Where the pucon is Pucón
In Chile as it happens. After Bariloche the plan was to head straight down to the very South of Argentina, so how we ended up further North and in a different country I’m not quite sure.
I vaguely recollect a drunken conversation with some other travellers who talked about a snow capped active volcano that could be climbed by novices, and even better, after looking into the crater you could toboggan down the other side.
Too much fun to be missed so two days after not kayaking in Bariloche we found ourselves in Pucón signing various disclaimers, donning our climbing gear, and heading up Volcan Villarrica.
The bits we didn’t know about were the 4am start, the 7 hour vertical slog (Crampons were needed to stop ourselves falling off the cliff face … or maybe it’s a rude term for what was happening to my buttocks), and the suffocating sulphur fumes once we’d reached the summit. I’m not exactly sure what I was expecting the fumes to be like, something else I hadn’t really thought through.
And then for me the best bit of the adventure, a one hour slide back down the volcano on our bums. Snow in every orifice by the bottom. Just another amazing, non neutral, South American experience. More photoshop pics here
Hasta luego 
How many orifices do you have by your bottom?
Too much spit roasting.