Alto Lircay Walk |
Getting There
|
|
|
|
Mirador Venado Trek (18km - 600m ascent - 600m descent)
|
|
||
Track through the new growth of deciduous lenga ..... |
.... and beneath the deep shade of the massive evergreen coihue |
Glimpse of Cerro Sal Si Puedes through the beech forest |
|
|
|
|
||
Looking up through the forest toward the Enladrillado Plateau |
Lenga in spring - the beauty of new growth |
Above us to the south a track climbed steeply up to the ragged profile of the Enladrillado Plateau, passing a thin waterfall glittering in the sunlight. Ahead, beyond the edge of the forest, a bridge led across one of several streams that merged to form the Lircay and into a more open landscape where the winter snows still lay thickly. |
|
|
Nello and Diego on the snowy flats |
Loma de Sillahur - the brilliant white world of snow |
|
||
View across the flats to the Cordon del Guamparo |
An island of deciduous lenga in the snow flats |
Panorama across the Venado Canyon to Volcan Descabazedo Grande and Cerro Azul |
Red-leafed herbs of the canyon ridge |
The Rio Claro winds it way through Venado Canyon |
|
|
||
View across the Loma de Sillahur |
Returning across the snow flats |
|
|||
|