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From Las Vegas, you can only do autosop, but only on weekends you can be lucky.
== Description of the route ==
[[FileArchivo: Profile_Cerro_PlataPerfil_Cerro_Plata.PNG | thumb | center | 750px | Profile of climb to Cerro Plata]]
=== Day 1: Mendoza - Piedra Grande ===
From the Vallecitos station (km 0 - 2959m), walk towards the southwest, until you cross a stream. Take the track that ascends along the main estuary of the stream. After 30 minutes you will reach an area of herbs called "Las Veguitas" (km 1.3 - 3230m).
=== Day 3: La Hoyada - Summit - La Hoyada ===
An extensive journey is undertaken, which ascends towards the "Lomas Amarillas-Plata" ridge (km 8.8 - 4910) marked at the "Portezuelo bajo" waypoint. Then we ascend with more slope towards the great amphitheater that ends in the pass that separates the Silver hill from Vallecitos hill (km 9.7 - 5210m). Already observed [[Mount Monte Aconcagua]]. Attention, although visually one already feels close to the summit at this point, there are still 3 or 4 hours of promotion.
There is a long and exhausting section that climbs in a zigzag along a slope that passes behind the so-called "false Silver". From that point, it continues to the somital edge. A few meters from the summit are the remains of a helicopter of the Mountain Rescue Brigade of the Argentine Air Force.
Once at the summit (km 13.1 - 5930m), there are numerous memories of the mountaineers who preceded us. From the summit, they dominate the aforementioned Aconcagua to the North and the [[Volcán Tupungato Volcano]] to the West.
===La Hoyada - Mendoza===
Same route back.
Cerro_Vallecitos.JPG | Cerro Vallecitos. November 2011
Cerro_Plata_ (92).JPG | [[Monte Aconcagua]] from the Cerro Plata
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