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==Season 2025/26==
* <span style="background-color:aqua;">'''2025-12-11 to 2025-12-12 / 2 Days / Packrafting / SOBO / RP + RH / Michel & Lisa'''</span>
Day 1
We hitchhiked from the end of GPT17P to Puerto Fuy and got dropped off right at the ferry terminal. We had been unsure if we should do just the packrafting part of 18 or skip the section all together since there was a window of really bad rain forecast for the next 4-5 days after today. There was also considerable wind and gusts of up to 55 km/h forecast for the afternoon on the lake (northwesterly, so in the right direction). But when we saw the calm water and blue skies, we couldn't help it and really wanted to go. We decided to go as far as we could in one day and accept that we'd get wet the next day and simply take the ferry back to Puerto Fuy.
The resupply marked in Puerto Fuy didn't have a great selection but there are more, better shops on the road Río Pilmaiquén (about here [-39.87319, -71.89129] and close by). We put in where the track files suggested and it was fine, we were in the lake at 11:30 and it was still pretty calm. Nice paddling for a few hours, the wind gradually picked up as forecast and we tried our Tyvek groundsheet as a sail which worked nicely and made us sail at up to 6.5 km/h. We had lunch break at 14:00 at camp [11.4/622] which was super beautiful and sheltered from the wind which made us want to stay there over night, but the forecast made us continue. Around 15:30 we had reached the long N-S arm of the lake (starting right where the private hot springs (13.9+0.5/607] (Not permanently staffed)) are. There the wind and especially the gusts (the forecast 50 - 55 km/h seemed about right) intensified to a level that felt a bit unsafe to us, so we stopped here: [-39.945079, -71.758877] at around 15:30. We waited for the wind to decrease, which was the case at around 16:15 so we continued sailing. The west coast of the lake is really pretty on this arm of the lake and we enjoyed watching our surroundings here a lot. The wind kept blowing until it shut down at about 18:00, which was the same on Lago Neltume the day before.
We arrived at the end of RP at around 19:00 and set up camp, went for a swim and packed the packraft, planning to hike back to Puerto Pirehueico the next day. You could easily camp close by at the marked camp and walk along the coast to the end of RP as well. Here there is a makeshift table and a bit of trash lying around, but not much. Found a fishing hook on the table, so be careful with your things here.
Day 2
Woke up to rain, but not quite as terrible as expected. Packed up and continued on RH-MR towards Pirehueico. Easy walking on the MR which we lost once and had to climb a fence and find back to it, not sure we made a mistake there or if it's the actually intended route as we also somehow lost GPS signal. But we made it to the PR and walked the last km to the ferry. Got our tickets and went back over the lake that we had paddled down the other day in such different weather. We were glad we didn't do it in this weather, although it would probably still have been possible without issues, just colder and more miserable.
*'''2025-08-21: Track file update 2025 and investigation suggestions of Jan Dudeck'''
