ENG:Glaciar San Francisco / Monumento Natural el Morado

2010-01-11T18:12:59Z

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Pueblo de Baños Morales, punto de partida.
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Glaciar San Francisco, fin del trek.
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[[Image:Valle_glaciar_san_francisco.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Glacier Valley San Francisco]]

== Best season==
*'' 'Trekking''': The best time for trekking is between October and May, Ideally November and December, however you may not be able to reach the mirador of the glacier due to large amounts of snow hanging arond in October and November.
*'' 'Ski touring''': Between June and late September. Even then this depends on how the winters gone and when the last snowfall was. It may well be necessary to load the skis along the first installment.

== Access ==
===By car ===
[[Image: Mapa_monumento_morado.jpg|thumb|200px|right| Map trekking the Glacier access to San Francisco. The start of the trek is marked with a red star (bottom right). Map. Image: [http://www.vialidad.cl Department of Roads]]]
{{Access Baños Morales}} On the road from San Jose de Maipo take a right where the road forks. The road then crosses the river and climbs a bumpy but short road to the village. On approaching the village take the left fork which crosses back acroos the river and up to a car park surrounded by stalls offering various products and services for tourists.
=== Public transport and hitchhiking ===
[[Image: Perfil_trekking_glaciar_San_Francisco.png|thumb|200px|left|Profile altitude trekking. The vertical scale is increased]]
{{Public transport to Cajon del Maipo}}

==Route description ==
[[Image:Ruta glaciar san francisco.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Route Glacier San Francisco]]
[[Image: Comienzos_Trek_Glaciar_San_Francisco.jpg|thumb|150px | right | Beginning of the trek (40 min)]]
[[Image: Valle_Aguas_Panimavida.jpg|thumb|150px|right|View of the Valley of the Waters of Panimávida. Photo taken on the return walk from north to south]]

From CONAF, the route climbs steeply for about 45 minutes. The trail then enters the valley, joining an old vehicular road that zigzags upwards. After about an hour, once the path has climbed this initial lip of moraine, the valley narrows and you come to Panimávida Waters, a number of mineral water wells. Thereafter, the gradient decreases, and the path continues up the valley, with the impressive south face of Morado as a backdrop. After about 1-2 hours of easy flat walking you will reach Laguna de Morales (often mistakenly called "Laguna Morado" For this laguna, see [[Glaciar del Morado]]). This makes a picturesque end point, but it is advisable to continue another hour more, approaching the base of the glacier San Francisco. The trail is somewhat less clear, the slope increases and you are more likely to find snow between October and December.

===Expected Time===

At a normal pace, this trek should take about 3-4 hours between CONAF and the viewpoint of the glacier (the orginal article said 4 but this seems an overestimate). However, what is meant by "viewpoint" is not a defining point, but rather an area. It is a total of 16km there and back with 600m of acsent.

== Permits / Fees ==
[[Image: Mirador_del_Morado.jpg|thumb|150px|right|South wall of the Purple]]
* Entrance to Monumento Nacional El Morado is $ 1,500 per person.

== Recommendations ==
* To climb the Mirador del Morado, the south face of San Francisco or the difficult south face of Morado, we recommend looking at the respective routes in the Andeshandbook:
** [http://www.andeshandbook.cl/cerro.asp?codigo=27 Mirador del Morado]
** [http://www.andeshandbook.cl/rutas.asp?codigo=138 San Francisco. Route Checha, direct variant]
** [http://www.andeshandbook.cl/rutas.asp?codigo=65 Purple. South Wall]
==Waypoints in Google Earth ==

* [[Media: Glaciar_San_Francisco_.kml | San Francisco Route Glacier]]. Download waypoints (())

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