The next two days of hiking are often completed by people in ONE DAY.
That’s something I’m grateful for– being able to take our time. To have the option to wait 20 minutes for a cloud to pass or just stop to look around and take it all in.
I feel like many people rush through the “W-Trek” because of the time crunch to finish the entire route. [Pro] is you get to see more views. [Con] is are you really able to appreciate all the beauty around you?
I’m probably just jealous because we didn’t get to hike through French Valley.
We had the best weather during these two last days, but with the toughest trails because of the insanely high incline.
From base to top is around 2,467 feet! I never wanted to quit, but I sure felt like taking an indefinite break. Ha.
In the picture below, you can see Camp Paine Grande, which is where we spent the night. You can imagine our view at breakfast.
Our last look before taking the ferry on Lake Pehoé again.
Views during our bus ride to Camp Torres Central.
After rearranging our things to condense what we needed into one backpack at Torres Central, we left our things there , and started our 3.5-mile hike to Camp Chileno.
Basically hiking uphill the entire time.
So this meant many many breaks.
Khang and I saw faces of fatigue on almost everyone hiking down while we hiked up. Remember that people usually hike from Torres Central to Las Torres in one day and we were doing it in two days.
I forgot to mention how Khang and I said “Hola!” to almost everyone we passed by on all five days that we were there.
Yep, we were that couple.
No matter the weather or how tired we were…if you were near us then we greeted you. Khang got fancy on me and started saying “Buenos Dias”, which means “Good morning”. We said those two phrases so much that he research on how to say “Good luck hiking today”… um yeah…I told him that was maybe trying too hard.
Talk about a valley! This was the flattest it got during the hike, which was also at the very end. My thighs were so relieved!
Camp Chileno was the only place where we camped and it was the perfect choice because it felt like we were camping in the trees.
The bathrooms weren’t very clean so we opted not to shower and went straight to bed after dinner.
I enjoyed dinner at Camp Chileno the most. We were served this deliciously fresh appetizer that I cannot forget about. You can bet to see it on “Cookingwithjules” in the near future.
It was hard because the sun doesn’t set till almost 10 pm in Patagonia. Awesome for hiking all day, but bad when you’re planning to wake up really really early the next day.
Us trying to map out our way for the hike to Las Torres. 
Thanks to Khang’s master planning–the highlight of our trip was on the last day of trekking to Las Torres.
And boy was it absolutely brilliant.
Oh gosh, I can’t wait to share with you guys. One more day. I promise it’ll be worth it.
Thanks for reading and following along,
with me
Jules.