Laguna Cerro Castillo

So we stayed in a tiny town called Villa Cerro Castillo that has the mountain overlooking it -

This was another pretty big hike to get up there and see a beautiful lake, so of course we had to go for it! This was our first hint of our goal, as we started -

As we carried on, the skies continued to clear…

… and we got to see more and more of the valley below us -

As we climbed higher, we got above tree line…

… and into some really neat rocks -

I thought it was really cool that at the end of the valley, way down below, there were turquoise, as well as aqua, blue lakes -

Woohoo! We reached the top!

Laguna Cerro Castillo -

What an amazing blue! And we had the entire place nearly all to ourselves! (for the next video, be sure to open this post in your browser)

We felt like this hike, somewhat shorter and easier than Torres del Paine or Fitzroy, was just fantastic, as the views were as stupendous, and it had so few people. Our elevation gain was 3600 ft, and the total hike took us 5 1/2 hours to cover 8 miles.

We actually waited around for the skies to clear, so I took pictures of pointy mountain peaks…

… glacier edges with waterfalls…

… and neat valleys -

The blue was mesmerizing for me -

As clear of peak as we could get, with blue sky background -

As we headed down, the valley was lit up and gorgeous -

Steve was able to show the slope of the hill we were crossing -

What a great day!