traveling in for the past months.
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