Feb 10- tomorrow head for the famous Torre del Paine and the dreaded Refugios (chilean huts).  It is suppose to be the best park in South America and a trek that is on every hikers top 3 (many place the W hike- five days- as perhaps the top trek in the world, right up there with Anapurna in Nepal.  We shall see).  However, wifi does not seem to be part of the refugio/trekking experience.  So it may be that the blog will go radio silent for 5 or 6 days while I see if I can re-surface from the dreaded Refugios.   You may see me next as part of some Magellanic penguin colony.