{"id":379,"date":"2011-03-04T22:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T20:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/?page_id=379"},"modified":"2012-06-23T18:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T15:49:22","slug":"guillaumet-brenner-ridge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/pictures\/guillaumet-brenner-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Patagonia – February 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some pictures from our trip to Patagonia in February 2011. We summitted two peaks this trip – the Aguja Guillaumet and the Torre de la Media Luna. We climbed\u00a0the Guillaumet\u00a0via the Brenner ridge and the Media Luna via Ruby y Azul route.<\/p>\n

This trip was Olli’s first time and my second time in Patagonia. I was\u00a0in El Chalten\u00a0for the first time with Lauri in February 2007. That trip we climbed the Couloir Amy on Guillaumet. We also tried the Franco-Argentine\u00a0route on Fitz Roy too many times. On our best\u00a0try in 2007\u00a0we got as far as 1o pitches up the route proper. We were three times in the Italian Breche and we hiked up to Paso Superior\u00a0four times. We tried the Franco\u00a0twice in this 2011 trip, too,\u00a0and twice we turned back before reaching the Breche. We thought about trying it for the third time, too,\u00a0but the route seems to get very crowded with good weather.\u00a0As soon as we\u00a0learned there were\u00a0going to be at least 10 people on the route at the same time\u00a0we opted for other objectives. We’ve never been\u00a0too big fans of queuing and we reasoned it would be much more fun actually summiting something.<\/p>\n

In February 2011 there were two long\u00a0spells of good weather in El Chalten. We missed the first five day weather window because\u00a0I was sick but in the second window we climbed the Aguja Guillaumet on February 19th and the Media Luna on February 21st. Both these routes are short routes by Patagonian standards.\u00a0In Patagonia a route with 350m of vertical\u00a0gain and\u00a0500m of climbing length is a short route. On the way up to\u00a0Media Luna I\u00a0even joked about going sport climbing.<\/p>\n

Aguja Guillaumet: Brenner Ridge (6b, 350m) – February 19th, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

The Guillaumet can be approached either via Paso Superior in 7 hrs or via Piedras Frailes\u00a0in 3 hrs. The Brenner ridge is a first class route if you like rock climbing on stellar granite.<\/p>\n

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