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==Season 2025/26==
* <span style="background-color:aqua;">'''2025-12-24 / 1 Day / Packrafting / SOBO / RP / Michel, Lisa & Antoine'''</span>
Day 1
We continued directly from GPT24P, doing Option 2, i.e. crossing the lake arm diagonally to join RP. There was surprisingly no wind at all right at the bend and for the first ~2 km. Then the wind picked up again in westerly direction (coming from the west) and we started sailing. At the southward turn of the lake, wind increased a lot to ~40 km/h average and ~80-90 km/h gusts and turned to northerly wind (coming from the north) and pretty big waves (max 80 cm top to bottom, most 50-60 cm). One of them was so big that we had water pour over the front of our 2 person MRS Adventure X2 when going down the wave which was actually kinda scary. Overall we had our portion of adrenaline and at times we were scared of capsizing but nothing happened in the end. It was really exhausting though having to keep our boat aligned with the wind from the back. We didn't use our (makeshift tyvek groundsheet) sail since the winds were too strong. Meanwhile Antoine on his 1 person packraft (Kokopelli Rogue Lite) loved the surfing, with sail still on (sticks + jacket + IKEA bag attached to backpack at front), but constant attention required. We made it to the end of the lake where there are two campsites: Los Maitenes ([-42.89067, -71.61452]) and Las Rocas ([-42.88679, -71.60859]). The latter is much smaller, closer to the beach, has really nice and charming owners Miguel y Micaela, a nice hot shower, WiFi, is mostly solar powered and is 14'000 ARS per person and feels much more in the GPT spirit than the other, so we chose this one and spent two nice days of Christmas there. We got some additional food and drinks from their small store plus more from the shop in the other camping (fresh bread, gas canisters). The day after Christmas, they were extremely kind and took us all the way to Aldea Escolar in the morning so we could start the next section.
==Season 2024/25==
