Cambios

- Ruben at the begimmimg beginning of the Lago ChrstieChristie, always happy to have visitors and share a mate. - At the end of the Lago Allegre a little bit south east of west from the trail (a rivercrossing a bit strong to go to the caban, or a "bridge" called Bridge ?-4 on the GPSwaypoints, with 2 trunks, that we took in the morning to go back to the trail. A bit dangerous though, better to let Carmen show you how to cross): Ringo y Carmen, amazing persons too who let us plant the tent and permitted us to warm with a good mate, a meal and a wonderful smile, during the Christmas night.

TWe We thought that the worst was behind but we had more strong weather conditions in this part. A few advises : - For for the rivercrossings of the Rio Bravo : I would advise NOT to follow the GPS tracks or that follow the normal trail on GPS devices, (that are is made normally for horses). All the locals (local guides in villa o higgins, Ruben, Carmen and Ringo) were agreed with following and told us all to follow the east side of the Rio until UNTIL the Laguna. The crossing here is very safe, the rio not strong nor profund at all, and you have to cross it ONLY ONCE, instead of 4 or 5 (dont remember). To stay on the east side, there is a little cross country by the forest, a little bit technical and slow but not dangerous, and you can camp at the laguna on the east side. We saw some cairns in the forest too, on the last hill before the laguna, so the locals indeed use this way.We (very badly) abandonned this plan and passed by the normal way at just near the end camping site west from the river before the Laguna (really bad weather, really bad decisions !) and the rivercrossings (3 I think) were, for me, very dangerouswith strong current in profund water, but there was a lot of rain and wind, so I wont judge during good conditions. We were frozen when we arrived at the camping site. I was very angry at me though to not have listened to the locals and taken all those risks.

For the pass, not very difficult, but we had (again) very strong weather conditions with even snow, and finished at the camp at the north side completely frozen. Know that it can be very exposed !

- Following the normal road, made for horses. The rivercrossing is completely impossible, unless you want to join the fishes. Even for horses I don't understand how they do it. The Waypoint "DangerDangerous" totally make sense. - The GPS tracks : perfect to follow, and finished by a beautiful trail of cairns by the cliff ( the optionnal trail OH on GPS track), very safe. The river crossing this way is very safe, the river is very extremely large, separated and never go far from the ankle.