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Hoy

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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #30 on: February 27, 2019, 07:33:18 PM »
Quote from: Gerdk on February 26, 2019, 08:39:16 AM
Thank you for sharing these extraordinary impressions!

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You are welcome, Gerd!
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #31 on: February 27, 2019, 07:42:20 PM »
Quote from: hamparstum on February 27, 2019, 11:25:02 AM
Hello Hoy, as usual I'm impressed with your mountaineering. Do you have altitude estimates of where your photos of plants were pictured? Did you feel high altitude sickness along the way? Congratulations
Arturo

Thank you, Arturo.

I did not suffer from anything during the trip. I always walk very slowly when I gain altitude, and we went up and down several times before we crossed the highest pass at 4500m. I have been higher before without being sick.

The pictures are from 1000 - ca 4200m. Most of them from 2500 - 3500m I think. Several of the most interesting plants are from 3500 - 4000m.
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #32 on: February 27, 2019, 07:44:20 PM »
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Oxalis sp. It was a lot of different(?) Oxalis species but all had yellow flowers.

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Arenaria rivularis

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Calceolaria hypercina, almost shrublike - along a river at ca 4000m.

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Montiopsis sericea

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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #33 on: February 27, 2019, 07:58:00 PM »
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Cliffs

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Mimulus luteus, always where water was available.

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Often with Acaena magellanica. We saw a few different Acaena species. The burrs were very unpleasant to get in the socks or on the back when you put on your rucksack!
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #34 on: February 27, 2019, 08:07:05 PM »
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Perezia cathamoides

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Leucheria scrobiculata

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Viola montagnei

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Rather small dark flowers

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Nototriche compacta
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #35 on: February 27, 2019, 08:17:12 PM »
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Down prom the highest crossing at 4500m

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Nassauvia argyrophylla

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Chaetanthera villosa

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Senecio sp

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Here at about 4000m we found one of the few places with real moss along a seepage. Usually mosslike pillows were other kinds of plants.
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #36 on: February 28, 2019, 07:34:15 PM »
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Unknown

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Chaetantera pusilla?

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Maihuenia poeppigii - landscape

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We were a week or so late to see them in full flower. This is a small pillow. The biggest ones were more than 1meter across!
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #37 on: March 01, 2019, 04:42:56 AM »
Quote from: Hoy on February 28, 2019, 07:34:15 PM
...This is a small pillow. The biggest ones were more than 1meter across!
Not one you’d want to rest your head on for long!  ;D
cheers
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #38 on: March 01, 2019, 01:09:30 PM »
Quote from: fermi de Sousa on March 01, 2019, 04:42:56 AM
Not one you’d want to rest your head on for long!  ;D
cheers
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Ouch...to both of you! Wonderful photos Trond, really enjoying your adventure, while the winter winds howl here!
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #39 on: March 02, 2019, 07:55:58 AM »
Quote from: fermi de Sousa on March 01, 2019, 04:42:56 AM
Not one you’d want to rest your head on for long!  ;D
cheers
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Nor sit on it!
But this one is easy to see, it is worse with those plants with hidden spines!
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #40 on: March 02, 2019, 07:56:35 AM »
Quote from: GordonT on March 01, 2019, 01:09:30 PM
Ouch...to both of you! Wonderful photos Trond, really enjoying your adventure, while the winter winds howl here!

Thank you Gordon!
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #41 on: March 02, 2019, 08:00:33 AM »
The last leg!

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The ground was covered by dense mats of an Azorella species.

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Very dry landscape, few plants.

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On the road again. Back to the civilization!

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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #42 on: March 02, 2019, 09:15:29 AM »
Trond, many thanks, very enjoyable.
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #43 on: March 02, 2019, 10:14:35 PM »
Quote from: David Nicholson on March 02, 2019, 09:15:29 AM
Trond, many thanks, very enjoyable.

My pleasure, David!
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Re: Crossing the Andes from west to east by foot
« Reply #44 on: March 02, 2019, 11:01:58 PM »
Trond, just out of sheer curiosity the final road where was it leading to? Was it near the Pampa de Leoncito astronomical observatory?
Arturo
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