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==Season 2025/26==
* '''2026-02-18 to 2026-02-24 / 6 Days + 1 zero day / Hiking / SOBO / partial RR (O'Higgins to Bahía Pescado) / Michel & Lisa'''
General notes:
- There was no water at Camp {37H} [36.9/776], you have to bushwhack 170m towards the stream.
- Ferry to Candelario Mancilla: Ruedas de la Patagonia lets you cancel your reservation up to 2 days in advance of departure and reimburses the full price of the ticket. So it may be a good idea to book ahead if you know you're going to want to take the ferry around a certain date.
- Ruedas de la Patagonia can pick you up at Bahia Pescado without problems, it's the same price though. They'll also bring a packet for you if you want (e.g. food supplies or a packraft that's not of much use on the peninsula) at no extra cost.
- If you want to communicate with ruedas using an InReach, you'll have to use the MapShare feature as somehow their text responses don't seem to go through (i.e. they can receive your InReach message but if they reply to the text they get, they'll never arrive on the InReach, no clue why - at least that was the case for us and probably why Alex and Aoife never got a response from them)
- Hang your food, there are mice in some camp spots.
- The wind here doesn't seem to follow clear day/night cycles (i.e. calm nights and mornings, windy afternoons). We basically just always had wind and strong gusts. So if you're considering packrafting on the lake or crossing to Candelaria Mancilla you really need the right conditions.
Day 1
- We started late as we still had to do some groceries and drop off stuff at the ferry company
- Took a taxi to the end of the road (20'000 CLP)
- Hike through the forest is easy and trail well visible
- Up the pass was very windy and therefore cold, we were slightly hypothermic when we arrived up there. The path is pretty steep in parts.
- Continued to Camp {37H} [18.3/637], where there are lots of perfect, flat spots.
- The wind kept blowing through the night and gusts seemed very strong. We were worried about trees falling (potentially on our heads) and therefore didn't sleep well at all
Day 2
- We started kinda late after a very windy night that had us worried about trees falling onto our heads (there are many fallen trees around)
- Put on dry suits when we hit boggy section and kept them on through the fords and about 15 min into the trail along the lake which made progress much faster and convenient. It's actually surprisingly nice to walk in dry suits if it's rather cold.
- Walk along Laguna Verde was very beautiful, if windy. In the beginning we walked on trail, then switched back to the shore where it was easy going. It seemed we didn't have too high water levels, else it might have been more tedious with a more flooded shore
- Continued towards the west up the valley. We would've had to ford one more time here [-48.64486, -72.64465] but managed to circumvent that by doing some pretty tedious and boggy bushwhacking on the shore, getting our feet wet in the process. So you may be better off to just ford the river here.
- There is one more ford here [-48.64179, -72.67764] that you have to do, at least with the water levels we had. You might be able to hop across this one in fall when there's less water.
- All in all a beautiful day thanks to the landscape, even if we had intermittent rain. The last stretch up the valley was tough, especially the bushwhack and the last ford (not because it's difficult, just because it came unexpectedly and we were both already pretty tired).
- We wanted to camp at Camp (37H} [36.9/776] but there's no water there (it seems that a river dried up or changed course). So we bushwhacked 170m north to the stream where we found a nice campspot for bad weather camping (sheltered, next to the river, pretty flat) here: [-48.63968, -72.68518]. Generally I would recommend people to camp further down in the valley though because it's more open terrain so you get views of the landscape, here the forest is too dense to see anything.
Day 3
- Hiked up to the pass in a mix of clouds, sun and rain. There are some boggy sections where we got our feet a bit wet. The stream has to be crossed multiple times, not just at the two ford markers. Kind of annoying but the landscape makes up for it.
- After the pass it's a lot less soggy.
- When we hit the CC stretch (RR-CC-A {37H} [53.9/41.1+1.7]) we went a bit further down the hill and found a nice trail that helped a lot. At first it's slightly down hill from the track file and then it joins it. It disappears after about half way.
- We continued to Camp {37H} [62.2/262] (Arrollo Derrumbe) where there's good wind shelter and pretty flat spots.
- Hang your food here. We forgot and had chewing marks in some of our food bags in the morning.
Day 4
- Very scenic hike today along the coast in less overcast and rainy conditions than all the days before - nice! Still very windy though, big waves and white foam on the lake.
- Looking at the lake we were glad we didn't bring the packraft to cross the lake, it wouldn't have been feasible in these conditions, at least not in our open 2 person packraft and with our risk tolerance.
- We camped at Camp (37H} [64.1/377] where there's a wind sheltered spot in the trees for I'd say 2-3 tents. In windy conditions this is a good campsite. If you have nice, calm weather I'd go somewhere else since here you don't really see anything.
- It's worth it to continue on the path for 5 - 10 min to get beautiful views of the mountains.
Day 5
- We continued along the trail and made it to Bahía Pescado (Settler {37H-H} [4.5/264] (Bahia Pescado, Nicole and Misael)), where we searched for a spot to put our tent. The settlers were not there, so there was no starlink. It was difficult for us to find a wind sheltered spot for our tent, the wind seemed to change directions all the time and was rather strong. We chose to camp next to the hay stack which was okay
- Camp {37H} (66.5/343] (Vista Fitzroy) does have very nice views but other than that nothing special, not very sheltered, we took a long lunch break there and enjoyed the incredible views of Fitz Roy and Lago O'Higgins
- The views from Pass {37H} [68.1/492] are amazing as well
Day 6
- Due to high winds, the ferry that was supposed to pick us up from Bahia pescado couldn't leave that day and so we had to wait out another day in high winds which made it not very enjoyable. We wished that the settlers had been there, that would've probably made for a much nicer experience.
Day 7
- We got picked up by the ferry (Ruedas de la Patagonia) in Bahía Pescado at 9:45, 1h 45 later than they told us, and brought to Candelario Mancilla
* '''GPT37H / 2026-01-30 to 2026-02-01 / 3 Days + boat ride following morning / Western Traverse /SOBO / Hiking /RR, G, RR, H / Alex and Aoife.'''
