Hi everyone,

Today i'm gonna talk about climbing/hiking hills and mountains, maybe my favourite hobbie right now. I started in the last year when we paralized our classes in May. I was in my house doing anything everyday, so I decided to climb a hill called "El carbón", in Santiago. I liked the experience, and becomes an usual activity of my weekends. This activity (or sport for others) needs a lot of implements, that depends on the climatic conditions and the altitude of the mountain, but the basics are the trekking shoes, comfortable clothes, and sunscreen. But if it's raining, snowing, or even if you need more than one day to make your expedition, you need to changes your implements in your backpack, with more specific instruments. In 5 months I climbed a lot of hills nearly of Santiago, and the highest one was "Cerro Provincia", and also was the most strenous; almost 10 hours hiking into the hills to reach the summit, but anyway.. after the injuries and bad times, was an amazing experience (the summit was snowy).

The implements that you need, if you go to the high mountains (what I want in a few years), are a good helmet, crampons for the ice, ice ax, good ropes and specialized clothing for the freezing conditions. When the conditions are more hard, your entire implements can change, you need to adapt to the conditions.

I attached a photo reaching the summit of "Cerro Pochoco", after a snowfall.

Changes

Hi everyone. 

Sincerely, it's a little bit difficult to describe this photo, because takes personal moments and emotions with hard memories. This picture was taken in my sister's house, in Valdivia. My mom was living here for 7 months in treatment for a serius illness, and my older brother come to Chile from Boston to see her, and also have a chance to reunite everyone for a few days, was for national holidays.

I like it for the sentimental value, for me represents the love that we have for each other when you're having bad days and being far from your family every week, but the most important fact, it's the motivation to keep forward against every bad thing that  happen in your life. Today I see myself stronger than that day and I can say the same thing about my brothers and my mother. It's all about to keep moving, keep fighting, and living.

This pic was taken in september of 2018, and appears my sister Connie (Constanza), my mother Elisa, my brother Víctor, and me. Aesthetically, I don't like it too much, but has special memories of those days. A curious fact: Today i'm wearing the same clothes of this photo, but the differences are my beard, moustache, and my hair that is very longer of those days.

The ideal job

My ideal job to do someday, is a park ranger. I like the outdoor lifestyle, and the protection of the ecosystems. Also I really like to go to the mountains and enjoy exploring his ambient. Some qualities that you need depends on the ambient of the park; if it's in the jungle, you need to protect yourself against the mosquito bites or some dangerous animals. Otherwise, if it's in the mountains, you need some aptitudes to survive there in an emergency case (like white winds). Other awareness that you need, it's about the local wildlife in the area; to protect the species and make studies from him. Maybe I'm not the best now but in a few years I would be good because I'm focused to gain a lot of experience climbing mountains and making big expeditions; but the most important thing, it's because I’m super concerned of the nature life, and I want to protect that.

Maybe the person that is my inspiration for this, it's a guy called Alexis, that I met in a volunteer job in a national park, a few years ago. Alexis is a park ranger from Nonguén national reserve, and he dedicated all of his life to protect the wild protected areas in Chile.