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Day 3: Trail was often not visible with the snow, also less signs and cairns than the other days. A few meters below the lake i found a campspot (at least for 3-4 tents: -54.951364, -67.76058) with very good shelter in the forest. I would recommend these instead of the spots next to the lake, but i didn't know this option last evening.
Descent from the lake to the road was more difficult than from Paso Virginia because it was muddy like hell. Maybe it was because of the bad weather. -54.94473, -67.732571 Here the trail splits up to left and right. Took the left trail suggested from the GPT-files. First part was nice and easy, later is was awful: a maze of mud and no trail nor signs. I guess the trail to the right is maybe better. Was relieved when i reached the road and got a hitch soon.
*'''23-nov to 28-nov 2024 / 5.5 days / Hiking & Packrafting / Hiking RR to Lago Windhond, Packrafting PR, Hiking Option 2A and 2, RR / Manon & Robin'''
Day 1: We started from the camping El Padrino at midday. We started by the Regular Route going directly South towards Lago Windhond. We hiked 13km this first day and stop nearby a small lake to put our tent before the weather was too bad - it was raining and started to snow...
Day 2: We finished the hike towards the south to reach Lago Windhond, with the objective to cross the lake with our packrafts ! We arrived quite late at the lake at 4PM, there was a bit of wind, but we started crossing with the idea to stop on the shore or on the island on the way. The weather forecats indicated not too much wind for the next day too. Finally we followed approximately the route indicated as RP and stopped on a very small island on the middle of the lake and slept there - incredible experience !
Day 3: we started packrafting early and followed the proposed PR track - diagonal across the lake. With the small wind, there were also a bit of waves, and following this diagonal route, at some point we were very far from every land - that felt quite exposed and we felt afraid of being so far from any shore, so we decided to go perpendicular to the east shore to finish our ride along this east shore. Much better feeling when we are only around 200m off the shore. We think a better Packrafting route, at least for ultralight packrafts as we have, would be to follow the eastern shore all the way. Even more because some locals told us there is a hiking trail following the eastern shore of the lake if needed. At the end of the crossing, we were very cold witht he cold weather and the cold water of the lake ! It took us time and energy to warm up. We then followed the hiking route EXP-RP-CC-A {67} [32.1+0.3] and EXP-RP-CC-A {67} [35.4+2.8] and we cross the river at EXP-RP-RI-2 {67} [32.4+0.1] (Rio Windhond) but there was a very high level of water at this point (even if no current)
Day 4:
==Season 2023/24==