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Day One begins for Bryan with early rising and dressing in borrowed layers of ski clothes. - PICT0002
Cameron perches on the couch, ready to go. - PICT0003
Bryan and Dad try on rental boots. - PICT0004
Bryan tests his rental boots (very stable). - PICT0005
Dad pays an exorbitant amount of money for lift tickets. - PICT0006
Dad, Bryan, and Cameron head for the first lift line of the trip. - PICT0007
Dad begins Bryan's training on the bunny slope. - PICT0008
Cameron, poised on the slope. - IMG 2818
We arrived in Santiago at about 7am (time there is the same as eastern). We got a coupon for lunch, and only had to wait through the 11hr layover. Here is your humble narrator getting a little sleep in the terminal. - IMG 2820
Sunset in Santiago, many hours of waiting later. We forgot to take a picture of our last flight from Santiago to Quito that lasted about 5 hours. The total travel time was about 34 hours. Whee. - 101 0160
You know what never gets old (for me)? Taking pictures looking up at trees. Expect a lot here. - 101 0162
I tried putting my nalgene in front for scale, but it didn't look quite right. So trust me, this was a big tree. - 101 0163
Many of the biggest trees (like this one) had been gutted by fire at some point in their history. So while they were still healthy and thriving (takes more than a fire to kill a 2,000-year-old tree), you could could crawl inside them and stand it the middle of the trunk. - 101 0165
More: looking up a trees. Whee! - 101 0166
There were a surprising number of stands where 6 or 7 giant trees grew right next to each other. Here, Bryan and Jeff stand between several. - 101 0167
Bryan decides to walk quietly. Like Indian brave. - 101 0168
More reasonably sized trees. - 101 0169
I do my level best to hug a tree. - 101 0170
Bryan and Jeff, framed by a fallen tree whose insides had rotted out. - 101 0172
Jeff crawls through the inside of said tree. - 101 0173
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