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Rio 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 remote and beautiful little stretch.
There was one tricky spot in the upper part of the river. At -46.13556, -72.15561 we stayed on the very left, going down between the rocks to avoid being pushed to the outside of the bend on the right, but the bend. The rest of the river was easy going.
The entire way the deep water channel is quite narrow and hard to see in the murky water. Follow the outsides of the meandering river to try and catch the mainstream most of the time, but you will still have occasional ground contact.
At the river-out point, stick to the turquoise waters to avoid the sandbanks and approach the MR. For the portage, we had decided not to deflate the packraft but it was a painful mistake for our big 2-seater. We got a bunch of micro holes from the thorny bushes which we only realised later when disinfecting our boat.