===Long Distance Trails===
====Huella Andina====
To The Huella Andina is a long distance trail on the Argentine side of the Patagonian Andes with a combined total length of 564 km. May but not all of the 42 day stages are connect with each other forming continuous sections of up to 166 km length. There remain 3 larger and several smaller gaps making this an uncontentious long distance trail. Here you find a [[http://huellaandina.desarrolloturistico.gov.ar/mapa overview map of the Huella Andina]]. The Huella Andina is a mostly signposted and marked hiking trail and substantially less demanding when compared with the Greater Patagonian Trail. The Huella Andina was developed considering that hiking novices may hike this trail. Therefore neither optimal equipment nor plenty of hiking experience are a precondition to take this route. The Huella Andina provides a resupply point at least on every second day. A GPS is not required to follow this trail. The project was initiated by Estefania Chereguini and Walter Oszust in 2008. During their leadership of the project most stages were selected and marked. Read the Spanish article [[http://www.senderodechile.cl/opiniones/huella-andina-un-sueno-de-caminos-y-horizontes-patagonicos-hecho-realidad/ Huella Andina: Un sueño de caminos y horizontes patagónicos hecho realidad]] for more information to this ambitious trail project. Unfortunately when the ministry of tourism took control of the project it came practically to a halt. At this time no initiative is visible to close the remaining gaps and transform the Huella Andina in a continuous long distance trail. The Huella Andina and the Greater Patagonian Trail join each other at the shore of the Lago Puelo at the end of section 16 of the GPT. The Hiking-Only-Options of the Greater Patagonian Trail follow on Sections 17 and 18 to large degree the Huella Andina. Most of these Hiking-Only-Options are not recorded by GPS but since the Huella Andina is marked trail route-finding should be issuedrather easy. If the development of the Huella Andina is continued than both trails; the Huella Andina and the Greater Patagonian Trail may form the basis of the trail network in the Patagonian Andes that offer multiple hiking options from rather easy trail suitable for beginners to quite challenging routes for self-reliant hiking experts.
====Sendero de Chile====
