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Cerro Navegante
With the holidays on the horizon and the summer heat starting to fill the Chilean Central Valley, it was time to start going higher and higher into the mountains. We had been trying to make an attempt on Volcan Llaima, but the weather forecast for our possible dates tended towards windy and snowy. So we turned our sights towards the Central Andes and closer to Santiago. After some browsing wikiexplora and looking at the options, we settled on Cerro Navegante as an objective. We were hoping the reasonable elevation would both make it an achievable single-day hike and that it might still hold snow so we could use crampons and ice axes (and, in my case, try a ski descent).
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Die Mensch Maschine en Santiago
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend a long-desired live performance of an incredible band. Kraftwerk, the German electronic pioneers, played an awesome show in Santiago at the Teatro Caupolican. I have been listening to Kraftwerk for a little over 15 years now, and remember my first time hearing them, after buying “The Mix” on CD. I became a fan, but never expected to have the opportunity to see them live, owing to the typical combination of limited concerts, expensive tickets, and the shows seemingly selling out before even being announced.
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I Hope You Are Okay
There is a mangled motorcycle standing on the sidewalk a block from my apartment.
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Pucon II: Climbing Volcan Villarrica
This is the second part of a two part series on a trip to Pucon, Chile.
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Pucon I: Hiking Beneath Volcan Villarrica
Pucon is one of the popular destinations in the south of Chile. Sometimes called “the Aspen of Chile”, Pucon sits at the base of the active Villarrica volcano which (as of this writing) last erupted in February 2015. The town is a vibrant outdoors town, and attracts hikers, climbers, mountain bikers, and rafters. Despite being in Chile for two years, I had yet to make it to Pucon, and I had been wanting to climb the volcano.