About the Author Make sure your hiking boots are worn in, waterproof and have reinforced toes. Do some serious stretching before and after hikes. Traveling in northern Patagonia is a remarkably unstructured affair. Tons of hiking.
Trails are everywhere.
Follow one and you'll see snowcapped mountains, waterfalls, glaciers, lakes, islands, and, if you are as lucky as I was, a pig skinning. But knowing where to go, and how to get there, can be quite mind-boggling. For The Travel Channel Online, I traveled to northern Patagonia and went a walkin' and a climbin'. I took leisurely strolls, scaled wet and rocky mountains, ate a lot of meat and checked out as much different terrain as I could. The base for my hiking adventure was the quaint mountain city of Bariloche .