We started our fourth day with a monastery breakfast at the refugio (toast, jam and cheese), plus runny eggs and cereal in hot milk.  It was one of our shortest distance days - so we left a little later.  We spent most of the day in a tall lenga forest.  It was nice to have the tree cover since it was our first truly wet day.  We pulled out our rain gear for the frist time and kept it on for most of the day.  It was also our first exposure to the fast changing Patagonian weather.

Almost half way to Perros we saw our first set of waterfalls (close up that is) and then follwed the stream all the way to Perros.  Within half a mile of Perros we climbed the Perros morraine to look at the lake and the hanging glacier.  It was here we REALLY met the wind - and then shortly thereafter, horizontal rain.

We were a little nervous about Perros - everything we read was negative and described it as a mosquito infested mud hole.  Fortunately for us, it hadn´t rained much in prior days and there were many fewer mosquitoes than at Dickson or Seron.  We pitched the tent and were excited to lighten our packs by eating the food we´d brought all the way from home.

Perros had a heated shack with tables and benches for cooking.  It was primitive but warm and social. We went to bed early and slept well.  We were grateful for the quiet and excited/nervous for the big day over the John Gardner pass.