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2 houses of settlers on the way :
- Ruben at the begimmimg beginning of the Lago ChrstieChristie, always happy to have visitors and share a mate. - At the end of the Lago Allegre a little bit south east of west from the trail (a rivercrossing a bit strong to go to the caban, or a "bridge" called Bridge ?-4 on the GPSwaypoints, with 2 trunks, that we took in the morning to go back to the trail. A bit dangerous though, better to let Carmen show you how to cross): Ringo y Carmen, amazing persons too who let us plant the tent and permitted us to warm with a good mate, a meal and a wonderful smile, during the Christmas night.
'''2nd part : Rio Bravo and the pass'''
To stay on the east side, there is a little cross country by the forest, a little bit technical and slow but not dangerous, and you can camp at the laguna on the east side.
We (very badly ) passed by the normal way at the end of the day (really bad weather, really bad decisions !) and the rivercrossings (3 I think) were, for me, very dangerouswith strong current in profund water, but there was a lot of rain and wind, so I wont judge during good conditions. I was very angry at me though to not have listened to the locals and taken all those risks.
For the pass, not very difficult, but we had (again) very strong weather conditions and finished at the camp at the north side completely frozen. Know that it can be very exposed !
'''Last Part : Rio La Picota'''
After the camping : Two choices
- Following the normal road, made for horses. The rivercrossing is completely impossible, unless you want to join the fishes. Even for horses I don't understand how they do it. The Waypoint "DangerDangerous" totally make sense. - The GPS tracks : perfect to follow, and finished by a beautiful trail of cairns by the cliff ( the optionnal trail OH on GPS track), very safe. The river crossing this way is very safe, the river is very extremely large, separated and never go far from the ankle.
The rest we didn't have any technical difficulties. A trekk not to take lightly, and with much respect. Take advises to the locals before. Every one is happy to talk about it in Villa. They have the bad habbit to say that it's an easy way though !
(Little Hie to Lea and Kevin that we entountered on their way back to Villa. We did it !!!)
* GPT36H Regular Packrafting Route / Southern End: Laguna Clara to Villa O‘Higgins