Laguna de los Tres

This is the most popular hike in el Chaltén, leading to the base of the Fitzroy mountain. It’s a 24km to-and-back trail through quite amazing and varying nature. We left el Chaltén early in the morning to avoid the crowds, and especially when we made our way back to el Chaltén, we were very happy we did so: The last steep stretch up to the viewpoint was CRAWLING with people!
The whole hike took us nearly 6 hours and was the most challenging one in el Chaltén - but only due to the last 200 (or so) very steep meters where we had to gain roughly half of the total altitude gain of 950 m 😄 For a change, we were blessed by beautiful weather this time and had the full amazing view on the Fitzroy in front and above us - what a majestic mountain! And another benefit of up going early was that we were able to see the fox which most certainly lives around the viewpoint and has very certainly discovered that tourists are a great source of easy (but certainly not very fox-suitable) food (🤬 tourists). It is so used to people that it was just chilling around a meter away from a group of young french guys and allowing everyone to take superb pictures of it - until more people started to show up and it left.
Our conclusion: Even though without the fox and very touristy, definitely a must-do hike in el Chaltén! :)Read more