Voyage

This will be short. Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world, is beautiful, surrounded by mountains, built on the slope of the base of snowy peaks, it has a sheltered harbour on the Beagle Canal and in the distance across the channel the Dientes de Navarino loom large and to the right the massive Darwin range towers in the distance.
I will be back in June to teach cross country skiing with the Club Andino and do some randonee/backcountry skiing in the mountains as well as perhaps some iceclimbing and light mountaineering if I´m lucky... but first...
I am going to crew on a 40ft sailing yacht, owned and captained by an Australian man who has been sailing, solo and crewed in every corner of the world for the past 9 years. We are heading to Puerto Montt, the same route as the Navimag ferry, through massive fjords, past untouched, and indeed unseen glaciers, deserted bays in the rain, wind, snow... i have no idea what it will be like, I cannot even imagine, but at the end I will post a big blog!
This, for me is a dream, an opportunity of a lifetime and a peice of what is becoming a perfect puzzle of a chapter of my life! I am now hanging around Ushuaia, buying gear (rain stuff and rubber boots, thick socks... - as there is a lot of waiting in the cold storm stay weather) and buying books for all the down time.
The voyage will last, with many days for exploration and storm stays (waiting for better weather, because in these thousands of islands and narrow passages you cannot sail in very bad weather nor at night, so progress is very slow) - including all this it could take almost 3 months maximum to arrive in Puerto Montt. I will likely hop off in one of the few ports along the way (really there are about three populated ports on the rout before Chiloe) with a total of 3weeks to a month and a half on the boat.
More news to come.