{"id":2579,"date":"2023-02-15T13:13:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:13:45","slug":"onwards-and-upwards-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2023\/onwards-and-upwards-a-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Onwards and Upwards (A Little…)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent the morning of the second full day driving from El Calafate to El Chalten, which will be our base for four days. The road was remarkably flat, mainly straight and moderately boring for much of the time, but as we closed on El Chalten some very high mountains, particularly 3405m Mt Fitzroy, started to loom large over us. If Richard can deliver on his form from previous trips here these should be the focal points of some very dramatic images.<\/p>\n

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View of Mt Fitzroy from the bus (Show Details)<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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El Chalten is one of those tourist bases which is expanding almost as you watch it, and very busy. Richard and Alejandro, the local guide, had plans for lunch at a venue they usually use, but Plan A failed because there was no space. Plans B to about E also failed in rapid sequence. We did eventually get a nice lunch, but perched on very precarious bar stools and at about 3pm.<\/p>\n

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Mt Fitzroy (Show Details)<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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After lunch we went to case the joint for tomorrow\u2019s dawn shoot, as it\u2019s a somewhat precarious and very, very windy location overlooking the river as well as Mt Fitzroy. I\u2019m a big bloke but I was struggling to stay upright. How we\u2019ll get on in dawn light if the wind is as bad, or worse, tomorrow morning, remains to be seen. We are already down one hat as a group.<\/p>\n

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Mt Fitzroy and the Las Vueltas river (Show Details)<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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We had a short break for tea. I decided to \u201cjust get a sandwich\u201d and ended up with a toastie about the size of my head with about 400g of meat in it. I managed half, with another bite after sunset.<\/p>\n

As Richard promised, the sunset shoot was at a quieter location, but the primary subject, long exposures of reflections on water, really didn\u2019t appeal. However turning around I was treated to some great patterns of light as the sun set on the mountains.<\/p>\n

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Sunset on the mountains (Show Details)<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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First dawn start tomorrow. Wish us luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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