So, my bus from Coyhaique dropped me in Villa Cerro Castillo, and after dumping all my unwanted gear at the tourist office, I hit the road to start my hike. I say hit the road, because the trailhead is 25km outside of town, so I needed to hitchhike there. However, an hour later, nothing had happened, and it was now 2pm. I was very aware that it was starting to get a bit late being as I had 17km of walking ahead of me, so I looked for other options. It turned out you could walk up to what is marked as the final campsite. As you can do this from town, I made a start. The first few kilometres were fine, but then I started to lose the trail. I had been warned that the
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