Feb 10 2008
Trekking over Cerro Guanaco
Most summers I travel to my home city, Ushuaia, famous for being the southernmost in the world. While there, climbing the Cerro Guanaco (3500 ft) becomes a family yearly tradition. This year is has been impossible to me to visit home, but I have plans to visit it ASAP, and then, climb that hill.
The trekking isn’t really hard, no preparation is needed. To reach the place you can access by car to the Tierra del Fuego’s national park and parking in a place over Lago Roca. Right upon the parking site there is a three-miles path to the Hito XIV in the border line between Argentina and Chile. At a half of the path there is a deviation where the Cerro Guanaco path starts. The climbing to the forest line takes at most two hours. Once there it is possible to see a nice view of the Beagle and Murray channels. Murray channel divides the Chilean islands of Hoste and Navarino while beagle channel divides both countries Argentina and Chile being a pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. Murray channel drives to the Horn Cape.
About a half mile walking over a peat swamp (an old lake taken over by micro organisms that converted it into peat) you can reach the beginning of the rock. Once there, only two hours separates you from the top where you can see a magnificent panoramic view of the whole Beagle channel, including Ushuaia city.
