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* 28.02. - 05.03.23 / Anna & Christopher / SOBO, Chile Chico - Cochrane
We started in Chile Chico around 5 pm walking the first km on the road* 01. After a while we got a ride 27.2024 / 5 days / Hiking / SoBo / RR + Option 8 to the Bahía Jara cross and camped a few hundred meters further near the street (we carried water from Chile Chico).Murta / Milton Cea + 4 more
The ascent Considering that we would venture to make this route a journey from Villa Cerro Castillo to the plateau Bahía Murta, we have decided to pay Pedro Zuleta, who is mostly easy dirtroad walking and dedicated to transportation in the last CC part easy surrounding areas (+56 9 9357 8668), to take us to navigate. The whole stretch on the plateau until entrance of the street route at km 41the registration booth.5 There, we had extreme wind, which made walking super tiring and nearly blew us away encountered a few times. We found a tiny and steep, but wind protected place pair of muleteers who did not pay much attention to set up our tent at around km 28 in the ridge dug by the river. We had passing, however, we spoke with them to get a bit inventive to set it up ask for their permission and to be able to sleep properly there. There were almost no other places that were protected by inquire about the wind until you get off condition of the plateaupath. As almost all previous entries say, it's better to camp off the plateau. But it's really worth doing it because you can see Guanacos and flamingos on it :)
When we reached We started with the street at km 41.5 we were lucky and regular route, a car passed by a few minutes laterbit late, which brought us to the entrance of Parque Patagonia. We payed 15k CLP p.p. and walked to for that reason, we camped the camp Raleigh first night at Lago verde. There are some sheltered places to set up the tentMallín Grande, with an unfamiliar amount of people for which is a very good option, as watching the GPT. Lago Verde is sunrise in this beautiful thoughplace is worthwhile.
The Starting early the next day involves lots of river- , we reached the "Los puestos" sector and stream crossings and it started to rain not particularly heavyfrom there, leaving our camp set up, but after some hours we were completely wetheaded towards the towers. Therefore We were only able to reach the rivercrossing first lagoon at km 82.6 was really hard for Anna (1the base of the massif,63 m) but as we managed by inertlocking our arms went a bit late and doing it step by step slowlyour conversation with some other hikers we met extended. After that I would recommend leaving early to take advantage of the trails get really good and you can walk way faster.We camped at views from the unofficial camp site at km 84.7portezuelo lookout.
We had good weather the The next day and we began the crossing through the "Río Resbalón" Valley, as the locals call it, following an animal trail was really good until Lago Gutierrez. Up that sometimes tends to get lost among new vegetation or fallen trees, accompanied by other hikers who decided to join the pass journey.It is a part of the trail gets route that can be slightly complex if you do not have a bit worse with some navigation issuesgood reading of the surroundings, but finding the animal traffic trail, and considering that you always find navigate through a good path againforest that can easily disorient. This changes when you already walk with the "Resbalin/Resbalón" river to your right, as it is quite useful to follow its course. Always on the left side of the river.As On the others wrote way, there are only some tiny streams within fallen trees and abandoned muleteer posts that can be used as camping space if necessary, although I would not recommend camping in this old forest.Upon reaching the first km after point of the pass until road collapse, the next Lagunacrossing of the scree can be done at the level of its arrival, so we filled but to continue the route, you must climb a few meters up our bottles there the mountain until you find the entrance to the continuation of the route. This point took some time from us, and camped somewhere we decided to camp near the river, towards the rock beach in the middle of a young forest soon afterwards once with a mossy floor, very comfortable and restorative. We also decided to place some pircas at this point, as there was no mark to help resume the path towards Murta, since the difference in height was noticeable and it started can be easy to rain againbelieve that the path continues by the river side, but no, from here the path separates from the river and goes up the mountain.
The next day there were still not too much water sources and Finally, after this last abandoned stretch, where the vegetation is abundant in some parts, we fetched the first water ended up arriving at the first Laguna which wasn't super easy Puesto de Los Agüeros and decided to access. The trail until Lago Cochrane wasn't in bad condition neither. We also took Option Lspend a night there, which follows as we were very tired from constantly finding the route. It'regulars worth mentioning that we couldn' siete lagunas trail. The stretch from Lago Cochrane until the Conaf office at the end of the lake is absolutely amazing with great views of one of the clearest lakes in the world. We camped at km 145.7 and took t find a bath in GPS track before the laketrip.
The last 8 km next day, after a night of intense rain, we took the official route traced from "Bahía Murta" at opossite direction and arrived in the town at dusk.If you want the track and the Waypoints of the journey, feel free to Cochrane write to me at '''milton.1902@gmail.com''' =) * 2023-Mar-30 to 2023-Mar-31 / 1.5 days / Hiking / SOBO / RR + Option 1 / Martin & Helena We started from Villa Cerro Castillo around 11 AM and took ferry from the port the next day at noon. The former RR trail follows path of Sendero de Chile, and starting with no expectations we were quite impressed with what it offers, especially all the amazing views of Cerro Castillo. It's definitely a good short alternative to the Torres del Avellano detour that we were forced to skip. Trail is easy to follow and you can find many camp spots along the way. There are many small shops in Puerto Ibáñez. Knowing the ferry schedule we went super directly to the port where were just a few others in this time of the year. Contact: @martin_hanzelka @helenneka * 20.02. - 24.02.23 / Anna & Christopher / SOBO, Villa Cerro Castillo - Puerto Ibáñez In the afternoon we started hitchhiking the Carretera Austral to where Option 3B starts. There were lots of people trying to hitchhike directly from Villa Cerro Castillo, so we figuered to have a better chance if we walk further up the Carretera Austral. We soon got lucky. That day we walked the dirtroad until km 4.4 and camped there next to a small stream. The next day was mostly easy walking on dirtroads until the crossing at km 45.5 (which is relatively easy to miss!). We camped at km 49 at the edge of the forest. The next day the weather turned bad once we reached the section with all the boulders on the ascent to the pass. We did some unnecessary climbing by not sticking to the main route. When descending we lost the main route again and briefly tried to descend without it, which we soon realised is a bad idea, so we climbed back up to where we lost it.We spent the night at the camp at km 63.4. The next morning we woke up with a clear blue sky and finally saw the Torres del Avellano. Really amazing rock formations.The following bushbashing part seemed ok to us, we had worse ones on the GPT so far ;). First we walked on to the right of the river following a good animal path. Once it ended we changed to the left side and stayed there.About 2/3 of the route is a realtively good path and the rest was some easy BB and climbing over fallen trees.Luckily the ford at km 69.8 was easy to cross.We took variant E from where on the trail was in a great condition and we could walk pretty fast . The river crossing at km 81.1 was more demanding and went almost up to Annas hips (1,63m). We camped soon after that at approx. km 81.5. We continued on an variant H the easy trail on the dirtroad until Conaf the lake, where it gets more demanding (we underestimated the continous ups and 4 downs). The views are amazing though. It gets pretty windy next to the lake. We camped at a tiny spot at km road walking 109.3 next to a small stream. On the town, so happily final day we could escape from walked to the starting rainbus station (6 pm) and took the ferry to Chile Chico the same day (8 pm). This section was great :)
* 26/02/2023 - 02/03/2023 / RR SOBO with emergency exit on a boat on Lago General Carrera / Louis, Rémi & Noé :
We hitchhiked from km 136 to Puerto Ibanez. During the weekend there is only one ferry a day (Saturday morning and Sunday evening).
* Feb 12 Direct Route SOBO 1 day Frank
I walked straight from Villa Cerro Castillo to Puerto Ibanez in one long day. A few KM out on a dirt road there is a museum on your left & a short trail on the right which goes to some rock paintings. You pass by a lake with good views of Cerro Castillo. Salto Rio Ibanez waterfall is impressive.
*Helen and Craig + (Caro and Ali)
