Our final day!  We were slow movers that morning.  Attempting to leave at 10AM but being caught up in photos, it was closer to 11AM.  We spent nearly an hour photographing our thrid consecutive rainbow.  This one was the coolest we´ve ever seen- anywhere.  Both ends touched Lake Nordenskojld and the arch crossed in front of the lone mountain in our view.  It was incredible.

The last day was only 11-12 km but it seemed to take forever.  We had only thought we had experienced Patagonian winds during our preious days and thought those ¨bloggers¨who had claimed to be blown off their feet were streching their stories and must not have had trekking poles.  We learned otherwise.

Crossing a saddle mid-afternoon we were both lieterally blown off our feet.  Even with poles in hand.  At one point, Lee pulled out the camera to attempt to catch the intensity of the wind on video and just happened to capture Katie going down hard in the biggest gust of the day. It had to have been at least 90-100 kmph.  As soon as we can figure out how to post this video - we will.  In addition to the wind was the horizontal rain. It made hard to keep packs dry when the wind kept ripping off our pack covers.

We hiked along the 2nd half of Lake Nordenskoljd for most of our final 11 km.  Its terrain is much different between its first and second halves.  One half is very glacial and mountainous, the other - more volcanic.

Our weather that last day was our worst - and it got worse the closer we came to the end.  We were SO grateful and thrilled to have popped for a hotel our final night in the park.  Never have a shower and a bed been more welcome.  Especially since the wind and rain didn´t let up until the next afternoon.

We were to lazy and exhausted to walk the 20 minutes down the road to the hostel for dinnner.  So we put on our ¨cleanest¨ and least stinky clothes and headed to the hotel´s restuarant.  We enjoyed the food AND being dry.  Not to mention variety and improvement from hostel food.  :)