Paso de las Agachonas

Camp d’Agostini to Laguna Toro camp, where we will join the official Huemul Trek (17 km, 940 meters elevation gain).
We wake up after a long night and the weather is absolutely perfect. Unfortunately we notice that our stove does not screw on the gaz canister anymore: breakfast without coffee, but we decide to continue the hike (the weather is too beautiful for not) and hope that we can find nice people at camps agreeing to lend us their stove.
The first little challenge of the day comes after about 10 minutes walk in the form of a tyrolienne that we need to use to cross the Rio Blanco.
The hike then continues with a pretty steep gradient (about 700 meters elevation gain over 3.5 km) and slightly technical path to the Paso de las Agachonas. All the way up we can admire the three Adelas (Central, Norte and Sur) mountains with no cloud.
The way down is a lot of loose stones with no defined path and we are already happy for our GPS tracks.
Once in the valley it is hot and we stop for a cheeky plunge in a stream. We continue the last 5 km basically trying to name every country of every continent.
At camp we meet two nice Frenchies working in Columbia and we can use their stove to cook a hot meal (yay, only 2 more to go!).Leggi altro