Trecking in the snow at Hielo Azul Refugio hut
Wintery blast coming from above
Look, I was really there!!
The famous glacier named ¨blue ice¨. We couldn´t get up to it, due to incliment weather. But we tasted the water and it was very fresh.
A family with two young children lives here. We thought how some days might feel like the movie ¨The Shining¨ when youre stuck with too much snow and nowhere to go...at least they have lots of bread and beer.
Lichen covered trees
Lake on the hike up
Our refugio was somewhere below in that valley...
Old growth Legua trees
Thanksgiving, CIDEP style. Chris made chicken soup from the rooster he killed, someone else made french fries and homemade mayonase, someone else made a stirfry, and I (Beth) picked rhubarb from the garden and made pie. Everyone at CIDEP humored Chris and I and partaked in our ¨Accion de Gracias¨ or Thanksgiving. The dinner was very Argentine style...we ate at like 10 30 pm after a long day of shoveling sheep poop and hauling it to the garden to fertilize the soil.
Sweet truck a friend brought in to haul sheep poop to CIDEP. He bought it off of the Argentine army, who previously bought it off the US army. Aparently it was made for the Vietnam war. We however, rode it along the backroads with panaramic mountain vistas with the driver shirtless and with stylist sunglasses to a nearby farm to get the goods. Wow, what a day in el Bolson.
Hungry? I harvested these veggies from the garden for lunch, and yes, I´m using an old TV satilite dish...now thats permaculture for you, reusing everything!
¨Permaculture Movement: Lets be the change we want to see in the world¨
Here I am stuffing pieces of plastic into old bottles...this is how these permaculturists deal with waste....theres no trash disposal service, no burning of trash, so after stuffing the bottles they use the bottles in natural adobe construction of buildings....I kind of felt like I was in 2nd grade again, but boy was it fun!
Serving platter made out of a rubber tire crafted by a previous volunteer. Breakfast in bed!
Straw bale construction
Living roof of house of CIDEP staff
Mosaic table
Trecking in the snow at Hielo Azul Refugio hut
Wintery blast coming from above
Look, I was really there!!
The famous glacier named ¨blue ice¨. We couldn´t get up to it, due to incliment weather. But we tasted the water and it was very fresh.
A family with two young children lives here. We thought how some days might feel like the movie ¨The Shining¨ when youre stuck with too much snow and nowhere to go...at least they have lots of bread and beer.
Lichen covered trees
Lake on the hike up
Our refugio was somewhere below in that valley...
Old growth Legua trees
Thanksgiving, CIDEP style. Chris made chicken soup from the rooster he killed, someone else made french fries and homemade mayonase, someone else made a stirfry, and I (Beth) picked rhubarb from the garden and made pie. Everyone at CIDEP humored Chris and I and partaked in our ¨Accion de Gracias¨ or Thanksgiving. The dinner was very Argentine style...we ate at like 10 30 pm after a long day of shoveling sheep poop and hauling it to the garden to fertilize the soil.
Sweet truck a friend brought in to haul sheep poop to CIDEP. He bought it off of the Argentine army, who previously bought it off the US army. Aparently it was made for the Vietnam war. We however, rode it along the backroads with panaramic mountain vistas with the driver shirtless and with stylist sunglasses to a nearby farm to get the goods. Wow, what a day in el Bolson.
Hungry? I harvested these veggies from the garden for lunch, and yes, I´m using an old TV satilite dish...now thats permaculture for you, reusing everything!
¨Permaculture Movement: Lets be the change we want to see in the world¨
Here I am stuffing pieces of plastic into old bottles...this is how these permaculturists deal with waste....theres no trash disposal service, no burning of trash, so after stuffing the bottles they use the bottles in natural adobe construction of buildings....I kind of felt like I was in 2nd grade again, but boy was it fun!
Serving platter made out of a rubber tire crafted by a previous volunteer. Breakfast in bed!
Straw bale construction
Living roof of house of CIDEP staff
Mosaic table
