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This past summer (I live in Argentina, below ecuator) I went to my home city to visit family and do some hiking arround the island of Tierra del Fuego. This trekking is called "Paso Beban" which translates to something like "Beban Passage". Thomas Beban was a police officer who was asked to look for potential escape routes of an important Prison located in Ushuaia between 1900 and 1950 approx.
Gear:
I took way too much gear to this hike. I had decided to do it on my own so I could take the time to set up shots or even for the appropiate light. But my cousing wanted to come along and then I thought
why not bring the dog? so...
Camera: K-5IIs and P30t film backup
Primes: DA15, 21, 40, 70
Zoom: DA10-17, 16-50, 55-300
Misc: Flash unit, tripod, gels, polarizer, cleaning kit, spare batteries...
Who in their right mind would bring that overlap of focal lengths? a 2Kg tripod to use it 3 times? But the limiteds are so lightweight..
why not? And the DA16-50 is weather sealed, of course...
Take 4Kg of dog food into account, tent, sleeping bag, some clothes, etc, etc... Sums up to 28Kg (15Kg for my cousin, 0Kg for the dog)
I only got to use the DA15 almost exclusively. I couldnīt bring myself to swap lenses or have the weight of the DA16-50 hanging arround.
Enough said:
1. Thereīs a trail at the start. I think itīs used for motorcycle races. Rey (my dog) was too energetic and we had a long way ahead so used the leash for the first part.
2. When the trail ends thereīs a peatbog. We are heading right to the center between the big mountains.
3. After the peatbog thereīs a refuge used by skiers. It was already 18.30 but we decided to keep walking and set up tent in the valley.
4. It did look nice though.
5. I am glad we continued. We got to see this:
6. But light was fading fast, temperature dropping and the floor was too wet so we set the tent over a big rock. Unprotected from wind but with dry floor. After dinner I took this photo:
7. The next day rained a little and they didnīt want to get wet at all. I really like this picture
8. View of the valley we left behind
9. And some interesting rocks. This is a kind of limestone in an interesting stage. there were others with eah layer almost as thin and fragile as paper.
10. Reaching the highest point of the passage (grey mountain on the left)
11. Passage Beban at 850 meters over sea level (started at 30mosl). I was happy, right?
12. Rey didnīt care that much
13. We came from behind Ivana. Thereīs another interesting lagoon to the far right.. For another time
14. Some snow at the top.
15. The way ahead. Final destination is the lake at the foot of the blue mountain in the distance
16. Slopes on the way down before we found a dry place to set the tent and make some fire.
17. Third day was less cloudy and we got to dry some of our clothes and tent before leaving
18. Beavers are an introduced species back in the fifties. They donīt have a natural predator and they are doing a lot of damage...
50 years later the goverment still doesnīt take action and it is really sad.
19. Beaver work
20. Rey making his way through the edge of the dam
21. Nice spot for launch. Whatīs the hurry?*
22. One more dam
23. As if beavers werenīt enough there was a fire 2 years ago. The worst part is that it was started by the govermentīs own natural resources people... Unbelievable
24. Last stage to the lake. The sun got ahead of us. Wish I had gotten here earlier*. You can see the path used by the fire workers on the right
25. Nice lagoon
26. Just a bit late to see the sun..
27. Arrival. Can you see the moon? It was beautiful. I checked moon set in my GPS and set an alarm to wake up before it dissapeared behind the mountain but I was too tired when it sounded.. Shame on me! I just peeked my head out of the tent and stared at it. My cousin couldnīt move.
28. Rey was really tired
29. But he was the first one up
30. So much DA15 photos.. I had to put one with a nice starbust.
Hope you enjoyed the series.
Originally posted by carrrlangas 
Post #1 by carrrlangas
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