Séron to Dickson

Day 2
18.5 km, Séron to Dickson.
We start the day with a beautiful sunshine and light breeze through fields and fields of marguerites. We climb a small pass and are rewarded by a stunning view of the Lago Paine and an impressive mountain range. The wind got stronger but the weather holds. On the way we keep pass and be passed by the same couples and make jokes about it. We have also started giving nicknames to the different groups we met:
- the Efficients: minimalist backpacks, fast walkers
- the South Africans: for the nice family
- the Screamers: an American group who speaks for the whole campsite (one will wash her underwear tomorrow)
- The Poles: who are in fact from Chile
- The Terrex couple: both head to toes clad in Adidas Terrex gear
- The granola girl: spent about 3 hours doing yoga after the hike and was gone by the time we woke up (although no kale in her soup, I checked).
- The egg friers: a nice group of Venezuelian who packed a box of at least 48 raw eggs, a whole butter box, full bottles of wine and scotch they had to carry in groceries bags on the way. They were happily cooking scrambled eggs with onions when we left in the morning.
- The nod couple: we passed them so many times on the trail that we agreed we did not need to greet each others while passing another
- The exercise group: started doing sit ups upon arriving at the campsite.
- The middle life crisis: started ultra trail running, wants everybody to know about it. Runs the O trek in minimal equipment and hires 2 porters to carry his luggage.
We need to register at the Guarderia Coiròn and reach out he Dickson campsite beautifully situated next to the Lago Bianco. The peaks and glaciers are all immense and the water is turquoise. The campsite is more crowded in Dickson, but the weather helds.Læs mere