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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 There was one tricky spot in the recent reports about upper part of the river crossing where not very encouraging, I decided to play it safelty, so I just mixed some sections. I started 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 XAt -725, it was less interesting, walk on a gravel road. I think this 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 46.17790 W 072.32049] between Lago Alto and Lago Lapparet13556, I took 33h-b72. At 15561 we stayed on the beginning the trail was l crossing a forest used by locals as wood supplyvery left, but later ( around going down between the place where it joined 33h-a), rocks to avoid being pushed to the landscape was amazing! Especially outside of the part with lakes and settlers.  The last section was bend on 33h-01A. The cannion of Rio Claro and later the waterfall are beautifulright, but for some hikers a long distance on gravel road on this section can be annoying so it's probably better to hitch-hike ( not a lot the rest of cars but still possible). I bought my ticket for ferry from Puerto Ibanez to Chile Chico without any problem 1h30 before the ferry departure.  The mix of these 4 sections + hitch-hiking it's a good option for bad weather or high 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.