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==Season 2024/25==
*'''9Jan2024 - 12jan2024 / hiking eastbound / RR + OH1 (Lago Espolon) / 4 days / Allie and Clara'''
From Chaiten hitchhike to El Amarillo (much cars, also a bus at 12am).
After El amarillo, long MR with almost no cars and many tabaños.
Termas El amarillo (hotsprings 88.0) are closed with workers on it, seems they are constructing camping/ cabañas.
We were lucky that some workers of one of the last puesto on the road proposed us a ride until the bridge at 70.3.
Then it's an ascent on MR more like a trail with really nice views on the valley and glaciar of volcan michinmahuida until puesto 67.0. Really nice settlers all along. They told us we could camp before Rio Michinmahuida and that the fords are easy for now.
We camped at -42,88746, -72,33896 just before the river. Very nice spot.
Ford Rio Michinmahuida 66.6 : large river but easy, up to knee even in afternoon.
Then good trail, well maintained and easy to follow until the puesto of Don Jaime at 58.0. He told us that he didn't see any hikers since 2020 but that people of the valley used to go through the pass regularly.
Ford 58.7 is not ford of Rio mallines but one of his affluent that is not on OSM. not more than mid calf, flowing slow.
After puesto of Don Jaime : navigation becomes more demanding ! There are multiple tracks and lots of cow paths going anywhere. Again trail sometimes going away from the gps tracks and going back on it. Slows us a lot.
Some small parts overgrown but there is always a good trail under it with recent horse steps.
Also marsh parts (even after dry weather).
Around this point -42,92803, -72,23085, the trail joined back the same river that is not on OSM. Then it crosses the river several times (around knee). It seems to have trails on the 2 sides of the river.
We camped in a really nice spot with views on montains around, just before the last ford of this river at -42,92678, -72,22347.
After, it's the ascent to the pass. Mostly trail easy to follow. Tracks are sometimes very precise, sometimes not. Better to follow fresh horse steps. Few short parts overgrown or with sleepery steep mud but mostly good.
Going down to the pass, less steep but marsh and several easy fords around mid calf. Need GPS as there are cow paths and lots of parallel trails and better to stay on the "principal one".
Around here -42,94528, -72,17471 there is a puesto, not written in gps, and then trail becomes easier to follow.
2 fords not written in the tracks (of the big river going to lago Espolon) -42,95105, -72,15224 and -42,96028, -72,15236. First one was fast flowing begining of afternoon, until mid thighs (I'm 1.57m). Second easy. After the second one it's easy dirt road. More and more settler along it until you arrive to a bus stop (-43,01878, -72,07040) in front of Milio house.
We met Milio that proposed us to camp on his lands. Had a lot of delicious frambuesas. We cooked and ate with him. He played guitar and sang for us.
At this last bus stop you can take a bus to Lago Espolon and then directly take the ferry. There are few cars of the settlers passing also.
After ferry, again a bus waiting to go to futaleufu.
Each bus is 800 CLP pp and ferry 500 CLP pp.
Water : good streams crossing almost all along. Even when going up to the pass there is a river but maybe will be dry later in summer.
==Season 2023/24==
