This will serve as our centralized planning doc for our forthcoming Patagonia Mountaineering Expedition, which we are aiming to complete in late 2024 / early 2025 window. This is a mountaineering expedition, with technical segments — not a hike.
| Mission Objective | Patagonia Mountaineering Exploration | |
| Route | TBD > AllTrails | |
| Difficulty Rating | Technical, Hard | |
| Summit Elevation | 7,000 – 11,000 ft / 2,100 – 3,400 m | |
| Trailhead | 0 ft (start at beach / ocean) | |
| Vertical Gain | ??? ft | |
| Distance | ??? miles round trip | |
| Trip Window | TBD 2024 / 2025 | |
| Weather Forecast | > patagonia weather primer |
WTF is Patagonia?
Honestly, I hadn’t really even considered it for my adventures. I’d heard stories, sure. I was vaguely familiar with the brand.
Then Meesh mentioned it (“Denali! Patagonia! Pakistan! the Himalayas!”)
But what pushed me over the edge was an Instagram account that suddenly popped up in my feed (are they listening?!?!?):
Now, this Patagonia place is most certainly on the bucket list!
short answer: the name Patagonia generally references the mountainous region that encompasses the entire massive southern peninsula of South America (the “tail.), which extended from roughly -39° to -55° south latitude (informally, bounded on the north by the Colorado River (the South American one, not the one in the American Rockies), and the south by Tierra del Fuego. Nationality-wise, the western sliver is part of Chile, while the eastern chunk is within Argentina. It is my present guess that the ridgeline of the Andes mountain range is what defines the border between Chile (W) and Argentina (E).
…research pending…
Patagonia Mountaineering Inspo Imagery
The winding Rio de las Vueltas in #elchalten #patagonia #argentina — photo by Ty Lekki
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Filo de Hombre Sentado (with climber) – photo by Ty Lekki
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Patagonia Etymology
(if ChatGPT is hallucinating, I’m buying it)
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Patagonia Geography
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