GPT33P (Rio Ibanez)

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Season 2017/18

• Route description by Kara Davis after Season 2017/18:

Walk out of Villa Cerro Castillo along a dirt road to the put-in for Río Ibañez located at a rocky beach. At the time of our hike, there was construction going on in this area so don’t be surprised if the put-in changes. The river is wide, slow moving, and at lower flows there are many sandbars hidden just below the surface that will beach even packrafts. After about 20.5 km, packrafters must take out to portage around a Class V+ waterfall at a sandy beach surrounded by steep gravel slopes. The portage is a short cross-country route through farmland which ends at a gate. Just past the gate is Highway X-735. The put-in for the second part of the Río Ibañez float is at a sandy beach. This section of the river to Puerto Ingeniero Ibañez is also very slow moving. Strong winds may make packrafting impractical.

Town: Puerto Ingeniero Ibañez Puerto Ingeniero Ibañez is a small town with a few food options and a small grocery store. The docks for the ferry to Chile Chico across Lago General Carrera is located on the southeast edge of town.

Transport to and from Route

• The Regular Route of GPT33H was developed for hiking and a packraft is neither needed nor recommended even if a packraft may be deployed in northbound and southbound direction.

Most packrafters that travel southbound will probably opt for section GPT33P to float on the lower Rio Ibañez from Villa Cerro Castillo to Puerto Ingeniero Ibañez. This packrafting route has a water proportion of 80%. In comparison, on GPT33H the water proportion is in best case 20%. But this water proportion can only be archived on an exceptionally calm day when wind permits packrafting all the way from Puerto Avellano to Levicán along the shore of Lago General Carrera. On most summer days strong wind and resulting high waves will impede packrafting.

But for packrafters that travel northbound GPT33H provides an interesting option. These packrafters might attempt to cross Lago General Carrera from Fachinal to Puerto Avellano either with a motorboat or by packraft, then hike the very attractive centerpiece of GPT33H past the Torres de Avellano and conclude this section by packrafting the final 21 km (Rio Sin Nombre, Laguna Verde and the upper Rio Ibañez) to finish in Villa Cerro Castillo. For more information to this option see the section description of GPT34P and the comment to the section combination GPT33H with GPT32.

• Combining GPT33H with GPT32

If hiking GPT33H with a packraft northbound than the packraft can be inflated at the bridge over Rio Sin Nombre to paddle 2 km downstream on this river, cross the 1 km wide Laguna Verde on its western shore and continue to the upper Rio Ibañez to float down 18 km on the upper Rio Ibañez towards Villa Cerro Castillo. From the last recommended exit on the upper Rio Ibañez it is only a 3 km walk into Villa Cerro Castillo. This route combines GPT33H Option 3 with GPT33H Option 8 and GPT32 Option 6.

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Retired Section Article GPT33P - Río Ibañez

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GPT33P: Río Ibañez

GPT33P: Río Ibañez				Hiking		Packrafting
Group	H: Aysen Sur		Total	-	-	34.3 km	7 h
Region	Chile: Aysén (XI)		Trails (TL)	-	-	-	-
Start	Villa Cerro Castillo		Minor Roads (MR)	-	-	2.3 km	6.6%
Finish	Puerto Ingeniero Ibañez (Puerto)		Primary Roads (PR)	-	-	2.4 km	7.0%
Status	Published & Verified		Cross-Country (CC)	-	-	1.9 km	5.4%
Traversable	Sep - May		Bush-Bashing (BB)	-	-	-	-
Packraft	Required		Ferry (FY)	-	-	-	-
Connects to	GPT32, GPT33H, GPT34H, GPT34P		Investigation (I)	-	-	-	-
Options	8 km (Variants Only)		Exploration (EXP)	-	-	-	-
	Hiking	Packrafting		Total on Water		27.8 km	80.9%
Attraction	-	4 (of 5)		River (RI)		27.8 km	80.9%
Difficulty	-	3 (of 5)		Lake (LK)		-	-
Direction	None	Only ↓		Fjord (FJ)		-	-
Comment	Hiking: Hiking not feasible
Character	Farmland, Settlers, River Packrafting
Challenges	-

Elevation Profile of Regular Packrafting Route

Elevation Profile of Regular Hiking Route (2019)