After waiting long enough in vain for the snow to come to Cerro Catedral we have up and left Bariloche and moved on to Chile. But what a time we've had! We arrived to Barilche coming from 22 degrees in BA to freezing weather!! About 5 degrees during the day and minus temperatures at night. That took a bit of getting used to let me tell you. We settled in nicely in time for Mitch's birthday where we spent the day kayaking (see pic) which was a lot of fun...although at the beginning we were terrified of falling into that icy water! Mitch was captain which basically meant that I had to do all the rowing while he shouted all the orders. He enjoyed that a lot! Then we spent the evening boozing it up with some new friends in a dingy Irish bar...where else?? Suffice to say we didn't go back there again!
While waiting for the snow to come we occupied ourselves with some hiking, a trip to some lakes, a disastrous biking trip (which started out great & ended up soaked to skin cycling uphill through the icy rain unable to see where we were going) and a day out at a black glacier (black because of the volcano)...which was fun...freezing but fun! We then decided to move hostels where we were pretty sure we had jobs to find out that 2 guys picked them up the week before. We were livid!! So we spent the next week boozing it up waiting for the snow. We reluctantly said goodbye to Bariloche with no hope of snow for at least another 2-3 weeks and try our luck in Chile. Fingers crossed! Here's vid of Mitch trying his hand at cycling...was very amusing at the time to watch him!
