Day 1: Off We Go! With the truck all packed up, cooler full, and a rough plan for 5 days in the Black Hills of South Dakota, we said our goodbyes to Summit & started driving north. We left around 8am on Wednesday and were looking at a 5.5hr drive to Sheridan Lake — our first campsite for the trip. The drive from Boulder to Custer, SD is primarily open plains and prairie land (including the GIGANTIC Buffalo Gap National Grassland). We wanted to make some stops to break up the

The Fitz Roy Massif. Peaks from left to right: St. Exupery, Rafael Juárez, Poincenot, Fitz Roy (tallest), Val Biois, Mermoz, and Guillaumet Although the photo above was clearly taken from google images, it really displays how dramatic this range is, so I felt it'd be useful. Our plan upon leaving the house in Chaltén was to climb Royal Flush on the east face of Fitz Roy, a ~4,000ft tall face and one of the longer routes in the range. I was anxious, as this would without a dou