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==Season 2025/26==
*'''2025-08-09: Track file update 2025 and investigation suggestions of Jan Dudeck'''
- Updated GPT05 Regular Route: The updated regular route now follows the upper Rio Colorado and avoids the demanding Cuesta Las Perdices where some hikers struggled. The updated regular route also eliminates the need to cross the bridge of Rio Colorado that get disassembled in autumn and reassembled in late spring or early summer. The updated regular route seems also more attractive with plenty of camp sites and two hot springs. Fording Rio Colorado high up seams feasible during most of the hiking season.
- New GPT05 Variant B and Option 3 (Paso El Campanario): Fording Rio Negro is often very challenging and dangerous especially in spring and summer. Based on accounts from locals the route Paso El Campanario was used to move animals until about 2 decades ago. This route crosses Rio Negro higher up in a sediment area where fording should be somewhat easier. The 1000 m ascent to Paso El Campanario looks demanding but not impossible on satellite images.
- It is unclear how tolerant Argentine border police treats hikers that sneak through Argentine territory east of vulcano Planchon-Peteroa. There is a special arrangement between Chile and Argentina that permits the Chilean arrieros of Valle Grande to cross at Paso Vergara by car from Chile to Argentina and drive 15 or 20 km though Argentina before re-entering Chile at an informal border crossing just north of Valle Grande. But I'm unsure if this applies also to "lost hikers". Anyway, in case of an emergency crossing into Argentina from Valle Grande is probably an option. In this case "lost hikers" are probably returned via Paso Vergara to Chile. Also, climbers from Chile and Argentina get from both sides of the border up to the summit of Volcano Planchon and there seams little dispute over this. Trails crossing the border are clearly visible on satellite images.
==Season 2024/25==