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==Season 2023/24==
* 24-Mar-09 to 2024-Mar-11 / 42 hours / Hiking / NOBO / GPT00?, GPT01, option 5? / Tomáš
Not sure if on topic as it is technically east of Santiago and not south (bit also not north!), but I thought I would share anyway. A nice trail that can be done around Santiago while waiting around. In my opinion, it also better fullfils "starting from Santiago on foot", as the current start involves quite a long stretch from Puente Alto on road. Here you start walking 100 m from bus stop (C-02, every ten minutes or so from Los Dominicos) integrated into Santiago's public transport system or 5 km from Los Domincos terminus of the red metro line (but really, why would you not take the bus?).
The entrance is 3500 CLP, in office hours. No problems having a backapack entering at 1300 when explaining the route (San Ramon to El Manzano). Early in the morning or late in the evening, there is an always-open door next to the gate. Going up to the ridge, there are several variants; I went to the pass just south of Morro las Papas and traversed more or less horizontally to Salto de Apoquindo. After Patagonia proper, it is funny that such a small waterfall even honours a name. There is a toilet at the waterfall and one could camp there, but it is probably illegal and when I was there, a helicopter kept humming around - maybe it was looking for fires? Late camp and early rise would work though. Past this point, you are unlikely to meet anyone (and I only met ten people even though it was Saturday). The trail from there to the ridge is more or less clear for GPT standards. Last probably reliable water is around 2230 m of altitude.
Camped at about 2800 in the pass south of Morro Tamber, the night was windless and warm. Starting late - at noon, I then went to Cerro San Ramon (up to here everything is on OSM). Took me 2 leisurely hours. The ridge walk is easy and the path is clear. To my surprise, I was there alone on a Sunday afternoon, just with one quite cheeky bird. I went ot Punta de Damas and back and then down to Las Manzanas. The path down from the Refuge San Ramones is marked in blue and mostly visible, just a section near the puesto at 2200 is cross-country. I reached the stream in the valley when darkness fell, walked two hours almost to the end of it to catch my flight, saw some people camping/having a fire. In the morning I got up at six and had to climb over two fences to get out. It has opening times (no longer remember which, but fairly long) and the price was about 8000 for entry, not sure if they would demand something in case of SOBO travers. There seems tobe some walk-arounds in OSM. The whole trail is in OSM now and also as of 2024 is part of "Not yet incorporated change proposals" of the GPT files, for viewing in Google Earth.
* 2024-Jan-15 to 2024-Jan-17/ 2.5 days / SOBO / RR / Matthias de Austria
