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VFR - Fitz Roy Wild Trails
8 Days - 7 Nights
Intense trekking
October through March
Saturday
Group
2
Moderate
El Calafate
El Calafate
| Day | Itinerary |
|---|---|
| 1 | El Calafate airport – El Calafate |
| 2 | El Calafate – El Chaltén |
| 3 | Electric Valley and Pollone River |
| 4 | Laguna de los Tres |
| 5 | Cerro Torre – El Chalten |
| 6 | El Chalten – Loma del Pliegue Tumbado |
| 7 | El Calafate – Perito Moreno Glacier |
| 8 | El Calafate - El Calafate airport |
| Lodging | |
|---|---|
| x5 | Lodge |
| x2 | Full Camp |
This trek visits the northern area of Los Glaciares Nacional Park, visiting Fitz Roy massif, Cerro Torre group and surrounding area. Includes a spectacular walk to the summit of Pliegue Tumbado, possibly one of the best viewpoints in the area.
During this program, we utilize our Full camps to lodge inside the National Park.
You will walk an average of 6 to 7 hs a day, at a moderate pace with all the necessary stops.
No pass over 1500 mts above sea level in this program.
» Itinerary
(ID 6)
Day 1 El Calafate airport – El Calafate
We welcome you at El Calafate airport and transfer to town to check in at your accommodation. You get the rest of the day to enjoy the town and later you have your welcome dinner.
Lodging: Lodge
Provided meals: Dinner
(ID 96)
Day 2 El Calafate – El Chaltén
After breakfast we take our bus for the 220 km drive to El Chaltén, a small and picturesque village at the foot of Fitz Roy & Cerro Torre massif. We make a stop half way to enjoy local pastries and hot coffee. Once in Chaltén, we have the afternoon at leisure to explore the village.
Lodging: Lodge
Provided meals: Breakfast
(ID 97)
Day 3 Electric Valley and Pollone River
We star our trek with a long day walk.
We drive North for 18 km on the gravel route which goes up the valley of River de las Vueltas until we get to Rio Electrico.
Our goal today is to visit the Río Eléctrico valley up to the Pollone river, to get unusual and spectacular views of Fitz Roy massif north faces. This valley is also the access to the Patagonian Ice field. The walk takes us through an ancient southern beech forest and then across moraines, with some up and downs but little gain of altitude. After lunch we retrace our steps back to head trail. We then take the trail that leads up the River Blanco valley and to Fitz Roy basecamp.
We will walk today between 9 and 10 hs.
Lodging: Full Camp
Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch, Dinner
(ID 98)
Day 4 Laguna de los Tres
After breakfast, we hike along Fitz Roy trail up to Rio Blanco, climber’s basecamp to the east side of the mountain. From here a steep 1 h trail leads us to one of the most spectaculars viewpoints of the National Park: Laguna de los Tres, with its zephyr blue colour, lays at the foot of the massif, offering full close up views of Fitz Roy massif spires and glaciers. Each wall rises something from 600 to 1500 mts above the surrounding glaciers. Fitz Roy, with its 3405 mts above sea level, is considered the “King of Patagonia” and also considered one of the three most beautiful mountains on Earth (together with Alpamayo in Perú and K2 in the Karakoram). We hike back to our camp in the late afternoon.
Lodging: Full Camp
Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch
(ID 22)
Day 5 Cerro Torre – El Chalten
Today we walk south along Lagoons Madre and Hija Valley and down to Fitz Roy river valley, where we meet Cerro Torre trail. The trail runs along beech forest, bogs and shrubland and leads to Laguna Torre, enclosed by moraines and with Glacier Grande calving in its west side. It is usual to see icebergs pushed by the wind in the coast of the lagoon. The thin and elegant 3128 mts of Cerro Torre group and the Adela range in the background complete this spectacular view. In the afternoon we hike back to El Chalten along Cerro Torre trail.
Lodging: Lodge
Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch
(ID 99)
Day 6 El Chalten – Loma del Pliegue Tumbado
This mountain, 1500 mts tall, is located immediately south of Cerro Torre valley and offers some of the best views over the different group of mountains, glaciers and lakes that features the area. From the summit, you can get spectacular views of Fitz Roy, Torre and the spectacular glacier valley in between both. Also you get unusual sights of Paso del Viento and some of the mountains that stick out from the Patagonian Icefield. The lower part of the mountain is covered by shrubland and forest. The access to the summit is a long but gentle climb in scree. In the afternoon we return to El Chalten and we then drive back to El Calafate.
Lodging: Lodge
Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch
(ID 11)
Day 7 El Calafate – Perito Moreno Glacier
We dedicate this day to one of the World’s Natural Wonder: the Moreno glacier. This ice field- type glacier flows down from the Patagonian Icefield, a big sheet of ice that with its 22.000 square kilometers is the third largest glacier area in the world, after Antarctica (14 M sq km) and Greenland (1 M sq km). Because unusual favorable local conditions, this glacier is the only one in the world that shows a closure and rupture process. The road leads to the very front of the glacier, which will be only meters away from your eyes. The roar of the chunks of ice falling inside the glacier or from the glacier into the lake, the frequent collapse of the front seracs into the turquoise water, makes out of this day a very special and unique experience.
Lodging: Lodge
Provided meals: Breakfast
(ID 21)
Day 8 El Calafate - El Calafate airport
After breakfast we transfer to El Calafate airport where our services ends.
Lodging: None
Provided meals: Breakfast
» Services
| Lodging | |
|---|---|
| x5 | Lodge |
| x2 | Full Camp |
| Provided meals | |
|---|---|
| x7 | Breakfast |
| x4 | Box Lunch |
| x2 | Dinner |
| Transfers | |
|---|---|
| x | 4 |
| Excursions | |
|---|---|
| x | 4 |
| Days including Tour Leader | |
|---|---|
| x | 4 |
| Days including Guides | |
|---|---|
| x | 4 |
» Services detail
Included services
• Receptive service upon arrival.
• Mountain guide during trekking days
• Tents and general camping equipment (sleeping bags and thermal insulation mat are included)
• During the trip we combine private and regular buses.
Services not included
• Entrance fees to National Parks
• Medical and life insurance
• Tips
• Drinks and beverages (all foods are without alcoholic or non alcoholic drinks)
• Flights or airport taxes
• Optional excursions. The recommended optional activities match the timetable of our program
• Services not shown or detailed in the program.
Recommended gear
• Backpack of 60 to 70 lts
• Trekking shoes
• Thermal underwear
• Cotton t-shirt
• Trekking pants
• Fleece
• Softshell jacket
• Goretex parka
• Goretex overpants.
• Gaiters
• Gloves
• An extra pair of thin thermal gloves
• Thermal socks, a couple of pairs, thin and thick
• Trekking poles
• Balaclava
• Sun glasses with UV protection
• Sun screen (UV radiation is very strong)
• Flask or plastic water bottle
• Tape
• Hygiene items
• Lamp
• Personal medication
Notes
Camps
Full Camps are pitched up early in the season, so we find the camp ready upon arrival. It offers comfortable igloo type tents for each 2 passengers, with thermal insulation mats and sleeping bags. The camp also features a spacious dinning tent, a kitchen tent, tables, benches or chairs and a full set of table service and kitchenware.
Full Camps inside Los Glaciares National Park are in the wilderness, so toilettes and showers are not available. We provide hot water for personal cleaning and sanitary services are latrine type.
Full Camps inside Paine National Park are in campsites with sanitary services. You will have access to toilettes and showers.
Accommodation in refuges is in shared bedroom with other passengers in the refuge. Bathrooms are shared for all guests.
Porter service
Passengers need to carry their personal belongings they will need during the trek: jacket and gloves, spare cloth, head lamp, water bottle, camera, hygienic items, personal medication, a small towel, etc.
The luggage that you will not take with you in the first section of the trek stays at El Chaltén in our office. The luggage that you do not carry with you in the second section of the trek can be left at Las Torres and you will retrieve it back in Puerto Natales.
You will have to carry your personal belongings on Days 3 and 5.
When this intense trekking is run as a private group, under your own brand, we offer the possibility to hire a porter service. Each porter carries up to 8 kilos.
Is this Tour for me?
We qualify this tour as "Intense". This means that you need to be fit to enjoy it. No previous technical knowledge is required. The group will walk an average of 6 to 7 hours a day, may be 9 in some specific days, at a moderate pace and with all the necessary stops for water, snacks or rest. The trek includes up hills and down hills, some of them quite steady.
Note
The travel agency holds the right of changing the itinerary or cancel any of the activities when any natural cause (or any other cause of any type) justifies it in order to look after the group safety.
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