Apr 11, 2006 - Semana Santa Trip - Las Leñas

Las Lenas, Mendoza - After getting pretty vague directions from the pre-season ski patrol on site, using a very old faded map (that we couldn't take with us), we headed out to camp and climb Cerro Las Lenas. We walked a few kilometers along the dirt road away from the ugly condo complex of the resort and towards the land of gauchos and handmade adobe houses. We were never quite sure where we should turn off the road, but we finally decided to cut through an abandoned property, now seemingly taken over by a herd of goats. The weight of our...