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==Season 2024/25==
*'''2025-MAR-23 to 2025-MAR-25 / 2 days / Hiking / Clockwise / RR / Ivan, Jakub, Daniel'''
A beautiful, challenging, and heavily trafficked section that follows the famous Huemul Circuit. The breathtaking views of Glaciar Viedma are deeply imprinted in our minds. We chose to go clockwise, which is the opposite direction of most hikers and against the official recommendation of the national park authorities. However, we found several advantages to this approach:
1. Gradual ascent for most of the route, and where the trail is very steep, you go uphill instead of downhill.
2. The approach to Huemul Pass {40} [38.5/1028] (Huemul) is simply breathtaking from this direction.
3. You don’t pass the entrance gate at the park information center.
Challenges:
If hiking clockwise, the main challenge is hiking against the wind between 24.0 - 38.5 km. Another major difficulty is river crossings. There are two challenging crossings:
• [18.9/676] (Tyrolean Traverse)
• [54.0/285] (Tyrolean Traverse)
Both crossings have ziplines, which allow you to cross with dry feet if you bring or rent the necessary climbing harness. Since we didn’t rent any special gear, we had to ford the rivers.
• [54.0/285] can be safely forded at Ford {40} [54.1+0.4/259], but we missed this option and ended up wading directly below the zipline—it was quite wild (waist-deep, I’m 178 cm tall). We highly recommend taking the small detour to the marked ford in the track files, where the river splits, making the crossing much easier.
• [18.9/676] has a gorge below the zipline, but the river can be easily forded (knee-deep) above it or even more safely below it at Ford {40} [18.2+0.3/664].
Fees:
Since we hiked clockwise, we did not pass the park entrance gate. On our last day, we walked past the ticket checkpoint/gate at 7 p.m., but there was no one there.
Bivouacking:
Camping is only allowed at the officially designated campsites:
1. [16.6/745] (Camp Toro)
2. [21.2/860] (Rio Tunel)
3. [27.9/925] (Paso del Viento, Attention: Mice!)
4. [41.3+0.2/286] (Camp Bahía de los Témpanos)
Water:
Not an issue—streams and rivers are encountered frequently along the route.
Resupply:
El Chaltén is a super tourist trap—very expensive, with limited selection, but resupply is possible. We bought food for 2.5 days.
We used a combination of:
• Lo des Lourdes Supermarket (-49.3254052, -72.8916425)
• Supermercado Chaltén (-49.3307613, -72.8857952) → in our opinion, the best stocked option.
Gas cartriges are sold in almost every outdoor shop.
'''2025-Feb-25 to 2025-Feb-27/ 3/ Hiking/ Counterclockwise/ Timothée and Maëlle '''
