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March - April 2011 - Patagonia Tierra del Fuego and Carretera Austral
Just like it was planned, Bertrand is going back to France Siphay and Morgan will carry on just the two of them
Bibi is going home already. We have to think about getting Brian on the road because it's a new departure, travelling with new settings.
Even the Argentinians in Ushuaia aiport don't want Bibi to leave. We're taking off his front wheel at the last moment.
Ah, too bad, they are going to find the drugs in the bike's frame...
We will miss Bibi !
- See you Daniel ! - See you Morgan ! Kiss !
Here in Tierra del Fuego, some problems going on: first I had a terrible knee pain, then discovered my mastress deflates all the time,
and now I've just damaged my front tyre !
We are onboard of a 4x4 made for camping. Morgan at the front, and Siphay with the bikes.
Here we are in Punta Arenas, where we changed the damaged tyre
Now mission for the Torres del Paine national park !
After a few days hiking, we keep on cycling North.
As you can hear, there's pretty much wind right now!
The wind forces us to walk... In El Chalten, we start the mythic Carretera Austral
Oh, f*** !
Right now it's 5°C. We've been cycling with rain all day. Even our socks are wet.
Still under our last minute shelter under the rain... We enjoy this moment to make our tent dry.
- We are cycling by night, and Siphay just got water. - Right, we can go !
- Let's keep on going. - It's solid ! Solidream !
This kind man just catched us on the road for the second time, on purpose. He had promised us a roof, so now we have one.
We have fire here and water there, it's warm. He offered us blankets and mastresses to put on the ground to sleep well.
- We don't even need to use the tent. We're not going to be cold ! - He was ready to give us meat, but we refused.
We still have 9km to until Cochrane.
Right now is a difficult time. My pedal is blocked, so we should take it off but we don't have the right tool. In Cochrane we will find it hopefully.
That's why when it's steep like this, I prefer to walk. And I get back on the bike when it's going down.
Osvaldo, don't forget you need to wait 24 hours.
Here we are at 170km North from Cohayque, in the middle of the forest, and 2 years ago, our friends Clement and Pollo, were here.
Good evening, sirs. I hope you had a good journey. Your mission today, since you accept it, it to find this Capel bottle.
To do that, I let you some clues, pictures...
We intend to face the challenge. Clement, Pollo, are you ready ?
These are the precious clues we have.
We found the first clue. We've been on the road for 7 hours and 95km today, we are still good on the challenge.
We are 1km away from the pass Clement indicated, but we can't find the path because it's dark and our lamps have problems, so we'll wait until tomorrow morning.
Rain again this morning, and ther's a pool under my mastress... My sleeping bag is wet and drying right now.
We are getting ready and about to leave under the rain once again.
Here we are in front of the 'Holy tree'.
[Thank you Clement and Pollo] The Capel treasure !
Here is what can happen to your pedals in somehow difficult conditions.
Our latest prowess: a splitted rim !