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==Season 2025/26==
*'''2025-08-09: Track file update 2025 and investigation suggestions of Jan Dudeck'''
- New GPT06 Option 6 (Entrada San Carlos): The right-of-way conflicts and entry restrictions made me look for other options. This new option provides a possible alternative entry route that is reasonable well visible on satellite images but so far not verified and recorded. Access by bus should be relatively easy as the trail head is lower down in the valley where bus frequency is higher. I suggest a northbound investigation somewhen in December to more easily return if the access at San Carlos is denied. the first mandatory river crossing is rather high up in sedimented areas where fording should not be utterly difficult. It's probably also a quite attractive route.
- GPT06 Option 3 (Cumbre Descabezado Grande): This group of high routes include tracks that avoid getting close to the puesto of Don Victor where permit requirements apply. Especially hikers that consider climbing to the summit of Descabezado Grande may simply stay in an altitude between 2500 m and 3100 m to avoid contact with Don Victor. Remaining snow early in the season may make these high routes difficult and unsafe before January.
- Eastern routes of GPT05 and GPT06: A demanding but very attractive option is combining GPT05 and GPT06 in one long hike. Combining both sections and taking the remote optional routes east of Descabezado Grande avoids all right-of-way conflicts but the terrain is demanding and the river crossings on section GPT05 must not be underestimated. to avoid the river crossings of GPT05 someone may hike these eastern routes in northbound direction and exit on the Regular Route of GPT06 at Parque Ingles.
- New GPT05 Option 9 (Rio Colorado Bajo): The upper Rio Colorado provides large pastures where countless cows and horses feet each summer. It is not entirely clear to me on which routes these animals are driven up to their pastures at the beginning of the season. The new Option 9 (Rio Colorado Bajo) documents two suspected routes. Older satellite images show two bridges that were destroyed somewhen in 2023 and it remains unclear to me which of these bridges were rebuild. Fording these large rivers seams not feasible especially early in the season. Anyway, in season 2024/2025 lots of animals were up in the valley so I suspect that at least one of these two bridges was rebuild. It would be brilliant if someone asks local residents which bridges were rebuild and investigates these routes. Once verified, one of the two routes might become the new Regular Route of GPT06 that avoids the entry restrictions of the National Parks (Parque Ingles, Vilches Alto). Also, walking up the valley of Rio Colorado is very attractive and two hot springs add to pleasure of this route.
==Season 2024/25==