Chile Build: R & R

*** Please note...all R & R activities were paid for by the participants and did not come out of any fundraising...***

Now that we're clear on that...our R & R in Pucon was amazing!!!
The town had the mountains, adventure activities and quaintness of Whistler and the lake and nightlife of Grand Bend....

The Grand Pucon Hotel was amazing as you can see from these pictures...

The view from our room....

This one is for Ramona....

Tracy, Lili, Matt, Kristi and Michelle Hydrospeeding..... (it's a form of white water rafting on a boogie board)

Before....

During....

And living to tell about it....

(check out Volcan Villarica in the background...)

The next day, 11 of us climbed up Volcan Villarica...the most active volcano in South America...

Usually you can take a chairlift up part of the way to cut out an hour of the 5 hour climb....but it was too windy...This made for a long and bitter climb up to the first rest station....

The team at the first rest station.......

At this point in the next picture, I felt like I was a character from "Into Thin Air" and had tried to turn around about three times....If I ever get another crazy idea like this, please sit on me until the thought passes...

At the top, at the edge of the crater..... Finally!

The two best parts of the climb were watching the lava spurt out of the crater and sliding down the mountain luge style...both of which I was too busy experiencing to take any pictures...so will post some of the other team members' pictures soon! Here's some thanks to Matt....