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Don Victor is the large landowner in the area. His hut is the refuge at 45.5/1887. Hikers used to be welcome on his land, but after they left a lot of rubbish behind and invaded his hut, he no longer allows them and sends them back. However, he (sometimes?) makes exceptions for foreigners. You could ask him for permission via whatsapp, but he was so flooded with requests that he can no longer be contacted during the season. I just took a chance and went to his land. A rider soon asked me what I was doing here, I asked him if he was Don Victor, to which he replied in the affirmative. I then introduced myself, said what my destination was, where I came from and that I was aware of the problem of dirty hikers, but that I was very careful with nature. He then allowed me to continue. I met him twice more in the following days, at Refuge 45.5/1887 and at Water 48.1/1837, and he reminded me not to throw away any rubbish.
At the refuge I met a Chilean-German couple camping, they came from Los Cipreses and didn't know that it was forbidden to enter the country, but Don Victor allowed them to stay after they argued with German cleanliness (luckily I guess he had never been hiking in the Alps before the regular cleaning teams cleaned everything, otherwise his trust in the Europeans would probably not be so great).
Fordings: All very easy, path at Laguna del Caracol is no longer under water. No snowfields to cross. The water level of the lagunas (except Manantial Pelado) is dropping rapidly, I estimate about 10 to 15cm per day.
