Rain and wind

Today was the second worst hiking day we ever experienced. We actully had one day last year in Ålesund that sucked more, but it's a close call.

That hope of some sun to dry up the tent in the morning sure didn't happen and it has been poring down all day. Add to that the relentless patagonian wind and try to walk towards that and the closest thing that can explain it is a hail storm. There where times when we were only managed to stay on the ground bacause we carried big backpacks.

We hiked back the 11km we did yesterday and anothe 8km to something called camp Italiano. We actually had planned to either to a small side excursion or to continue to another camp but we were simply to depressed to continue.

The trail is actually quite easy to walk but this time a year it's peak season so there are a lot of people here so as soon as there is some rain the paths turn into a mud bath almost impossible to walk.

It's quite fun to watch how many locals dress in the trails and it's quite clear they don't come prepared for rough weather. We have seen many people with jeans and sneakers and they get soaked to the bone. Actually when we took the catamaran yesterday we wondered if we came over dressed compared to many of the other people on board. That has not been the case, but in the end not even our gore tex coated clothes stands a chance and by the end of the day we were soaked.

If the weather remains this crappy we'll try to hike out either by tomorrow evening (wednesday) or thursday. But in the way of our freedom lies 18km of almost impenetrable muddy paths and then another 7km road to walk.

Lets hope for some sun tomorrow because it would suck to throw in the towel this early.

On a more positive note we had a great dinner and our sleeping bags are still dry (knock on wood) so it is very cozy in our tent right now.