We woke up nice and rested from the previous day, a feeling we hadn't had in a while and felt amazing! We were ready to tackle the last two days of the trek. On day 7, we hiked from Cuernos to Campamento Torres, only an hour from the culmination of the trek which we would see the next day! We were pumped. The hike started out nice and easy, pretty flat, with only a few hills and some nice lake views along the way. The weather was fantastic, and it was nice and sunny and hot all day.
Soon we ran into a sign for a shortcut... hmmm, shourtcut? Sure, why not?!
Well, the shortcut started off relatively flat, but soon turned into a pretty much vertical climb over loose rocks and gravel, dammit!! We were getting pretty tired and hot in the sun going up up, up all morning. But of course we were rewarded with totally amazing views of mountain valleys and glacial lakes behind us. After about an hour on the shortcut, we joined up again with the other trail.
At this point we took a little break and started chatting to another couple on the trail who were just chilling out in the same spot we were. Their names were Amy and Miles, and it turned out that they were climbers there to take on climbing routes on the Torres. The Torres are the huge 4000m spires of rock that is the main attraction of the trail. We were hiking there to just look at them, and couldn't even fathom trying to climb them. Hiking to the base and looking at them was enough adventure for us!
Amy and Miles had already been in the Park for a few weeks, and were planning on spending another month climbing. They had already done a first ascent of a route on the Torres. So badass. We chatted with them about climbing for a while and hiked along the trail with them for a while. Super awesome people.
We got to the Torres camp, set up, and met a camper next to us - Paul from Calgary. Turns out he was a geologist so he was a great guy to meet. He gave us an overview of the geology of the Andes and the Torres.
Then we made our last rice dinner, and went to bed. We were going to wake up really early the next morning for our final day.
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