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+title: Carretera Austral - Fully pack day
+#date: 2024-03-16
+description: A hiking and cycling day
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+tags: cycling trips carretera-austral
+categories: travel
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+<div class="caption">
+    Rosselot lake and confluence of Palena and Rosselot rivers.
+</div>
+
+The day started as planned.
+A cold early morning breakfast, not in a rush but moving around to sort things and to keep warm.
+After packing my tent and loading the bike, I enjoyed the sunrise in the small beach of the camping site and saw a couple of toninas getting into the fjord.
+To continue warming up, I headed to the Queulat NP entrance and arrived a bit ahead of the opening.
+There workers were arriving and preparing to continue with the access road maintenance.
+
+## The Ventisquero Colgante
+
+{% include figure.liquid path="assets/img/carretera_austral_012.jpg" class="img-fluid rounded z-depth-1" zoomable=true %}
+
+<div class="caption">
+    Puyuhuapi from Los Canelos Trail.
+</div>
+
+The entrance to the NP was smooth.
+To access the park reservations were necessary but payment had to be made at the entrance.
+I was amongst the first group of people to enter the park, together with a couple of Chilean friends and a couple of foreign tourist.
+After a quick debrief about which trails were open, I parked my bike and prepared to walk.
+First to the lagoon (Laguna Tempanos) were I got a clear view of the glacier, but as was taking my last pictures a cloud started to form in front of the glacier.
+
+I calculated that I had to leave by noon if I wanted to arrive at a good time to my next destination or in case I had any accident or longer than predicted stop.
+So if I wanted to reach the lookout closer to the glacier I would had to run a bit.
+With the pressure of time and the clouds forming on the mountains, I rushed to the lookout.
+Even at a faster pace, I stopped at the few lookouts on the way, and even to listen and record a woodpecker singing.
+The trail is relatively steep at the beginning, but after the climb it goes relatively flat with smooth ups and downs.
+When I arrived to the lookout the hanging glacier was covered, only the water falling could be seen below the clouds.
+Knowing the trail and that descending is usually faster, I waited for a while.
+A friend told me that he waited for a couple of hours, I didn't have that much time, but I was satisfied after seen it from the lagoon.
+I waited long enough that people I passed by on the way up and tourists that arrived later caught with me, then I rushed on the descent.
+
+On the way down I saw a couple of foreign tourist, not quite convinced with continuing up, and one of the cyclists I met on the ferry of the second day.
+Since he was wearing a lot of clothes in the ferry, I didn't recognized him, so in my rush down I only said hi and ask how he was doing.
+Arriving at the parking I saw his bike and realized it was him.
+I arrived to the parking at noon, had something to eat, refilled the water bottle and headed out.
+
+## Gravel and amazing roads
+
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+
+<div class="caption">
+    Canelo tree.
+</div>
+
+
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+
+<div class="caption">
+    Sunset at Puyuhuapi fjord.
+</div>
+
+#### Maps:
+
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+
+<br/><br/>
+
+#### More pictures:
+
+<a data-flickr-embed="true" data-header="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/faoch/albums/72177720313509568" title="Carretera Austral"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53409424323_e204897c05_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Carretera Austral"/></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>