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*'' 'Trekking''': The right best time for trekking is between October and May. Ideal in , Ideally November and December , however you may not be able to reach the mirador of the glacier due to large amounts of snow hanging arond in October and November. *'' 'RandonnéeSki touring''': Between June and late September. Even then, depending this depends on how the year winters gone and when the last snowfall, it was. It may well be necessary to load the skis along the first installment.

{{Access Baños Morales}} bifuración You should On the road from San Jose de Maipo take that a right, cross where the road forks. The road then crosses the river and then climb climbs a rough bumpy but short climb road to the village. Once there is parking (the parking of buses is a good place) and walk to CONAF, located west of On approaching the village, across take the estuaryleft fork which crosses back acroos the river and up to a car park surrounded by stalls offering various products and services for tourists.

From CONAF, the route climbs steeply for about 45 minutes. The trail then enters the valley, crossing several times joining an old vehicular road that zigzagsupwards. After about an hour, once the path has traced the climbed this initial lip of moraine, the valley narrows and appear you come to Panimávida Waters, a plain with wells number of mineral waterwells. Thereafter, the slope gradient decreases, and the path continues northwardsup the valley, with the impressive south face of purple Morado as a backdrop. After about two 1-2 hours from mineral water, is reached of easy flat walking you will reach Laguna de Morales (often mistakenly called "Purple Lagoon.Laguna Morado" For this gaplaguna, see [[Glaciar del Morado]]). It's This makes a nice destinationpicturesque end point, but it is advisable to continue another hour northmore, approaching the base of the glacier San Francisco. The trail is somewhat less clear, the slope increases and is you are more likely to find snow patches in this way when going in November or between October and December.

At a normal pace, this trek should take about 3-4 hours between CONAF and the viewpoint of the glacier(the orginal article said 4 but this seems an overestimate). However, what is meant by "viewpoint" is not a defining point, but rather an area. It is a total of 16km there and back with 600m of acsent.

* This trek required Entrance to pay the entrance to the Monumento Nacional El Morado Natural Monument. This amounts to is $ 1,500 per person (CONFIRMED THIS VALUE).

* To climb the Mirador del Morado, the south face of Mount San Francisco or the difficult south face of PurpleMorado, we recommend looking Andeshandbook at the respective routesin the Andeshandbook: