Monday, September 26, 2016

Latin America

Mount Fitz Roy

Santa Cruz, Argentina




This week we visited Latin America. Our favorite place we visited was Mount Fitz Roy in Argentina. Ftiz Roy is located in the southwest corner of the Santa Cruz province, on the Chilean border. The peaks pictured above are actually the inspiration behind the Patagonia brand logo. We learned that Mount Fitz Roy was named after Captain Robert FitzRoy, whom was the Captain of the HMS Beagle. 



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The mountain is made of granite rock. Due to the vertical faces and often brutal weather, scaling Fitz Roy is quite difficult. Fitz Roy is in a very isolated part of the country. On average the mountain will only yield one successful climb a year, while Mount Everest may yield a hundred a day. The closest city to Mount Fitz Roy is El Chalten, which is thirteen kilometers to the southeast.   
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

North America

Schlitterbahn

New Braunfels, TX

Today we went to the Schlitterbahn water park in New Braunfels, TX. New Braunfels is a town of 63,000 people located about thirty miles north east of the San Antonio metropolitan area. The Schlitterbahn water park is seventy acres that uses the water from the Comal River, located just to the southeast of the park. The water park is a neat experience because some of the water comes out the Comal River. The water is surprisingly clean, for being river water.

My favorite ride we went on was the Raging River Tube Chute. It was forty-five minutes of tubing down a lazy river type ride. It was a very unique ride, the Tube Chute was lazy for a portion of the forty-five minutes, while we worked our way around the river and the park. The last fifteen minutes of the Tube Chute were very intense and fun. We also enjoyed the the wave pool pictured below. 


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