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Back door Puerto Varas hotel
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Front door
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Puerto Varas freshwater beach
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Nice(?) volcanoes
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Yummy dinner at Merlin's
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See the church...
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Our hotel on the hill
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One of many indigenous flower plots
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Primitive GPS?
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Ancient church on the
road to the waterfalls
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Old German water mill
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Water wheel with fuchsias
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Converts gravity to flour
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Can you say "multi-lingual"?
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Third largest lake in South America
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Cute bird at the falls
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Next volcano beyond the falls
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I was "here"
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Sequoia-like trees in XX
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Si, the tall trees
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Big tree and big brother
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Bob at the lower falls in xx
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Upper falls at xx
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Enthusiasm everywhere
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My third Benz
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Beginning of glacier hike
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Louis
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Bloom of giant rhubarb
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Fuchsias everywhere
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Karen and the giant rhubarb
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Bob and the giant rhubarb
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Leon (pro fotog) and...
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Glacier and melt
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Dave and rhubarb
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Glacier and fields of rhubarb
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Fernando, assistant guide and "sweep"
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Four hikers (dead center)
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"Trail" gets tough
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Looking back
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Three hikers getting close
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Greg, head guide.
Local boy makes good
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Fernando (dead center) touches ice
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Glacier melt
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Luggage delivery to Terminator camp
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David's three-sided
bamboo cabana
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Bob next door,
fifty yards away
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Cable crossing Futaleufu
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Dave ratchets;
Karen avoids bloody nose
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Homestead
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Wooden gate - no hardware
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Morning after cold wet horse camp
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Fresh snow
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Warm kitchen, low clearance
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Horses ready to descend
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Dining area
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Looking back at the cold valley
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Homestead approaching cave camp
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Pollo y pavo y caballo
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Approaching cave camp
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Single person pull raft
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Futaleufu out my back non-wall
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Tyrolean crossing Futaleufu...
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...above the 5+ rapid
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Victims awaiting uncertain future
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Luggage before people...
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No fear here
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Karen, the guinea pig
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Away she goes
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.
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.
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Fotog, Leon second to last
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Rafters missing their boat
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It's stuck half way through
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Mushrooms
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Futaleufu valley on the
way to tree camp
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David points to snowy
horse camp valley
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Leon guarding
fuchsia infested bridge
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Bob's tree house
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Dave and Karen next level up
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Cameron snacks at
tree house camp
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(Huge vat of guacamole
not shown)
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.
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So, when's dinner?
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Alpine lake at tree house camp
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Lake view from my tree house
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Wood fired hot tub in every camp
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Reflection in the lake...
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Rafters, kayakers in Futaleufu
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Zip line returns to cave camp
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Granite hot tub at cave camp
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Next activity: repel the 100 meter cliff
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Rhinoceros beetle
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David descends
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.
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Change ropes half way down
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Land on platform...
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Change ropes...
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Fernando remains amused
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Onward!
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Rope dust
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Cross back to cave camp
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Dave holds up main cave
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.
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Rescue "cat" for our rafting trip
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My final cabana
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Bob, Dave, Karen
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No electric kitchen
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plenty of butane though
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Ray's behind, Greg, Susie,
Cameron, Dede
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Anti-summer-camp: the food is
really good and there's too much!
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Morning, final day
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Sharp peak
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Hike to our van
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Dave bids farewell to rhubarb
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"Highway" back to civilization
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Lost luggage, Santiago airport