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==Season 2025/26==
* <span style="background-color:aqua;">'''2026-02-24 to 2026-02-28 / 5 Days / Packrafting & Hiking / SOBO then NOBO (anticlockwise "lying P)) / RP / Antoine,Dani, Michel & Lisa'''</span>
General notes:
- If you leave food at the camping (Settler {38-A} [0.5/310]), make sure it's mouse protected. We came back to a few holes in our bags...
- You can buy food at the Camping (very good home made bread, meat (you should notify them in advance since it's frozen), pasta, tomato sauce, oil, eggs, sometimes even beer and wine). And the prices are fair. They have small cabins for 30k and a nice hot shower. Here's the contact for reaching out: Mari Luisa Candelario: mariluisa78(at)hotmail dot com. / 0056 974461661.
- If you want a transport by car to the argentinian border, contact Mari Luisa beforehand, for us it was 10k per person.
- The carabineros want you to fill out this expedition form if you go to the peninsula. They weren't happy when they learned that we went there without notifying them.
- The views on this section are amazing and it's well worth the detour, even without packraft. The best views were from slightly uphill of Camp (38} (20.8/693] (S48.906071° W72.934563°), from slightly downhill of the pass on the peninsula (about -48.91524, -73.03481), from the Viewpoint {38} [35.5/874] and of course from the packraft on Lago Chico.
- Viewpoint {38} [35.5/874] is a good campsite as well, at least in calm conditions and offers amazing views of Lago and Glaciar O'Higgins. The rumbling of the calving glacier can be heard constantly. There are some large boulders that would provide shelter from westerly winds as well. Plenty of water there.
- Don Lucho (actually his son david) asked us for 20k per person for accessing his private property (the peninsula), although we ferried ourselves over the river in our packraft. We asked him if he could do a group price and he went down to 10k per person. We thought it was okay to pay something for the maintenance of the trails (they are actually really very good). If you did the loop in the other direction you might not have to pay anything.
- Doing this loop in the opposite direction (counter clockwise) would be the saver option and at least on the Lago Chico also more scenic. Because you might get stuck at Glaciar Chico in bad weather conditions. The rest is probably more scenic in clockwise direction like we did.
- Options C and D (coming down from the pass towards the peninsula) are better than RR (much less overgrown), in our opinion they should become RR. Access to option C when coming down from the pass is a bit overgrown, but then turns into a good trail.
- The steep downhill after Pass {38} [40.4/1225] (starting at -48.98290, -73.08804) was fine to do even in wet conditions.
- The Refuge (38} [47.0/397] (Refugio Militar Valle Piramide) was open and a very good place to wait in high winds. There seems to be a solar power setup that's disconnected but that could work if you plugged everything in.
- We did the loop in 5 rather relaxed (i.e. not too long) days.
- Generally speaking trails are surprisingly good on this section, especially on the peninsula thanks to the settlers Don Lucho and his son.
- Additional water points: S48.927130° W73.081616°, S48.959326° W73.114626°, S48.961134° W73.111681°, at and east of Pass {38} [40.4/1225].
* '''GPT38 / 2026-02-03 to 2026-02-07 / 5 days / SOBO / Anti Clockwise / Hiking / Variant A, RR, Opt 01, RR, Variant A / Alex and Aoife''’