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Trekking Patagonia

Trek Fitz Roy-Paine

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Duration		Departures 2008-09		Season
13 Days 12 Nights		Each saturday from October to April Next Departures: 11/10, 18/10, 25/10, 01/11, 08/11, 15/11, 22/11, 29/11, 06/12, 13/12 Departure guaranteed - Private departures available.		Austral Spring-Summer.

Group size		Physical and technical level		Rates
from 2 to 15 people.		intermediate physical level. Moderate trekking.		- 970 Euros. - 1456 USD.

ITINERARY

Day 1
Reception at El Calafate Airport. Guides introduction and informative talk. Accommodation in a hostel or hotel.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner.

Day 2
After breakfast we will travel by bus to El Chalten, a little and colorful town next to Fitz Roy Mount. To arrive to El Chalten we will cross 190 km of gravel road through the Patagonia steppe and we will stop at La Leona, a picturesque inn to enjoy his homemade cakes. From here, the views on the Viedma Lake are superb.
When we arrive to the town, carrying only the necessary for this three days trip, in which we will lodge in a Full Camp. A beautiful trail next to ¨Las Vueltas¨ river will take us to the first panoramic views of the Mount Fitz Roy. From now on, we will be approaching to De los Patos Lagoon and finally we will arrive to our camp next to the Capri Lagoon. (3 hs approx.)
The Camp has been previously mounted, featuring spacious dome tents, used in double or single base. Each tent has sleeping bags, inner sheet and insulating mattresses. The camp has a large dining tent with table, benches, dishes and kitchenware. The sanitary services are provided with chemical bathrooms.
Accommodation in Full Camp at Capri Lagoon double o single base (rural area)
Meals Included: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.

Day 3
Early in the morning and carrying only your coat and the photo camera we overcome the Chorrillo Salt, always with the impressive glacier's needles in front of us. The first 2 hours are mainly flat, through forest and open glade and bog areas, with diverse bird life, lead us to Fitz Roy base camp. From here it is a 400 meters/1300 ft climb to the De los Tres lagoon on a steep trail that takes us around one hour and a half at gentle pace. This walk is one of the highlights in the National Park Los Glaciares; the views of Cerro Poincenot, Monte Fitz Roy and the other peaks surrounding these are splendid. We return to Capri Lagoon Full Camp. (5 hs approx)
Accomodation in Full Camp at Capri Lagoon double o single base (rural area)
Meals Included: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.

Day 4
Mount Torre
This morning we hike surrounding Capri Lagoon down by the trail to Madre e Hija Lagoons through a dense forest following the Fitz Roy River. We reach the Mount Torre Valley to glacier-fed Laguna Torre where Fitz Roy river begins. This lagoon contained between moraines, generally piles floes that come off of the Grande Glacier that falls in its west extreme. The impressive group of Mount Torre needles with its slender 3128 meters/10262 ft height, frame the landscape.
Accommodation in Full Camp at Torre Lagoon double o single base (rural area)
Meals Included: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.

Day 5
Torre Glacier and Lagoon – El Chalten
In the morning we walk the area near Torre Lagoon, with nice views of the Solo Mount and the Adela Glacier.
Optionally, you can choose to do a trek on the Torre Glacier, the Holiday On Ice Excursion. We put on our crampons (provided) and trek on the glacier’s surface and develop our ice climbing skills (harness and ice axes provided).
We return on the same trail to El Chaltén, where we will lodge that night.
Accommodation at Hostel Room with shared bathroom
Meals Included: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.

Day 6
In the morning you can opt to explore the town of El Chalten freely, with the possibility of visiting The Climbers Chapel; or the Matzen family country, one of the pioneering families in the area; the Del Desierto Lake located 45 Km out of town or to visit the Interpretive Center of National Parks. Around 5 pm we move toward El Calafate retracing the same road we did, arriving to El Calafate around 21 hs.
Accommodation at Hostel Room with shared bathroom.
Meals Included: breakfast.

Day 7
El Calafate – Perito Moreno Glacier
After breakfast we depart by bus to the Magallanes peninsula, where is located the entrance of The Glaciers National Park. Its centerpiece is the Perito Moreno Glacier, which, because of unusually favorable local conditions, is one of the world’s few advancing glaciers. Huge icebergs from the glacier wall collapse into the De los Tempanos Channel. The roar of the gigantic ice rocks falling and crashing into the waters of the channel is an unique experience.
Our bus will lead us just in front of the Glacier, allowing us to walk the gangplanks to view the Glacier from different viewpoints.
We return to El Calafate using a different route that we used to arrive.
Accommodation at Hostel Room with shared bathroom.
Meals Included: breakfast.

Day 8
El Calafate – Torres del Paine
We depart early in the morning (around 7 am) from El Calafate to Torres del Paine through a spectacular landscape of the Patagonia steppe. Choiques and flamingos are very common in this area. Almost 4 hours from starting our journey, we will be at the border crossing between Chile and Argentina called ¨Paso Cancha Carrera¨. We continue until reach the Torres del Paine National Park. UNESCO gave to this park the World Heritage status, due to its unique wildlife and magnificent scenery. We arrive to our camp at Camping Pehoe Full Camp after 6 hours of travel.
Afternoon, we will visit several panoramic viewpoints of the Nordenskjöld Lake and the “Cuernos del Paine” (Paine Horns), to finally arrive to the Camping Pehoe Full Camp. Duration of the journey: 6 hs approx.
Accommodation in Full Camp Camping Pehoe double or single base (area with sanitarium services)
Included meals: breakfast, box lunch, dinner.

Day 9
Las Torres – Ascensio River Valley
We dedicate this day to one of the most spectacular and classical trekking in the park: the Torres Trail. We transfer after breakfast by bus to the trail start at Las Torres area. We cross a suspended bridge and remount the slopes of the Almirante Nieto Mount, bordering the Ascencio River. After one hour ascending we go into the Valley, and reach Chileno Refuge. From there the trail leads us through the forest, in the middle of unforgettable landscapes, to Las Torres base camp. There the climbers wait good weather conditions to climb Las Torres. We trek one hour more to reach the Las Torres Viewpoint, an amazing natural amphitheater at the bottom of the vertical granite towers that reach 2800 meters height. We return by the same way. It’s a total 7-hour trek.
Accommodation in Full Camp Camping Pehoe double or single base (area with sanitarium services)
Included meals: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.

Day 10
Pehoe Lake Navigation, Del Frances Valley
Early in the morning we cross sailing 45 minutes the Pehoe Lake boarding at puerto Pudeto and arriving at the Pehoe Refuge area. We walk from there until get the Del Frances Valley. It’s a beautiful mountain valley descending from the middle of the massif toward the Nordenskjold Lake. Flanked by The Horns to the east and by the impressive Paine Grande (3050 meters/10006 ft) to the west. We ascend the valley until the upper viewpoints located in a natural amphitheater surrounded by some of needles and walls most wonderful of the massif: Cuernos, Espada, Mascara, Hoja, Aleta de Tiburon, Catedral, and Paine Grande. The forest and the suspended glaciers that cause continuous ice and snow fallings, give us a unique scenery to this walk. We descend the same trail and turn west rounding Skottberg Lake until arrive to our Camp for this night at Pehoe Refuge area. It’s a total 7-hour trek.
Accommodation in Full Camp Pehoe Refuge area double or single base (area with sanitarium services)

Day 11
Lake Grey trail leads across ridges from Pehoe Valley to Grey valley. This magnificent valley flows down some 60 km from the Patagonian Icefield, featuring the huge glacier calving down into the grey colored lake. Our trail skirts the lake, going up and down the westerns slopes of Paine Grande, offering some of the most impressive sights of the Park. From the high sections of the trail, many different viewpoints allow us to see the south end of the lake where the blue icebergs gather, the mountains rising far in the distance above glaciers Grey and Tyndall, and of course lake and glacier Grey. The trail reaches a close up point to the front of the glacier. We go back along the same trail, crossing bogs, shrublands and forests. In the evening we take the boat to cross lake Pehoe and then to our accommodation in Puerto Natales, a picturesque fishermen town located on the shores of the Ultima Esperanza (Last Hope) fiord.
Walking Time 8 hs. To the half-way viewpoints, a round way from our camp: 4 to 5 hs.
Lodging at a Hostel room with shared bathroom.
Alternative: Hosteria or Inn, double or single rooms with private bathroom.
Included meals: Breakfast, lunchbox.

Day 12
Puerto Natales – El Calafate
We leave early in the morning our camp, as our fellow travellers are going south in a long drive today and we are getting back to the border to reenter Argentina and drive back to El Calafate. Upon arrival to El Calafate you will be met by our local representative and transferred to you hostel. The rest of the day is at your own to visit town.
Lodging in a Hostel room with shared bathroom.
Alternative: Hosteria or Inn, double or single room with private bathroom.
Meals we provide: Breakfast.

Day 13
Transfer to the airport.
Included meals: Breakfast.

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