Photo Journal & Trip Reports (Chile)

Please enjoy these photo journals and trip reports from some of my outdoor photography adventures, starting with the most recent. You can subscribe to follow my latest blog posts (and any other blogs as well) by using a feed reader such as Inoreader or Feedly.

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Dientes de Navarino
Dientes de Navarino
January 2012  |  Tierra del Fuego, Chile

Last week Claudia and I and took a zodiac boat ride from Ushuaia to Isla Navarino, an island that is actually in Chile even though it’s right across the Beagle Channel from Ushuaia and Argentina. So, coming and going, four more stamps in our passports, which are nearly full of Chile and Argentina stamps after three months of border crossings between the two countries...

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The W Trek - Torres del Paine
The W Trek - Torres del Paine
December 2011  |  Patagonia, Chile

Last week we spent 10 days hiking the popular “W” Circuit in Parque Nacional Torres del Paine. These spectacular mountains rise abruptly 3000 vertical meters (almost 10,000 feet) above a series of huge turquoise lakes...

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Jungle Granite at Cochamó
Jungle Granite at Cochamó
November 2011  |  Chile

After waiting in the rain in Puerto Varas for a week, we finally got a better weather forecast and headed out for a six day backpacking trip to the impressive Cochamó valley in Chile. We might have jumped the gun by a day or two, since it rained the entire way up; the ten mile hike was totally wet and muddy, with countless bogs and knee deep creeks to cross...

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Snowboarding Volcanoes in Chile
Snowboarding Volcanoes in Chile
November 2011  |  Chile

In early November 2011 we were traveling in central Chile around Chillán and Pucón; this region of the Andes is full of stratovolcanoes (kind of like the Pacific Northwest). There had been a very snowy winter before our visit (November is spring down south), and the volcanoes were still smothered in snow...

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Valle de Aguas Calientes
Valle de Aguas Calientes
November 2011  |  Chile

After our long bus ride south from northern Chile and a quick pitstop in Santiago, we’ve spent the last several days in and around Las Trancas, a sleepy mountain town set in a gorgeous forested valley below two volcanoes...

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Iquique & Antofagasta
Iquique & Antofagasta
October 2011  |  Chile

We’ve spent the last few days relaxing in Iquique, a city in northern Chile. Along with its renowned beaches, Iquique is famous for its perfect paragliding winds, especially this time of year (spring) when the winds blow consistently off the ocean and up the enormous hills that loom above the city...

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Surprise Rocks
Surprise Rocks
October 2011  |  Chile

To be honest, I expected the drive back from the altiplano highlands of Salar de Surire towards the coastal city of Iquique to be a barren, boring affair. So we were surprised when about 50-100 km west of Colchane we started seeing a plethora of incredible rock formations along the sides of the highway!

Some of more fantastic looking of these eroded geological sites proved to be inaccessible by roads and would have required a backpacking trek, along with leaving our truck unattended on the side of the highway – both of which we weren’t willing to do at the time...

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Salar de Surire & Las Vicuñas National Reserve
Salar de Surire & Las Vicuñas National Reserve
October 2011  |  Chile

Stocked up with spare tanks of gas and plenty of water, we headed south from Lauca National Park through Las Vicuñas National Reserve, which gets its name from the many herds of wild vicuñas that roam the desolate landscape...

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Lauca National Park
Lauca National Park
October 2011  |  Chile

Last week after our time in and around San Pedro de Atacama we spent several days in Lauca National Park. This area includes without doubt the most stunning landscapes we’ve seen in northern Chile, with the twin Payachata volcanoes rising above two broad lakes, all surrounded by well watered altiplano full of grazing vicuñas, llamas, and alpacas...

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San Pedro de Atacama
San Pedro de Atacama
October 2011  |  Chile

After renting a 4×4 pickup truck in Antofagasta, we’ve spent the last week camping and touring in the Atacama desert of northern Chile, based around the oasis town of San Pedro de Atacama.

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A Month in Patagonia
A Month in Patagonia
November/December 2007  |  Argentina/Chile

From mid-November to mid-December 2007, I spent a month backpacking in Patagonia. During the first few weeks, I was hiking amongst the jagged peaks of the Fitz Roy Range in Parque Nacional los Glaciares near Chaltén, Argentina...

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