13 Break for the Argentina border again

After a quiet dry night in town we discover again that local disco is located on the outskirts of town and people rev their cars to leave said disco! Otherwise a good night as it’s dry.
We are embroiled in absent members WhatsApp tirade and now someone has lost a power pack .
It’s an early start but we’re late so we may camp this side of border as the road is pretty tortuous and there’s a lot of washboard type going up and also going down!
So the truck and big brother dynamics after two weeks: there are the originals with one or two issues! There are the newbies - us plus three ; then there is the-young guns vs old hands; also a few individuals who try to co exist wisely . There two married couple . Two this tour joined couples. And us ? We are definitely the odd couple with quirks and bickering! With three weeks left for us but some of the originals are going further so local irritations will grow - watch this space!
We pass through the comuna de Rio Ibanez , a road through the mountains , scree one side and snow capped mountains the next - spectacular scenery even better in the sunshine, still tracking the Austral road.
We eventually bottom out in the classic glaciated U shaped Valley and river .
The big lake Lago
General Carerra bordering Patagonia national park appears to go on forever as we hug it’s shoreline.
As we were late setting off our plan now is to camp this side and cross tomorrow as are unlikely to make it to Chile Chico crossing tonight .
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