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==Season 2024/25==
''' 2025-FEB- 13 to FEB 17 / 4 days / Hiking / SOBO / RR & Optional / Emilie and Henry'''
Day 1: I slept close to the park ranger station the day prior, camping on the side of the road, a little bit hidden close to a stream to be able to get an early start. I disclosed my plans to go to trapa trapa to conaf and after filling out a paper and showing my day pass bought online I started on the road. A few kms in a car stopped next to me with someone asking me if I was the Canadian that registered to go to trapa trapa, I said yes; a fellow Canadian GPT hiker! I hopped in the Uber he took to the trail head with him and we decided to hike together. Henry (that’s his name) and I decided to start the hike together, and see if our rhythm matched and asses if we would continue. We hiked all day and camped at (S 37.458403° O 71.346766°).
Day 2: Henry wanted to hike to volcan antuco summit, which I had considered but discarded because I didn’t want to do it alone, but I was keen on doing it together. It took us 12 hours total, with 2x 20 mins break uphill and a 30 min break on the summit. We got back at camp around 8:30pm as the sun was setting. We took the track / footway that starts at (S 37.460320° O 71.313438° ) The hike up is long, especially after the first plateau, a lot of scrambling and a few 100ms on snowy ice which we did without ice gear but should not be attempted alone as it is relatively steep and dangerous. We went very slowly and we made it to the top. We admitted to each other that this was not the safest way we could’ve done this and went equally as slow to go down. Crampons would’ve helped A LOT. We came down via Oh-cc-a 09-01 (0.0+4.3) and camped at the same spot as the night before, where we had left our tents.
Day 3 : we continued passed the Refugio/military base and stayed on Ruta Q-45 hoping to get picked up (Which eventually happened) and driven until (S 37.526480° O 71.244377°) where we went back on the RR. We slept at (S 37.599160° O 71.243858°) near a puesto. We asked permission to the family on site to sleep next to the rio near them and they accepted. They were so so kind and we chatted and asked if we could buy some eggs and flour from them, and they proceeded to give us a bag with 8 eggs, flour, a tuna can and cookies. We paid them but they refused, shoving the money back into our bags. The next morning we wrote them a note with a drawing, heart-fully thanking them again . In retrospect we wish we had put money in the letter because they didn’t open it until we walked away, and next time that’s what we’ll do.
Day 4: after leaving the puesto we finished walking to trapa trapa, where we went to the store (S 37.712410° O 71.256369° ) to buy a few snacks and a ramen and hiked back a km or two to camp at (S 37.710964° O 71.249438°). We ended up being on private property (our mistake) and were confronted by the owner but he didn’t mind at all. We had a small fire going and he said something along the lines of “it’s to cold for such a small fire” and proceeded to throw a huge bundle of wood on. So all in all a good hearted exchange.
The next day we continued on gpt 10, together!
* ''' 2025-FEB-19 > 21 / 3 days / Hiking / SOBO / RR & Optional / Arno'''
