Blog and photos by Shelby Sawyer, Franklin and Marshall College On Thursday, we left the hostel in Coyhaique to begin fieldwork in Cerro Castillo National Reserve. On the way, we picked up Carolina, a local expert on the endangered huemul…
Video by Margaret Bonnell, Carleton College Team Huemul reflects on the time they’ve had in Patagonia, hiking in Cerro Castillo National Reserve, where they first began their adventure.
Sylvia Kinosian University of Vermont ’15 Round River Taku 2014 This past September, almost exactly two years after I packed my bags for a semester in Patagonia, I started a PhD program at Utah State University. I hadn’t been sure…
By Alex Walt, Eckerd College (Team Guanaco) I am sitting in the bus terminal in Puerto Montt right now, fresh out of Coyhaique this morning and just hours after a tough goodbye to the friends with whom I…
By Alex Wells, Middlebury College (Team Huemul) Photos by Ben Comai, University of Vermont It was late in the Patagonian evening when we made it back to our beachfront basecamp. After spending the previous four days backpacking a total of some…