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==Season 2025/26==
''' GPT 13 + 14ish | 2 days | 12/31-1/1 | RR, 13 Variant A, RR, Variant A '''
Someone call animal control! Jokes, but seriously I’ve been battling.
Started from Licura on RR, all good for first 5km until I reached Settlement and was stopped by 4 hounds bolting at me. There wasn’t an option to pass around them, they fully blocked path before I even was close to the house. Just turned around and decided to walk road.
After a few Km someone offered me a ride to Icalma, and being dusted and dried out I accepted.
From Icalma I walked to the border, crossed, ate lunch in the shade, and crossed back. Argentina was beautiful!
Continued on to GPT 14. Made it to bushwhack section, got kinda lost, but then found this beautiful new path and decided to explore it.
For a while it ran parallel to the RR, but such a nice path so I kept on, thinking it would intercept Variant A. After like 6km it took a turn, and started heading back the way I came, but actually intercepted the main road (Variant A). I was behind a gate and barbed wired, and since it was late I opted to sleep somewhere in the woods. I felt bad about being on someone’s property but I didn’t have much of an option. There were cows…pretext.
The night was kinda scary ngl, lots of cow sounds. I awoke before sunrise and got on the move. However, 3km down the Main Road I was stopped clean in my tracks.
I intercepted a mama cow and its baby, on different sides of the road. I stopped with distance and let them join together. However, when I start to try and walk past the mama became aggressive. They were up against some barbed wire. I kept my distance and tried to wait it out. After 15 minutes of angry Mooing and a stare down, I decided to shout, blow my whistle, and wave my polls. It kinda worked.
Mama crossed over to other side and started to ignore me, but the baby didn’t. I waited, but then the baby started to approach me. I yelled a bit, but then the mama started to run towards me.
I jogged away, out of sight, but now Mama was straight charging me. In fact, she took a shortcut through a dirt path and tried to cut me off, fully running. I ran away lol, and was intercepted by another group of cows. Luckily, they moved away and let me pass.
Beaten down, with my new year starting with a cow charge, I headed back to Icalma. I think i’ll go to GPT 16 now hehe.
Maybe I’m not a country boy who doesn’t know cows, but I was scared for real. Little video from before the charge.
''' GPT13/2025-12-26/RR-variant F+A/SOBO/Denis and Robert '''
We resupplied in Liucura, very solid shops, able to buy camping gas. We stayed one night in Cabañas Garcia for 40 000 pesos for Cabaña for two people. We asked to wash our clothes and they were happy to do it for us, as well small shop straight next to the cabañas (same owner). We started afternoon and it took us 8 hours to get to camping San Alfonso (15000 pesos per tent). Easy going section not that busy in the evening.
Difficulty 1/5
Attractiveness 1/5
*'''2025-08-25: Track file update 2025 and investigation suggestions of Jan Dudeck'''
- The Regular Route is located east of Rio Biobio to avoid walking on the primary road between Liucura and Icalma. But the Regular Route requires fording Rio Biobio. Early in the season during snowmelt, this might not be safely possible.
Southbound hikers: If the upper Rio Biobio is not safely fordable, hikers must make a 14 km detour to cross the river on a bridge near Lago Gualletue. Therefore, early in the season with river level high, hikers better walk the main road (Variant A) or even take the bus from Liucura to Icalma to avoid 30 km of road walking.
Northbound hikers: In this direction its only a 2 km detour to check out the ford location of Rio Biobio and opt for the primary road should the river level be too high.
Packrafters: With a packraft the upper Rio Biobio offers some calmer sections where ferrying over the river should be safely possible.
==Season 2024/25==