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* 2024-Jan- 14 to 2024-Jan-16/ 3 days/hiking/SOBO/ 33h/ 33h-b/33hRio Ibáñez was a moderately fast flowing and enjoyable ride. A welcomed change of scenery, we paddled down reddish-brown canyons with the glacier view of Cerro Castillo behind us. It was a/ 33h-P/Paulinaremote and beautiful little stretch.

At first, I wanted to do RR, but as the recent reports about the river crossing where not very encouraging, I decided to play it safelty, so I just mixed some sections. I started There was one tricky spot in Villa Cerro Castillo, till X 33h [ 5.5/554] it was a very peaceful, nice trail, with beautiful views on Cerra Castillo. There were some fence crossing, but not very annoying. After the intersection, so once I joined the road X-725, it was less interesting, walk on a gravel road. I think this upper part of RR is better to hitch-hike ( it's possible and not very difficult to catch a car on this way). Once I reached the big lakes ( beautiful views!) and some wanderful camping spots [ S 46river.17790 W 072.32049] between Lago Alto and Lago Lapparet, I took 33hAt -b46. At the beginning the trail was l crossing a forest used by locals as wood supply13556, but later ( around the place where it joined 33h-a), the landscape was amazing! Especially the part with lakes and settlers72.  The last section was 15561 we stayed on 33h-01A. The cannion of Rio Claro and later the waterfall are beautifulvery left, but for some hikers a long distance on gravel road on this section can be annoying so it's probably better going down between the rocks to hitch-hike ( not a lot of cars but still possible). I bought my ticket for ferry from Puerto Ibanez avoid being pushed to Chile Chico without any problem 1h30 before the ferry departureoutside of the right bend.  The mix rest of these 4 sections + hitch-hiking it's a good option for bad weather or high the river level on RR. Some parts are very beautiful, and the less interesting parts ( long distances on gravel roads) it's possible to cover by carwas easy going.