>>1179586The weather is very unpredictable. The other day it went from 80F and sunny to 30 mph wind and snowing over the course of an hour. I brought a 2 person 4 season tent and a tarp for my gf and I, 2 synthetic puffy jackets, 2 pairs of long underwear, pants, one long sleeve and one short sleeve shirt, a fleece, a wind jacket, rain jacket/pants, mountaineering boots + crampons (honestly could have done without these), sandals, a sun hat and a beanie, and two pairs of underwear. Plus a 0F synthetic sleeping bag. No down, because it rains all the time here. I used large heavy duty construction trash bags to waterproof the inside of my pack. My pack is 80L, which seems to be the perfect size for what I've been doing. As far as maps go I've been using my phone mostly, it is hard to get physical maps here if you are going to non touristy places.
I also brought a liquid gas powered stove (been mostly using gasoline, white gas is hard to find), one pot and one pan, a thermos (very important! Constant yerba mate all day), 10g of hash, and a bottle of weed tincture. A good amount of lsd, dmt, and 3-meo-pcp as well.
It's such an amazing place. The more time I spend here the more I want to stay. An almost unlimited amount of unreal nature and unclimbed glacieted mountains. I've been hoping to go to the avellano towers (there's a great video of the place on vimeo) but the rivers in the valley are a little high to cross right now, especially with the gf. If you can afford it, I highly recommend all the NOLS Patagonia courses, especially the semester course. It really made me good at camping in Patagonia and familiarized me with the area and logistic planning unique to hear. Everything is very hard to get to and usually involves waiting all day to hitchhike or paying way too much money.
