Cerro Arco Iris
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 6.73 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,291 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 4,291 ft
- Max elevation
- 5,145 ft
- TrailRank
-
75
4.6
- Min elevation
- 1,035 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 7 hours 44 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1504
- Uploaded
- October 22, 2016
- Recorded
- May 2014
near El Arco, Los Lagos (Chile)
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Itinerary description
For long time you walk in the middle of the wood, until reaching a spectacular alerce site.
Higher up, you begin to find granite sections, which are overcome with the aid of fixed ropes. There are trees and even alerces, however, even after the lower granite sections.
After the end of the vegetation, you follow the easy ridge, up to a leftwardsa traverse below the main summit, which leads to the viewpoint which is the end of my trail.
I do not know if the classical Arco Iris is this point, the main summit (which for me was barely accessible due to the first autumn snow) or the spot, coming much earlier, marked as "Mirador Arco Iris". I can only witness the exceptional panoramic value of the destination chosen by me.
You are strongly encouraged to look at the labeled version of the summit 360° panorama, namely
http://www.panorama-photo.net/panorama.php?pid=20551
Here I collected all my knowledge about the surrounding names, but I must admit that this knowledge is very incomplete, also because the only helpful site is
http://www.cochamo.com
Please communicate to me if you have some correction or integration to the names reported there!!
Waypoints
Mountain hut
1,047 ft
La Junta
For more information, see my other trail Cochamó - La Junta, www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=15201720
Waterfall
Intersection
Waypoint
2,038 ft
Alerzal milenario
Here you find alerce trees (Fitzroya cupressoides) that are said to be also 4000 years old.
Waypoint
2,637 ft
First little granite band
You turn around it, rightwards when ascending, with the aid of some fixed ropes.
Waypoint
2,788 ft
Fixed ropes
This is the steepest place. It would be impossible here to proceed safely without these ropes.
Waypoint
4,668 ft
Traverse
A long leftwards traverse under sheer granite walls, with limited altitude gain.
Waypoint
5,116 ft
Highpoint
Here I turned left to the panoramic point. I guess that for the true summit I should have turned right, down into a little valley and then up, but there was too much snow on the rocks.
Summit
5,136 ft
Cerro Arco Iris
One of the best panoramas I have ever seen. Add also the feeling of total loneliness.
Panorama
Waypoint
3,964 ft
Mirador Arco Iris
To be honest, on the site I did not single out a precise mirador, since all the ridge is extremely panoramic. To set the waypoint, I sticked to Openstreetmap.
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Easy to follow
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Nice views
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Easy to follow
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Ascenso con mucha pendiente, con zonas muy expuestas, donde hay cuerdas fijas instaladas, las vistas son increibles
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Fenomenal.