Volunteering in the Future Patagonia Park
After watching the movie 180º South on an environmental film festival in Buenos Aires, I wanted to help creating the future Patagonia Park on southern Chile, a conservacionist project funded and developed by Conservación Patagónica and the Patagonia clothing brand (Yvon and Doug, two of my favourite climbers, bussinesmen, people).
We apply (Ivi and myself) to be a part in the 2014 volunteer program, but we didn´t make it. There were too many candidates, and just a few positions available.
Truth be told, I was a bit frustrated at first, but still, we applied once again the next year, and a few months later we received an email saying that if we were still interested, they had a couple of places on that year volunteers program waiting for us!
The amazing Río Baker
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Parque Patagonia headquarters
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Sunset at "Los West Winds" campsite
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Guanacos
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Don Hernan´s place, near paso Roballos
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Don Hernan (in the middle) working with the sheeps
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Freedom!
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Working with the sheeps
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A brake in a busy day...
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This is how you end up after working a whole day with the sheeps...
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Workers houses near the park headquarters
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View from "Los West Winds" basecamp
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Working in the fields
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Morning mist in the forest
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Cerro San Lorenzo at the Park headquarters
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Our campfire at Don Daniel´s
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Swimming in Cochrane lake
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Group meeting around the fire at Don Daniel´s
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View from Tamanguito summit
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Condor
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Looking for pumas at night
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Caleta Tortel
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Traveling by boat at Caleta Tortel
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