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March 29, 2024
We leave the Andes to "enter" the Argentine Pampa towards the legendary Leona. The landscape changes completely, we leave the Andes behind us, the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares with the Glaciar Viedma whose main current gives rise to Lake Viedma. The lake is three times larger than Lake Garda which is
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March 26, 2024
It is the arrival stage in El Chalten, perhaps the most "iconic" place for Patagonian mountaineering, it is the entire stage of Fitz Roy, it is the stage at the end of the ripio but let's go in order. We wake up to a splendid day, the clouds are thinning out over the peaks of Fitz Roy and shortly afterwards
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March 26, 2024
A very particular short, intense and tiring stage is the stage of crossing the two borders, Chilean and Argentine. These borders are not for motorized vehicles, only on foot by bike from this point of view a real pleasure, which is why it is also a border open only in the summer period when tourists
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March 26, 2024
It is the stage with which we will end the Carretera Austral, it is the stage with which we will definitively leave Chile, a splendid nation but we will not finish the tour, there is still something to tell. The previous evening, just before arriving at Mrs Maria's campsite, we met Ferdinando Padilla
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March 24, 2024
Stage with many aspects starting from the visit to Caleta Tortel, the climb to the Cuesta Vagabundo pass, the ferry to Puerto Yungay with the last stretch of Carettera Australe, the arrival at the campsite with Mrs. Giulia. Caleta Tortel is a truly special place, formally it is not on the Carretera Austral
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March 24, 2024
Stage towards Caleta Tortel, which can be reached with a detour of just over 20 from the Carretera. Even today it was all over again, with a surprise at the end but at least without any major climbs. We leave Don Arturo not after a breakfast at "Tiffany" which we eat using the tree trunks that he cut
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March 22, 2024
Short stage, not great weather, a lot of wind and above all a lot of dust. This is the negative side of the Carretera Austral when it hasn't rained for days, when trucks, buses or simply their cars overtake you, you are immersed in a cloud of dust, sometimes you even have to stop. This is why you hope
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March 21, 2024
Relatively short stage with a fair amount of altitude difference, characterized by the Rio Baker. The rivers in Chile, unlike other South American countries, are not very long, due to the shape of the long and narrow territory and above all to the fact that it is crossed by the Andean cordillera almost
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March 20, 2024
Short stage characterized by a boat visit to the Catedrale de Marmol, then the continuation of the splendid route along the General Carrera lake. The evening before we met with Milva and Mauro who arrived by bus from Coyhaique to the small town of Puerto Rio Tranquilo. The town lives largely on tourism
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March 19, 2024
Splendid stage characterized by the Rio Murta, the main tributary of Lake General Carrera and by the lake itself. Let's begin to get to know this splendid lake, with a very particular shape, divided between Chile and Argentina, which, just to give you an idea, is five times larger than the largest lake
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March 18, 2024
Short but very complex stage, due to the weather conditions. Already in the morning the conditions are not great. Today is the day where we divide. Davide, who had already done the Carretera Austral route in 2015, with Larissa will go to Puerto Ibanez, from here the ferry to Chile Chico, and then do
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March 16, 2024
Splendid stage, perhaps one of the most beautiful, also for the passage at the "right" time in one of the most iconic places of the entire Carretera Austral. We leave a little late, change of money, mechanical cyclist (one of the last), some expenses. I'm standing waiting for Larissa, Davide and Fabio
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March 15, 2024
After a few stages it is right to talk about "Chilean dogs" (but also Argentine ones). They live free in the villages, in the towns, along the Carretera Austral, they are a splendid component of the landscape. They live in symbiosis with the population, no one raises the problem, much less them, the
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March 14, 2024
Beautiful sunny day, much needed after yesterday's rain. We leave from Casa de Campo not after seeing the beauty of the place with the morning sun. It's not one of those places that have a "Madonna" view but the place, the two owners, their courageous decision in the time of Covid struck me deeply, Casa
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April 2, 2024
It is the last stage, the one in the closing credits, the one you would never want to arrive, yet like all earthly things they have a beginning and an end, just like this splendid journey, friendships, memories, places will remain, the people met. But let's go in order, another stage which, like the
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