Cambios

| The last part of section 9 follows a little used dirt road from Curarrehue to Puesco AltoBajo. While the current regular route is not unpleasent to walk it might also not be the best choise for hiking. Therefore two alternative options are proposed but not investigated and verified yet. The more promising option is the alternative to the volcano Quetrupillan via Fundo Huililco (see below) but also this option might be worth to be invesitigated. <br> <br> The proposed alternative to Pueso via Cerro Las Painetas crosses a rather steep mountainous area covered by Araucaria forest. It remains unclear if a trail exists that connects Huincapalihue with the valley east of Cerro Las Painetas. On a proper trail this might be an attractive hike through an impressive forest but without a maintained trail this area is nearly impassable. The on satellite images not visible trail section is either 2 km or 4 km long but in dense vegetation this may take a full day of tiresome struggle. <br> <br> If someone whishes to investigate this option he should ask the local residents for trails and possibly hire a local guide for a few hours.

| The last part of section 9 follows a little used dirt road from Curarrehue to Puesco AltoBajo. While the current regular route is not unpleasent to walk it might also not be the best choise for hiking. Therefore two alternative options are proposed but not investigated and verfied yet.The more promising option is this alternative to the volcano Quetrupillan via Fundo Huililco and '''more attractive for hiking''' than the current regular route. <br> <br> This proposed route follows after Curarrehue for 2 km the paved road before it takes the dirt road to Puela Bajo and Hulilco. Satellite images and wikiloc tracks suggest two possible options. GPT10-TR7A-IV is little travel dirt road all the way up to the base of the volcano Quetrupillan passing the fundo Huililco. GPT10-TR7B-IV seems more atractive for hiking if there is a continious trail through the forest. On satellite images a 2 km section is completely covered by forest and the suspected trail can not be clearly identified. <br> <br> Once this track is verified and recorded by GPS it will probably be incorporated in the regular route and replacing the dirt road and pave road via Puesco Bajo.

| - Moderate| -My favorite hot springs on the Cordon Caulle were deeply covered by lava during the recent eruption in 2011. A recently published wikiloc track provides a 7 km long trail to other attractive '''hot springs''' on this volcanic plateau. This 14 km side track (including return) is recommended for hikers with some extra time spare or to site out a bad weather day.