All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate
in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.
Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs
testify to time’s relentless melt. --Susan Sontag
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| Studying the map |
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| Cerro Castillo, Chile |
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| Hiking through the mountain pass |
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| Waterfalls and Glaciers |
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| Walking over a glacier |
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| The Carretera Austral--we walked and hitch hiked the entire road (770 miles) |
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| The fire master |
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| Feeding a stray |
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| Looking down on the valley from the top of Cerro Castillo |
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| Pasta Night |
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| Crossing Lake O´Higgins |
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| Lima, Peru |
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| Water Crossing |
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| Mendoza, Argentina |
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| Doing the dishes |
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| Mendoza Wine Tour |
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| Grapes straight off the vine |
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| Hiking to Argentina |
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| La Paz, Bolivia |
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| Train Graveyard in Bolivia |
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| 8...9...10! |
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| Yet another water crossing |
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| Mirar Flores, Peru |
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| Dave and a glacier |
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| The Futa!!! |
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| Dinner |
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| At the take out |
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| Dave standing over the Futaleufu River |
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| Catfish... not exactly a piranha |
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| 2 AM security stop... looking stylish, I know |
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| Observatory in La Serena, Chile |
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| Chaitan, Chile |
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| Lima, Peru |
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| De Rio Futa |
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| Hanging out Playing cribbage in our tent |
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| Quite disappointed with South America´s coffee. |
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| Paddle captain |
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| Enjoying some easy water before the next rapid |
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| Another boat crossing |
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| Castillo |
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| Rainbow over the Cerro Castillo |
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| A small port town in southern Patagonia |
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| Dave being Dave |
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| Cheeks full of Coca Leaves |
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About to roast some bratz
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| Marselo trying to sike me out at the put-in |
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| Bussing our way through Bolivia |
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| Cutting Dave´s curly locks... it turned out well |
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| Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina |
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| My lil´ninja |
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| Cribbage--our favorite past time |
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| Cutting up veggies for a salad |
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| El Chalten, Argentina |
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| It was a crazy, windy day |
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| El Chalten |
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| Castillo--¨Castle¨ in Spanish... you can see where it gets its name |
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| Edible Patagonia berries |
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| Peru |
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| It´s hard to put the camera down in this place |
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| Dave straddling the border of Chile and Argentina--nice socks |
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| Villa Cerro Castillo |

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| These guys were every where in the Pampas |
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| An amazing hike from Villa O´Higgins, Chile to El Chalten, Argentina |
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| Another boat-crossing shot... we took a lot of boats in Chile |
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You
can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. --Joan MirĂ³