Highlands of Cochamo Valley, 3 days - 2 nights.

Highlights:

We will travel across the beautiful Cochamó valley in 3 days walking 4 to 6 hours a days, only carrying 5kg on your back (day backpack), the rest of the equipment it will be carried by Load horses guided by ‘arrieros’ from the zone. We take care of all the details to prepare at the moment delightful and abundant food, in the middle of a nice bonfire in the open air.

The Cochamó valley is also called the Chilean ‘Yosemite’, it represents the north Patagonia with its enormous granitic walls which attract climbers from all over the world who are starting to explore the possibilities of new routes of trekking and climbing.

Get inside with us in the exuberant jungle from Valdivia which shelters the Cochamo Valley and travels across all the secrets of Las Juntas, EL traitor, Trinidad hill and El Arco. We will visit the old Alerce’s rodales, the second most long-lived tree in the world which can live 3.500 years and it can height even 50m., we will cross rivers using tirolesas and get inside the Territory of condors, foxes and pumas.

Details of the expedition:

• Walk assisted by horses
• 3 days /2 nights
• Camping: 2 nights
• Level of difficulty: medium, 5 to 6 hours of trekking per day
• Pack weight: 5 kg (day backpack)
• Luggage capacity: 70lts. Max + day backpack.
• Place: North Patagonia, Cochamó Valley
• Meeting point: established place in Puerto Varas
• End the trip: Puerto Varas
• Dates: From November to May
• Group size: 2 to 10 people as max.

Include:

• All meals from day 1 to day 3, including wine, appetizers and a board cheese.
• All land and water transportations
• 2 nights in a quality camping.
• All the camping equipment, tents for 2 people, mountain hardware, inflate mattresses therma rest, kitchen tent, awning, dry bags 60lts, dry bags for your camera
• Professional First aid kit, GPS, UHF Radios, handy, maps, aerial pictures.
• Bilingual Guide (Spanish-English) accredited by Wilderness First Response, guide of the national school mountain with wide experience in trekking and long trips.
• Local guide and leaded horses (one every 3 passengers)
• On stick barbeque and also vegetarian foods depending on the passenger.
• Book collections about the trips, which will help you to enrich the experience and increase your knowledge about the places.
• Conversations about minimal impact, land navigation, flora and fauna. The aim is to reinforce or to obtain basic knowledge about visiting wild areas and enjoying outdoor life.

Not included:

Accident or rescue insurance, personal equipment, clothes, tips or any other service not mentioned in this program.

Day by Day

• Day 1 Puerto Varas/ Las Juntas 5 hours/9 km/ 150 mts difference in height
  Today we will go to the town of Cochamó located in the Reloncavi estuary, the first Fiord of the Patagonia, where we will meet with the local guide (arriero). Here we meet and load our horses. Getting inside the valley of abundant vegetation and amazing views to granite walls, once in the Juntas we will rest and set up camp. With the ones who still have energy we will go around the Juntas Valley.
  
  
• Day 2 Las Juntas/ Trinidad hill base 6 hours/4 km/ 650 mts difference in height
  Today is a big day, when the sun rises we will be surrounded by granite mountains, we will cross the river with a tirolesa and after 3 hrs walking we will come to the beginning of Trinidad hill with his vertical walls, more than 1000mts of granite only, place of condors and climbers. After a nice lunch we will walk back to the Juntas.
  
  
• Day 3 Las Juntas/Puerto Varas 5 hours/9 km/ 150 mts descending
  We will have a good breakfast to start our trip back to Puerto Varas, we will walk for 9km back to the highway, but this time with the inclination on our side, where our private van will be waiting for us to take us back to Puerto Varas.
  

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