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Ushuaia can still be done for 1 more week.
Hey guys, I just got back from doing Ushuaia and I think that there will not be any snow in the next week. You will probably be safe if you do it in the next 2 weeks but I would hurry up and do it now because it is getting really damn cold. It seems to rain all the time and not have waterproof boots was a real drawback.
There is good camping at Club Andino, which you can find if you follow the signs as you enter town.
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Wish me luck as I am heading off trekking for the next week or two in TdP and still plan to head to Ushia. Care to join me for the caterra austral?
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mate, can you tell them to hold off on the snow for at least a couple of weeks.
I`m in Machu Picchu, and once i leave this area i will be riding south at full noise for
Ushuaia, hopefully before my carb float ices over or my teeth rattle louder than my exhaust noise.
My Swedish mate, Johan, just arrived in Buenos Aires with his bike, and we`ll meet in Mendoza or similar for the rapid ride south. Johan wants us to do some ice climbing (like rock climbing but on frozen waterfalls) while in Patagonia, so at least we`ll have the timing for one
thing correct....
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V sound advice, it was still -3deg C in mid November and snowing last year in Ushuaia so you'd be best advised to check out the rest of SA and head south at the end of the year.
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I would skip Ushuaia for this year. Instead, enjoy Peru' a bit more, see Titicaca, The road of Death, LaPaz or what ever. Once you stop moving, set up cheap accommodation, you can live for very little, give yourself a rest, work on the bike and improve your Espanol.
Then explore N. Argentina in depth. From Mendoza you could plan quite a tour.
Much warmer up north in that area. You could even do Brazil for a while.
Head back south in late October or November.
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Hey!
I have to reply right now...
It´s nice that Ushuaia could be done for at least some more weeks, but what about enjoying Ushuaia, expirience it, see it... please guys:
Ride it, enjoy it, don´t only for having it DONE!
All the best...
Buenos Aires - Ushuaia - Buenos Aires (in 5 month! = tranquilo)
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Wish me luck as I am heading off trekking for the next week or two in TdP and still plan to head to Ushia. Care to join me for the caterra austral?
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Good Luck! I decided to hitchhike the Caterra Austral instead. It is really beautiful and was very nice to have a break from riding.
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Hey!
I have to reply right now...
It´s nice that Ushuaia could be done for at least some more weeks, but what about enjoying Ushuaia, expirience it, see it... please guys:
Ride it, enjoy it, don´t only for having it DONE!
All the best...
Buenos Aires - Ushuaia - Buenos Aires (in 5 month! = tranquilo)
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Yes, but by the same token not everyone can afford to wait 7 months or return to the continent again. Definitely find some warm places to hangout at if you are Ushuaia bound still.
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greetings from ushuaia
i normally should arrived here with my motorbike but finally i had to let it at the argentinian boarder and i finished hitchacking in a canadian van. Now i am there and it was sunny all day. If i could, i would have been happy to be on my motorbike. i think it could be done for a couple of weeks more!
By the way, i'll pick the bike on the way back and heading north through the andes, if anybody plan to do it too, let's make a few kilometers together!
P.S: Tauradan, u remember me, we met in a hiking store in buenos Aires? where r u?
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I appreciate your recommendations, but i prefer to busy all of the day and not rest, it`s my nature. And by "full noise south" i just mean more sunrise starts, and less time spent in bars/discoteqes etc! Same route still and i`m enjoying it so far. I`ve ridden in snow and ice before, and even raced the "International Winter Enduro' last year, in the coldest part of Austria in mid-winter. The timing to Ushuaia may not be ideal, but if we spend more time on our heads than our tyres we can always turn around north. Plus my Swede mate is an ice climber before a bike traveller, so i have to make some allowances...
If anyone thinks i sometimes cover distance quickly, I have a Dutch mate who rode from Vladivostok to Amsterdam in 24 days. And for 9 mths rode either his Triumph Tiger or Daytona 850km to a work project in the south of France each Monday and back Friday rather than fly. Some people just really like to ride!
They`re just not the HUBB often as they`re too busy riding... :-)
(That`s good news Adrien btw.)
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Adrien,
good news about the weather. I'm currently in Bariloche and heading down Ruta 40 tomorrow for some fun fall / winter activities around Torres del Paine. So Adrien if you are around the area we could maybe to a  on the road somewhere...
Anyone done anything more than intro into ice climbing around the area? The tour companies only seem to offer intro courses...
Btw, I'm Simon's "Swedish mate"
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winter in Ushuaia, is it really that bad?
Hello everyone
Just wondering if anyone had advice for 4x4 travel to Ushuaia in winter? We are just shipping to Buenos Aires at the moment, and exepcting to get there in about 3 weeks. We are driving a diesel defender 110 4x4 and were planning on driving right down to the bottom of SA. When I looked at the local weather reports for Ushuaia it didn't seem that bad, since its only as far south as Belfast is north, so I was expecting weather conditions like those in Northern ireland. However reading this thread I'm getting worried. Is it really going to be that bad?
Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.
Cheers
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I just rode out of Ushuaia. I'm about 2000k north now, in Puerto Madryn.
My dad has a Defender in Panama. Awesome car. But it's going to tip over in the wind.
It's the winds. They can be 140km. The winds topple semi trucks, buses, cars... last night north of Rio Gallegos the winds were what the locals called 'mortal.' Be very careful with the winds. I thought I'd seen wind before. Now I've seen wind.
I had 30-70km head winds going south, and then I had 30-80km winds coming back north. It just wasn't fair.
The ripio (gravel and mud) for the last 120km in Chile- before you cross back into Argentina at San Sebastian- it was good gravel going when I rode south, but it was pretty muddy a few days ago. The wind picked up the spray from the trucks and completely covered me. I have a rubber thing on my glove- a little wiper blade. Without it I would not have been able to see anything at all.
It was actually really fun riding the mud.
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However reading this thread I'm getting worried. Is it really going to be that bad?
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In a 4-wheel vehicle, no. People actually live their, get around in 2-wheel drive vehicles, ride buses, take cabs and all that.
Doing it, balanced on two-wheels, on ice/snow, in the winds, without benefit of deicers/defrosters, windshield wipers, the heat switch - now that's a real man's mode of transport.
4-wheels are for weenies.
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ushuaia in october,
i have been having a peep at this thread ,i see april was ok ,do you think it will be possible to do it in october, as in early october ,
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i have been having a peep sat this thread ,i see april was ok ,do you think it will be possible to do it in october as in early october ,
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I am fairly certain you can make fairly easily then as it will be spring, so even if they have some storms, the road should be melting clear fairly quickly. OTH, your riding in the mountains would be could be fairly limited due to excess snow. I don't know if I'd want to bike all of Patagonia and be forced to stay out on the Pompas for all the ride. W/O time spent in the mountains, I think it'd be more of an "I did it" sort of trip as opposed to an amazing tour of some of the world's best scenery.
Perhaps, check on Lonely Planet thorntree to see how fast the snow melts from the roads/mountains of Torres del Paine, El Chalten, the Caraterra Austral and the Lakes District.
Maybe you could shoot down the coast road to Ushuai and head Ruta Cuarenta, side trips to the mountains and the Caraterra Austral on the way back.
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just did it in october
apart from caught in one blizzard the weather was great ,yeah your right about that wind ,hard work on the gravel roads ,,keeps wanting to take out your front end ,but wow how good is it down there
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