smeek12 wrote:I highly reccomend Grajales:
http://www.grajales.net/I can't say enough good things about these guys. Plus their prices are really reasonable.
I guess climbers have received both good and bad service from companies on Aconcagua but we received sh-t service from these guys. They lied to us and left us on the trek out with no food, sleeping bags or tent becaue they wanted to get their mules back to Penitentes to carry in more gear. I still have the letter that was delivered to us on the trail two hours outside of Casa Piedra by one of the muleteers while we carried our small summit packs:
"Mr and Ms Marshall
Sorry but you need to take out your sleeping bags and food [of] your bags because we're having trouble with the river and the arneros need to go back to Penitentes, I'm sorry to disturb you but they need to cross early. Your bags will be in Penitentes when you arrive."
While I was reading this letter the mules bolted, the two muleteers ran after them and we didn't see them again.
What the letter meant was that the muleteers were trying to make it all the way from Plaza Argentina to Penitentes in one day (a trip normally done in two days) so they wanted to get to the river crossing early so the mules could cross before the river swells too much from the afternoon glacial run-off.
Fellow Sper juh33 lost half his gear when a company tried this.
Money now comes first to Grajales and I've swore never to use them again.