The third day of hiking was starting to catch up to us. We were hiking what is known as the "W" in Torres del Paine. The "W" is said to take an average hiker 4-5 days to complete but we only had about 3.25 so we had to skip one part. If you look on the picture of the map, at the start of the third day, we were at the bottom of the 2nd part. We decided to skip the middle section of the W and make our way over to the 1st part to see glacier grey (we were traveling right to left).
We started hiking, and it was a really really nice stroll. Barely any uphill and an all around good day. We were actually ahead of schedule and decided to take a nice long healthy lunch break. Some people hike 20 miles a day and sprint through the "W" circuit but I was actually really happy being able to relax and enjoy the ambiance of the wilderness! We had to leave the next day at 10am, so we had to plan out the rest of our hike. We decided to take it real real easy on the third day and only go from the bottom of the 2nd section to the bottom of the 1st section. Then we would wake up really early on the 4th day to quickly do the last leg of the W then make our way home.
We had a really nice relaxed hike and made it to the beautiful campground at the bottom of the 3rd section around 6pm. Since Patagonia is pretty much the southern most point of the world other than Antarctica, the days are very long right now so we could enjoy the sunlight for quite a while. We took it easy at the campsite, enjoyed the a local specialty beer "Austral" (imported straight from civilization via horse caravan) and went to sleep around 9pm.
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