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==Season 2025/26==
* <span style="background-color:aqua;">'''2026-01-13 / 1 Day / Packrafting / SOBO / RP / Michel & Lisa'''</span>
A great section that leads through a beautiful, dry landscape interspersed with rock outcrops everywhere, towering cliffs and the towering mountains of the PN Cerro Castillo in the background . Highly recommended if you have the time! Especially on a calm day, since the wind can become really strong, cutting our day short. So ideally start early and/or pick a calm day.
We hiked from Villa Cerro Castillo to River In {33P} (2.0/293]. It's seems easier to follow the road right at [-46.12670, -72.15310] instead of left as indicated by the track files, since then you don't have to cross private land to get to OP-TL-V {33P-A} (2.1+0.6] to get to the river. But anyways, it's easy to get to the river. We started paddling at 9:00 under gray skies. There are some cool rapids just in the beginning where you get to a very narrow section of the river with large rock formations on both sides, really cool. Then it's easy paddling and the river generally had good flow. It's good advice to stick to the deeper parts of the river since it can get shallow quite quickly. We got stuck on sand once and had to push our boat out, sinking in in the sand up to the knees. The landscape surrounding the river is really beautiful. On a clear day you paddle with Cerro Castillo, Peñón and the other glacier clad mountains in your back and a dry landscape interspersed with imposing cliffs and rock formations in front. We came upon a massive group of geese who fled from us running up a rock and then jumping down into the water again which was both hilarious and amazing to watch. As we paddled, the tailwind continually increased. When we got to the point where you have to walk around the waterfall (River Out {33P} [22.1+0.4/275]) it was kind of annoying to pack the raft in the strong gusts. More annoying was the climb up through the sand and bushes to the MR though. In retrospect it seems easier to just take the ramp that's visible in the sand where you arrive and go through the sand in a pretty direct line until you reach the end of the MR (here [-46.25184, -72.00744]).
The walk on MR to River In {33P) [24.6/222] is easy and you just have to climb the (very) locked Gate (33P} (24.5/248], which is easy to do though.
We continued to paddle on the river from there at 15:10 and the wind and gusts had gotten stronger still. The continuing tailwind made the paddle faster but also less enjoyable and increasingly it felt a bit unsafe. When we arrived before the last bend of the river, the wind was so strong that we weren't sure if we could get around to the curve and so we decided to abandon the river and landed here: [-46.28490, -71.96502]. The big stone wall that was built to keep the river in check made for a good path to walk on back to the road. We hiked the last ~2.5 km to Puerto Ibáñez where we found a nice Hostel called Vientos del Sur [-46.29305, -71.93761], which we can recommend; 25000 CLP pp including a nice breakfast, clean amenities and a friendly owner.
==Season 2024/25==
==Resupply and Accommodation in nearby Towns==
==Resupply and Accommodation along the Route==
