It looks like they forget a few of the planks! Not as bad as it looks, though. This is about half-way up our hike to Refugio Frey in the Cerro Catedral area of the Lakes District of Patagonia. The hike starts about 45 minutes outside Bariloche. We went in for two nights / three days.
Since real estate is so expensive in the U.S., we´ve decided to buy some property and move down here. How about this little place? Actually, this is a small refugio (hut). It is built entirely up against and under the huge bolder above it. Inside is a little wood stove, some pots and pans, and a wooden platform that would sleep about eight.
This was our basecamp for the two nights of our trek. You can see our little blue tent sticking out of the rocks on the left side of the picture (remember, you can click on any of these pictures to see a bigger version). The hut is Refugio Frey, where people with brains spend a few bucks to have a bed out of the wind! Actually, we were pretty happy in our tent and we were able to use the kitchen facility in the hut. There were many other trekkers braving the conditions in tents around us. It seems that there are huts everywhere down here and many people just go hut-to-hut, and travel light. It´s a very European style of backcountry travel.
The view from our campsite right before sunset. The big peak is Cerro Principal.
Michael works on tightening the guy lines for the tent - a frequent activity. Luckily, our knots held and neither the tent, nor we, blew away. 
Rosemary either praising the beautiful scenery or hoping to take flight in the strong gusts.
Michael channels warm thoughts, while lying in the tent reciting the entire Ballad of Sam McGee. The tent was one of the few places to escape the relentless, and very cold, winds.
Just above camp we could easily scramble into the heart of the crazy spires and rock towers of the large mountains above the lake. The area reminded us of a mix between the North Cascades and the crazy rock formations of the desert southwest.
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