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==Season 2024/25==
*2024 Dec 10th to Dec 11th / 2 hiking days / SOBO / Hiking / RR / Michael and Kasia
Quick notes: We were surprised at how pretty the section was. The valley is really beautiful and there is a lot of visual texture in the hills. However unlike 28H, this is a real road walk on a dusty gravel road, often without a shoulder and with traffic. We were there in early December and maybe 25 cars a day passed us. It is possible in the January/February season that much more traffic could be going along this road which would make the route much less pleasant.
CAMP
Night 01: -44.67970, -71.95016 (relatively flat, good water access, a little ways from the road)
WATER
There is infrequent access to the river as most of the road is high above it, and where it gets close the access is often fenced off. We still found water fairly frequently as the were a lot of little streams coming down the hill. Also many of the bridges provided access to tributaries and esteros.
Day 01 - Dec 10th
At Bridge 12.2, it looked like if you crossed the bridge and went left there was a dirt road on the other side. We did not go over to investigate, but we kept looking over as we went along. It seemed to go on for some time. It might be worth investigating. However it looked like if you did go that route you would have to ford the river at some point.
At around km 16.6, below the road is a green, grassy field with some trees. There is an old road grade down to the field. The road down is very steep, but there were some good potential camp sites down there and easy river access.
At Bridge 18.4 there were paths down to the river on both sides and areas that looked campable. No visual screening and no wind protection, but if it's a late camp it could be a good spot.
We camped near Bridge 25.6 on the south side of the bridge back near the trees. We found a relatively flat area, and it had great water access. It is also a place that other people camp, there was a fire circle on the higher ground. It was set back from the road a bit, but there was no visual screening from the road. There were a lot of mosquitos.
Day 02 - Dec 11th
We continued on the road. The views were very nice, lots of color from all the spring flowers, purple lupines, yellow broom, and some red flower that is everywhere right now. The road is a true Chilean road, with long stretches lined with fencing on either side. Also in some areas the road is somewhat narrow and there is no shoulder. Many of the cars slowed as they passed us to minimize the dust, but it was a dry, sunny day so it was still fairly dusty. Mosquitos were around, not bad when walking but pretty unbearable when we stopped. Around 15:30 the bus passed. At first the driver said he didn't have enough space, but then he said he could take us to Amengual. In Amengual he said to wait for him and if he had space he would take us to Villa Manihuales, which he did (there were three or four other open seats). We paid 3.000 each for the ride.
==Season 2023/24==