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==Season 2025/26==
''' GPT23/2026-01-18 to 2026-01-21/4 days/ SOBO/Variant A-RR-O7-O6-RR-variant E/Denis, Robert '''
We tried to get some information in Lago Puelo about Fires, but nobody could tell us anything. We slept in camping close to the back entrance to park (12 000 pesos). So we started with variant A, close to the reconnecting to RR was last water until Rio Epuyén. During the first day we smelled a strong smoke smell and all the valleys were weakly visible. At km 6 there is sign saying, Turn around, trail is closed due to maintenance. We kept going and there were some fallen trees and bushes so we proceeded slower and we lost the trail few times, but it wasn’t too bad, blue and white marking pretty often helped a lot( bush difficulty 3/5).
At camping Desemboque we got an advice to get to lago Cholila by Option07 and Option 06 to skip the fires on RR and to avoid fallen trees. It supposed to be visible trail for whole time. We didn’t pay any entry fees there.
Traverse of Lago Puelo is nice trail and we slept in camping El Turbio for free.
On day 2 we started with Option 07, but on 2,2 km we got off the GPX line because we followed nice trail instead. At S 42.258726° W 71.668491° there is junction, first we went to the left uphill, but at the very top when we supposed to go down, we lost the trail completely and we didn’t see signs of any trail going down only uphill. So we decide to get back to junction and go straight instead and it led us to GPX line on perfect trail. From here we followed some Track from Wikiloc (I really recommend it, because GPT track is not realistic, just straight lines). Then the trail was kind a fine, sometimes slightly overgrown (bush difficulty 1/5) until S 42.324736° W 71.682444°. Then the bushy part started until we got out of the Forest. (Bush difficulty 3/5).
We camped in the pass with beautiful view on Cerro Tres picos.
Day 3 started on meadows for 500 m but then we lost the trail completely, I believe there is no trail at all. We just kept going down easiest way but after 1 km it got extremely dense and slow (bush difficulty 4/5). From here S 42.365487° W 71.698956°, we decided to bail on navigation and we only wanted to stay in river, because it was the easiest way how to get down.
One more bushy part starting S 42.370382° W 71.694247° for 400 meters through burned trees. And then again in river. In total we forded the river 42 times until we got on great trail for last 5 km until we joined the road.
We have done 23 section on GPT and this was the most challenging part so far, because of intensity but mostly because of long duration of bushes and slow progress and difficult navigation. We planned to do option 7 and 6 in one day but it took us 2 days instead.
Because of fires we couldn’t get to section 24 so we finished in Town Cholila and we have to hike around the fires on road RP15 and RN15, to join the GPT again in Trevelin.
Attractiveness 3/5
Difficulty 6/5
