Falco & Marc, German & Swiss cyclists battling headwinds coming north from Ushuaia.

The Finns cycling north took 13 hours, fighting headwinds, to cover the 90 km to El Chaltén.  We flew with tailwinds doing the same 90k in three hours. What a pleasant feeling to be moving so fast on good pavement after cycling on gravel for 750 km on Chile’s Carretera Austral.  Julie’s borrowed tire started to bulge (after 800 km of use) so we put her spare back on.  Thanks again, Shauna.  Then we turned west and southwest, taking 2 1/2 hours to cover the last 21 km.  We are staying at a roadhouse built in 1894; where in 1905 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (and his wife Ethel Place) lodged for a month after robbing a bank in Rio Gallegos.  Was there no posse hot on their trail?

The Phichi is a dwarf armadillo.

La Leona Roadhouse, named for a female Puma that attacked an early explorer here.

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