The weather modeling for rain seems to be quite accurate and stable here in Patagonian Chile (in contrast to being almost useless in the Peruvian highlands), so we woke to clear blue skies just as expected. Well, we had to get packed out of the surrounding forest before we could confirm that, and nothing had Read more…

It rained during most of the five nights and four days that we spent in Puyuhuapi, though only heavily on two of those days, which matched the forecast. There was still rain predicted for today, but light and decreasing, and leaving today gave us the best window to make it to Coyhaique in four days Read more…

We set out shockingly late from our cabin (9:30am), because we knew we wouldn’t be able to check in to our new place very early, and predicted that we would have neither heat nor horseflies to beat. On our previous ride Rett hadn’t even needed to wear her net at any point, so our cautious Read more…

Our ~US$55 room included breakfast, though when our hostess offered yesterday that it would/could be served at 7:30am, we hadn’t yet planned out today well enough to know if that would result in too late of a start, so we had been non-committal. By this morning, our plan was to get up, pack, and load Read more…

Once again we were up and out early, tiptoeing past Lee’s tent before 7:30am. Even though we only had 21 miles to ride, and were heading for an AirBNB (thus re-creating the problem of arriving at our tiny-town destination hours before check-in), we had a big pass to climb and felt that even with the Read more…

Even though we had a proposed solution for Rett’s instinctive reaction to horsefly attacks, we hadn’t actually tested it, so we again tried to use the time of day to minimize their combative interactions. But we were slightly-more relaxed than yesterday, meaning we got up at 5am, and were rolling out a little after 7am. Read more…