A day to remember

Hi everybody! Today I’m going to write about one of the best days of my entire life! It was summer of 2013 and my older sister, Darinka, invited me to join her and some friends on a trip to Patagonia, a place I wanted to visit since I was a little girl. She bought me the tickets to the plane from Santiago to Punta Arenas and I worked 3 months to get the rest of the money I needed. We went to do the Torres del Paine complete circuit, popularly known as the O circuit. 

 I remember I was very nervous because that circuit includes the most difficult trekking in the whole park and I had heard lots of histories about the bad weather that it takes place on that zone of the park. It was the John Gardner path, the highest point (in altitude) of the circuit. 
That day we got up very early, we left camping “Los Perros” at 9 am and we started to walk with 14 kg in our backpacks and with a little rain. At first, the path goes through a forest and the soil was very muddy, so it was very easy to fall. Then we arrive to a zone of  rocks, it was beautiful! You could see many glaciers from there, and it was getting very cold.After 3 hours of walking we finally got to the hardest part of the trekking, but I found it very fun! It was like a game, there was a lot of mist and rain therefore we couldn't see anything that was farther than one meter.

Luckily, there were some rocks painted in orange that showed the way to cross the John Gardner zone, so we stopped in every orange rock and started to look for the other one, sometimes it took us more than five minutes to discover where was the next orange rock, but I was very happy despite the cold air and the mist. Once we got to the final part of that path it was suppose that we were going to see the Grey glacier, but because of the mist we couldn’t see it, so we follow the path into a forest of Nothofagus, it was amazing, it looked like a haunted forest. I knew that once we were out of the forest, we would see the glacier, so I started to run downhill because I was very excited (I fell down like three times, but never mind!)… And suddenly it was there: the entire Grey glacier and it was breath-taking. We have lunch with that view, it was very peaceful. 

     The Grey glacier 

In the park there’s no electricity, so I had no idea of the day of the week or month at that moment, but as soon as I could see a calendar I looked  for the date of that day, it was February 26th, the best day of my life.