As of April 26, 2015 (yes, I know I am slow in disseminating information, but I am typing all of this on my flip phone), we are done hiking! Forever! After 16 days in Patagonia, we are finally leaving the region, prepping for a 28-hour bus journey to the town to Trelew (which is still technically in Argentine Patagonia, but considered distinct for the purposes of this post – yes, I have the power to redraw ill-defined subnational boundaries through the words of this blog, I bet you didn’t even realize that. Maybe you’ll be nicer to me now. Maybe).

After countless beautiful lookout spots combined with a similar illimitable number of wet and stinky socks, we are officially putting Patagonia in the books.

Not too shabby

By the numbers:

• Days in the Patagonia region: 16
• Countries involved: 2 (Chile and Argentina)
• Major spots visited: 4 (Puerto Nataltes in Chile, and Ushuaia, El Calafate, and El Chalten in Argentina)
• Minor spots visited: 2 (Punta Arenas [Chile] and Rio Gallegos [Argentina] – mainly transit)
• National Parks
  • Parque Torres del Paine (Chile)
  • Parque Los Glacieries (Argentina)
• Kilometers traveled by bus: 3,815 (2,370 miles)
• Hours spent on a bus: 67 (2.79 days)
• Total days actually hiking: 8
  • 5 day-long hikes (7 hours or longer)
  • 3 half-day hikes (approx. 3-4 hours)
• Kilometers hiked: 128 (80 miles)
• Number of kilometers covered when Christine first voiced a desire to give up: 0.75
• Number of glaciers sighted: 3
• Number of glaciers walked on: 1
• Number of rainy days: 2 (not bad for 16 days in Patagonia!)
• Number of hikes for which the cheapest ‘waterproof’ shoes I could find at Sports Authority remained waterproof: 5
• Pounds lost: 11
• Peanut butter & Nutella sandwiches consumed: 33
• Guancos befriended: 4.7
• Guancos that reciprocated friendship: -2
• Money spent: Hey that’s personal (but less than 3 bit coins)
• Sasquatches sighted: 2
• Sasquatches caught: 0 (including on camera)
• Amount of times we will recommend Patagonia to the masses in the future: Infinite
• Amount of times we will recommend Patagonia without waterproof shoes and on only two pairs of socks to the masses in the future: 0