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==Suitable Section Combinations==
GPT33H connects with the adjacent sections GT32 and GT34H at suitable resupply locations (Villa Cerro Castillo and Puerto Ingeniero Ibañez). This makes a section combination without resupplying irrelevant.
===GPT35 with GPT33H===
Northbound hikers may consider connecting GPT35 directly with GPT33H by exiting Parque Patagonia towards Fachinal (Option XY of GPT35) and crossing Lago General Carrera by motorboat from Muelle Fachinal to the Desembocadura Rio Avellano (Option XY of GPT35). Here Lago General Carrera is only 3.5 km wide and a motorboat crossing should not take more than 20 minutes. Unfortunately, in summer this might require some patience as the normally strong wind often impedes this. In the early morning or the late evening the wind occasionally calms down but rarely during daytime. One settler in Fachinal owns a motorboat and might offer this service.
This section combination of GPT35 with GPT33H seems more practical in northbound direction as hikers can first talk directly to the settler with the motorboat in Fachinal and resupply in Chile Chico before crossing Lago General Carrera (by taking a motorized transport from Fachinal to Chile Chico and back). There are nice wind protected camp sites on the shore of Lago General Carrera to wait for the wind to calm down.
Thanks to a reasonably good mobile phone coverage in Fachinal hikers can check the weather and wind forecast and call also the settler with the motorboat. This permits hikers to plan or discard a motor boat crossing of Lago General Carrera when arriving in Fachinal.
Hikers that attempt a more complicated a southbound crossing of Lago General Carrera should make arrangements with the settler with the motorboat at least one or two weeks before arriving at Puerto Avellano, agree on the pick-up location (Puerto Avellano or Desembocadura Rio Avellano) test communication devices (i.e. InReach to mobile phone) and carry enough food to wait some time in Puerto Avellano. Hikers should be prepared that the wind might calm down while waiting several days in Puerto Avellano and cancel the motorboat transfer and walk out to Puerto Ingeniero Ibañez before the food reserves deplete.
==Section Attractiveness==
==Section Difficulty==