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==Season 2025/26==
*'''GPT36 // 2025 Dec 3-5 // NOBO // 3 days // hiking // Bailey and Ohad'''
Challenges - fallen trees across the trail. Long road walking if you don't organize transport or can't get a hitch
Difficulty - 4/5
Attractiveness - 5/5
Note - you briefly cross into Argentina and back into Chile but there's no one here or any infrastructure
Day 1
We were given a number from El mosco, (+56 9 7751 7721) Christan, who drove us from villa O'Higgins to the end of the road. It cost 40,000 CLP per person, a bit expensive but no one really drives out here, so a hitch would've been difficult. We didn't regret paying because of our weather window.
The first day was a lot of up and down but easy to follow trail
Camp 1
We camped at camp [110.9/500] which was beautiful and protected from the wind by the lake
Day 2
We walked through the forest most of the day, heaps of fallen trees to navigate. The river valley was easy hiking. The fords were not an issue but incredibly cloudy and muddy from the rain
Camp 2
We camped at camp [79.9/876] which was a bit lumpy but we found a couple of flat spots. There's mice here.
Day 3
The hike up to pass was gradual and beautiful. There was a bit of fresh snow at the pass but not too bad. We actually overshot the pass but after assessing the topographic map we found our way
There was an incredibly bad section of fallen trees (photo shown).
If going NOBO, kilometer 58.3 km (SOBO) take the trail heading east, with a few fords heading to the puesto. The trail was nice and clear of dead fall. I'll upload a photo from ohads gps in the comments. Can't say much about the condition of RR, but we tried briefly and there were heaps of fallen trees
We were lucky to have a hitch from the start of the road into Cochrane from a local
We stayed at Hostal Ana Luz 15,000 CLP per person for two beds in one room
Ohad will upload our trip report of GPT37
==Season 2024/25==
I really enjoyed the ride on the rio baker. Technically it was not difficult but indeed it’s a mighty stream and you will observe big boils from time to time. Due to the high speed its easy to make 50 km or more per day. The first rapid {36P} [41.8/77] can be run on the right side in the main current but watch out for strong whirlpools after. I portaged rapido {36P} [56.9/70] ‘gonzalez’. It might be not impossible and the line is quite obvious and straight, but the consequences if not sticking to the line could be severe. Jan is right mentioning losing your boat there is a catastrophe. There is a good camp spot in the woods at the begin of the portage. I think the third rapid Jan mentioned is at Settler {36H-03} [6.8/63]. I found that rather easy and went on the left side. El Salton must be portaged of course. Massive forces here. The portage trail has nice campsites, too. I found a nice camping spot at one of the small islands at S 47° 40.282’ W 073° 06.376’ with lot of ripe calafate berry and even some of the first strawberries. Most of the bigger islands have cattle. There is one last rapid at S 47° 46.027’ W 073° 17.559’ called rapido borquez. It can be easily run on the right side. I left the river at the airport an toked Variant G to the beautiful town of Caleta Tortel.
==Season 20222021/2322== * <span style="background-color:aqua;">'''2022-Feb / Packrafting / Mikhail Bogdanov&Masha Ovchinnikova'''</span> See for https://web.facebook.com/groups/222224388283455/posts/1319249015247648/
==Season 2019/20==
Carretera Austral to Villa O’Higgins: Once you hit the Carretera Austral consider to backtrack to the refuge at the ferry landing point Rio Bravo. There you may sleep sheltered and it is the best point to hitchhike or catch a bus towards Villa O’Higgins. Diehard Thru-Hikers need to get prepared for 60 to 70 km of road walking. The regular packrafting route of this section becomes attractive again at Rio Colorado about 30 km before Villa O’Higgins.
For Rio Colorado to Villa O’Higgins see post: mhttps://www.facebook.com/storygroups/222224388283455/posts/graphql_permalink538542493318308/?graphql_id=UzpfSTY3ODk3MzQ4OTpWSzo1Mzg1NDI0OTMzMTgzMDg%3D
* <span style="background-color:aqua;">'''2019-Dec-27 / 1 day (40km) / Regular Packrafting Route / SOBO from Tortel to Rio Bravo via Canal Montalva and Fiordo Mitchell / Meylin Ubilla & Jan Dudeck'''</span>
After packrafting Rio Baker from Cochrane to Tortel last season we verified now the continuation from Tortel to Rio Bravo in the fjords.
For Rio Baker see: mhttps://www.facebook.com/storygroups/222224388283455/permalink/graphql_permalink533705217135369/?graphql_id=UzpfSTY3ODk3MzQ4OTpWSzo1MzM3MDUyMTcxMzUzNjk%3D
We timed our travel to Tortel to arrive just before a series of low-wind day. The yr.no page predicted wind between 1 and 3 m/s during the entire next day which is exceptionally calm for this region (we had actually gusts of wind exceeding 10 m/s). We left Tortel paddling at sunrise to use the normally calmer morning to advance as much as possible and to cross in particular the most wind exposed area called by locals “quatro viento” as early as possible. “Quatro viento” means “four winds” and refers to a 2 km wide area where 4 fjords join and where often strong wind and high waves make paddling with a small raft unsafe.
To continue towards Villa O’Higgins I recommend hitchhiking or taking a bus. Diehard Thru-Hikers need to get prepared for 60 to 70 km of road walking. The regular packrafting route of this section becomes attractive again at Rio Colorado.
This packrafting route should only be attempted on two consecutive calm days. Don’t plan to complete the entire fjord route in one day. This is only feasible if the afternoon remains reasonable calm.