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Day 1     El Calafate airport – El Calafate

We welcome you at Calafate airport and transfer to town to check in at your hostel. By 7 pm the group meets in the lobby of the Hostel del Glaciar Pioneros, street Pioneros 251, El Calafate, to meet your guide, discuss details of your program and enjoy your welcome dinner together with your fellow travellers.

Lodging in a Hostel room with private bathroom.

Meals we provide: Dinner

Day 2      El Calafate - El Chaltén

After breakfast, we take our bus to El Chaltén, 220 km to get to this picturesque village at the foot of Fitz Roy. Stop over on road for coffee and home made cakes. While we approach, we get spectacular views of Viedma lake and glacier, and Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre groups.

Lodging in a Hostel room with shared bathroom.

Meals we provide: Breakfast

Day 3      Piedra del Fraile

Today we start our trek in the National Park. We go in a short drive to the Electrico river bridge and a gentle hike inside a beautiful southern beech forest to get to Piedra del Fraile. From Piedra del Fraile, we hike on to the viewpoints of Fitz Roy north face and Pollone glacier and the viewpoints of Marconi Glacier, entrance to the Patagonian Ice field. We hike back to our Full Camp in Piedra del Fraile.

Lodging in Full Camp at Piedra del Fraile in double tent (rural area)

Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch and dinner.

Day 4      Río Blanco, Laguna De los Tres

Today we retrace our steps to the Rio Blanco valley, which we hike upriver to visit the Piedras Blancas glacier and lagoon. Further on, we get to Rio Blanco (Fitz Roy base camp for climbers in the east walls of the group) and we hike up to Laguna de los Tres, viewpoint of Fitz Roy and probably one of the most spectaculars locations in the National Park. WE hike down to Rio Blanco and to Laguna Capri.

Lodging in Full Camp at Laguna Capri in double tent (rural area)

Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch and dinner.

Day 5      Cerro Torre

Today we make it around Laguna Capri to get to the Lagoons Madre and Hija Valley and down to Fitz Roy river valley, where we meet Cerro Torre trail and we get to Cerro Torre Full Camp. The trail runs along beech forest, bogs and shrub land. From the camp, a short hike takes us to Laguna Torre, enclosed by moraines and with the 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. Walking time 3 to 4 hs.

Lodging at Cerro Torre Full Camp in double tent (rural area)

Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch, dinner.

Day 6      Cerro Torre glacier trek

This day is a highlight of the trip. We provide crampons, harnesses, and we set out to hike in the cerro Torre glacier. We cross river Fitz Roy river through a tyrolean (horizontal fixed rope attached to both sides of the river). We walk on the moraine around the lagoon and then down to the glacier visiting crevices, ice caves and holes and all the interesting places that a glacier can show. The bonus is the close up views of Cerro Torre group spires. We hike back to our camp in the afternoon.

Lodging at Cerro Torre Full Camp in double tent (rural area)

Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch, dinner.

Day 7      Pliegue Tumbado, Laguna Toro

We again cross the tyrolean but now to hike up to Paso de las Agachonas, a 1300 mts pass on top of Pliegue Tumbado, which divides the Cerro Torre valley from the River Tunel valley. Full views on Fitz Roy, Cerro Torre and the glacier valley in between the two mountains. From the pass we hike down to Laguna Toro.

Lodging at Laguna Toro Full Camp in double tent (rural area)

Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch, dinner.

Day 8      Paso del Viento

A full day hike from Laguna Toro to Paso del Viento (1500 mts above sea level) and back, across moraines, glacier and alpine meadows, to get to a spectacular view of the Patagonian Ice field, including the Mariano Moreno Range and many other mountains rarely seen by men. The hike is demanding, with a day pack, 9 hs round trip from Laguna Toro, to climb 800 mts from our camp to the Pass.

Lodging at Laguna Toro Full Camp in double tent (rural area)

Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch, dinner.

Day 9      Río Túnel, El Chaltén

We follow a trail along the River Tunel valley and up Pliegue Tumbado. On the ridge, we get again splendid views of most of the mountains and lakes of the area. Gentle downhill to El Chaltén.

Lodging in a Hostel room with shared bathroom.

Meals we provide: Breakfast and box lunch.

Day 10    El Chaltén – El Calafate

Morning at your own in El Chaltén, to relax after the trek and visit the town. By 5 pm we take our bus back to El Calafate.

Lodging in a Hostel room with private bathroom.

Meals we provide: Breakfast

Day 11    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 Ice field, and big sheet of ice that with its 22.000 square kilometres is the third largest glacier area in the world, after Antarctica (14 M sq km) and Greenland (1 M sq km). Because unusual favourable 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. A beautiful, short trail, will lead us from the shores of the lake to the upper viewpoints. 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. We will drive 80 km (1 and a half hour) to get and come back from the glacier across the steppe, watching a wide variety of birds.

Lodging in a Hostel room with private bathroom.

Meals we provide: Breakfast.

Day 12    El Calafate –El Calafate airport

Alter breakfast we transfer to El Calafate airport where our services end.

Meals we provide: Breakfast.

Detail of Services

Included

Bilingual tour leader (Spanish – English)

Mountain guide

3 nights lodging in a hostel room with private bathroom

2 nights lodging in a hostel room with shared bathroom

6 nights lodging in Full Camp

Transportation El Calafate airport – El Chaltén – El Calafate – El Calafate airport.

During the trip we combine private and regular buses.

Perito Moreno glacier excursion.

11 breakfasts, 7 lunch box and 7 dinners as shown below.

Lodging

The Fitz Roy Wild Trails is offered with the following type of accommodations:

Full Camps are pitched up early in the season, so we find the camp ready upon arrival. It offers comfortable 3 people igloo type tents for each 2 passengers, with mattresses and sleeping bags. An inside cotton sheet is provided as inner clothing for the sleeping bag. 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 bathrooms are latrine type.

In El Chaltén we take a bed in hostel rooms, but with shared bathrooms. This mean the bathroom is outside your bed room, being available different bathrooms for both men and women. You share the room with other guests of the Hostel of your same gender.

In El Calafate we lodge in hostel rooms with private bathrooms. This means that you take a bed and you share the room with fellow travellers of your same gender and your same group.

Meals

The following meals are provided in this program.

We will provide the transportation of all the general equipment for the trek (tents, dinning tent or dinning place, and kitchen tents, tables and benches, table service and kitchenware, food, first aid kits).

We will carry the passengers’ luggage up to a maximum of 8 kg, including your own sleeping bag and mattress.

Not included

National Parks fees

Life and medical insurance

Drinks

Tips

Air tickets and airport taxes

Services not detailed in the program

Notes

We hold the right to change the itinerary or to 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.

Meeting Point

The Meeting Point for the Group on Day 1 is at 7 pm at the lobby of the Hostel del Glaciar Pioneros, street Pioneros 251, El Calafate. This Meeting Point can be modified and will be confirmed upon booking confirmation of the passenger.

¿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 hs 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. We never walk higher than 1500 mts above sea level. Previous outdoor experience in camping and hiking in the wilderness results in more chances of enjoying the trek, as we use a lot our camps inside the National Parks.

List of suggested personal equipment:

Backpack, 50 lts or so

Sleeping bag down or synthetic for -10ºC

Sleeping mattress

Trekking shoes or boots

Thermal underwear

Trekking pants

Fleece

Breathable parka and over pants

Gaiters

Gloves

Thermal socks

The necessary spare cloth

Wool hat

Sun hat

Sun glasses

Sun screen (UV is very strong during the southern spring, from september thru december)

Personal items

Lamp

Trekking poles (recommended, if you are use to them)

Personal medication

Weather in Patagonia is unpredictable. Not very cold, but it is usually windy. To dress in layers is the best advice.

Important: Before you travel please check your Tour Voucher and Arrival Information for the latest joining instructions. This will be sent to you upon receipt of final payment.

All itineraries are subject to change without prior notice.

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