As you might be slowly gleaning, the weather was not very good this past summer season in Patagonia. However, getting good luck or bad luck with the weather is simply part of the activity of climbing mountains, and there is no point in getting bummed out about it. One can always make the most of what one gets. While I was in Patagonia this season there were only two spells of good weather longer than 24 hours. Both were preceded by lots of stormy weather so conditions on the faces were not very good. When a two-day window finally materialized at the end of January, Austin and I made the risky decision of sitting out the first day of good weather, hoping the conditions would improve for one big day of climbing. On the second day, we headed to the Afanassieff Ridge on the west face of Chaltén. There is no climbing on the route that is very severe but it is the biggest route on Chaltén and had never been climbed in a day before. This photo was taken about one quarter of the way up the route, right when we started to encounter significant amounts of verglas on the rock—tricky conditions that slowed us down considerably.