I've been rock climbing since 2005, but I'm not very experienced in alpine and mountains. I've recently taken a mountaineering course (over a 6 month period on navigation, avalanches, weather, crevasse rescue, ice climbing, expedition planning, etc) in which the "grad trip" we summited Mt. Washington in New Hampshire in February with -20°C temps and sustained 80 kph winds gusting to 120 kph. I also just climbed the Grand Teton where we had much nicer weather
.It's hard to find good glaciated mountains in the east coast of the US so I would like to take the chance to get more experience in Patagonia while I am there. I think the volcanoes of Chile around Puerto Montt and Pucón would be perfect, though I also think a longer trip to Cerro Cochrane/Monte San Lorenzo would be really cool.
But more so, I want to spend that time climbing instead of backpacking so if there is any interest in climbing anywhere around Chile/Argentina, please contact me.
