The students returned Tuesday from three days of camping at a spectacularly beautiful site on Lake Robalo, with the rugged, snow-covered Los Dientes de Navarino in the background. Days were full of hiking and activities that included capturing and banding birds, monitoring water quality and aquatic invertebrate populations in the Robalo River, learning about research on invasive mammals and learning about the plants of the region. With the exception of a few showers and one overnight hard rain, we had sunny weather, which helped a lot. Everyone now is back in Puerto Williams, showered, in clean clothes for the first time in three days (the trails were very muddy) and fed. A full slate of activities begins in the morning.

 

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