To rest my legs and give myself a chance to recover from my ice walking adventure I went on a 10 mile hike. Instead of going to the middle of the park where Perito Moreno is this excursion took me south along an old dirt road, Route 15, that runs past the Estancias.

The glaciers we were going to see had regressed over the past millennia and the hike gave me a chance to see how they changed the landscape.

We first crossed a lake and headed toward a small forest and series of hills. After scaling the hills, which were fairly steep, the forest let us out at another small lake. We crossed that in little dinghies.

The lake had been at the mouth of a wide river. Now completely dry, we walked along the river bed towards the glacier. The glacier had carved the river out of the mountains and left behind a lot of rocks. Many of the smaller rocks had fossils embedded in them.

Between the dried river bed, looming mountains, and glaciers the area looked like an alien planet out of Star Wars.

We ate lunch on the shore of a frozen lake in front of the Dickson Glacier before hiking back out.