GPT25H (Aldea Escolar)

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Season 2022/23

• General Information :

The Regular Route is best hiked from November to April. Hiking in either a northbound or southbound direction is feasible and recommended. The section is 40km long and takes about a day and a half to complete. Due to the ocasional overgrown state of the trail, bush bashing is required in several places and progress is a bit slow in many other places. However, the trail has been passable throughout. There are panoramic views, and an openness not common in adjacent sections. There are also a few kms of interesting bamboo forest.

• 2023-Mar-05 / SOBO / RR + 25H-F and 25H-01 / 1.5 days / Martin & Helena

We followed RR for the first 10kms until the barbed wire fence. It was well marked and maintained. We spent the night before settler waypoint at around km 8, there are many good campspots around this part with nice view of the mountains and lake, but no water, that is actually after the settlement. At around km 10 we jumped on the main road to save some time as the trail seemed to become a little less visible and with barbed wire fences in front of us. Later we continued with the F option to connect back to RR.

Once back on the RR, we were not sure which way to take next, bc recent report stated that bush-bashing is involved on the RR. We decided to go with the shorter, but suspiciously straight Option 1. It is nice MR in the beginning, later leading into the forest where you follow a clear trail. It kind of disappears after reaching the river, where you have 2 options. It seemed like the trail continues with the western option but we soon run into a very thorny bush field with some barbed wires on the ground which made us to look for a different way. We tried to go around without success bc of dense bamboo, so we got back to try the other, a little shorter C option. It turned out to be pure bush bashing without any trail to follow, full of fallen trees and dense bush. Very slow pace. After around 2 hrs we connected back to the RR trail that is marked with little color flags. We have seen them from different directions so there might be some path to follow, that would avoid that long BB. After you reach the MR, there is a settler waypoint, that is now a refugio, but we didn’t check. The way down is without problem. Couple of small shops in Aldea Escolar. We asked for cabana in the first one we met and were lucky.

Contact: @martin_hanzelka @helenneka

• 2022 Nov 13-14 Frank SOBO

As rivers were running high & the route was officially closed I went around it on the road. 1 day Villa Futalaufquen-Trevelen then 2 hours to Aldea Escolar. The Information centre at Villa Futalaufquen said the trail is closed, no one has hiked there in 2 years & there are a lot of fallen trees across the trail.

Season 2019/20

• 2020-Jan-15-16 / Shaun / Regular hiking route southbound

The southbound start of this section is now open and so there is no need to initially re-route along the road. The trail is overgrown in a number of places which slows progress. But the only tricky piece was a few kms around km14 where the trail disappeared several times under bushes or fallen bamboo for a little while. But it always reappeared exactly where the gps projected. There were lovely views in many places along the section, especially early on where the past fire damage allows you to see a ring of mountains in every direction.

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GPT25H: Aldea Escolar

GPT25H: Aldea Escolar				Hiking		Packrafting
Group	E: Lagos Argentinos		Total	39.4 km	11 h	61.4 km	17 h
Region	Argentina: Chubut		Trails (TL)	15.7 km	39.8%	15.6 km	25.3%
Start	Villa Futalaufquen, Lago Kruger Lodge		Minor Roads (MR)	23.7 km	60.2%	23.9 km	38.9%
Finish	Aldea Escolar		Primary Roads (PR)	-	-	-	-
Status	Published & Verified		Cross-Country (CC)	-	-	0.1 km	0.2%
Traversable	Nov - Apr (Maybe: Sep, Oct, May)		Bush-Bashing (BB)	-	-	-	-
Packraft	Only Burden		Ferry (FY)	-	-	-	-
Connects to	GPT24H, GPT24P, GPT25P, GPT26, GPT70		Investigation (I)	-	-	-	-
Options	89 km (2 Options & Variants)		Exploration (EXP)	-	-	-	-
	Hiking	Packrafting		Total on Water		21.8 km	35.5%
Attraction	1 (of 5)	1 (of 5)		River (RI)		-	-
Difficulty	3 (of 5)	3 (of 5)		Lake (LK)		21.8 km	35.5%
Direction	Both ↓↑	Both ↓↑		Fjord (FJ)		-	-
Comment	-
Character	Forest, Farmland, Settlers
Challenges	Bush Bashing

Elevation Profile of Regular Hiking Route (2019)