Pingo Waterfall / Cascada Pingo

Pingo Waterfall / Cascada Pingo

Information

  • Operated: From October to April, but it depends on conditions.
  • Start: CONAF Office at GuardarΓ­a Grey
  • End: CONAF Office at GuardarΓ­a Grey
  • Trek Time: 4 hours return
  • Distance: 6.5km return
  • Difficulty: High, (Guide required)
  • Experience Required: You need to be reasonably fit and accustomed to long walks.
  • Altitude Gain: 191m

Description

This trail starts at a point to GuardarΓ­a Grey in the west section of the park, just in front of the Pingo restaurant and the entrance to Grey beach. After walking for almost 1 hour, you will enter the Pingo Valley, which is one of the last places of pristine beauty with almost no human intervention. Also, this area was not touched by previous park fires, thus keeping the flora and fauna intact.

As you walk through the forest there will be ascents and descents, but when you get to a clearing in the woods you will receive a different perspective of the Paine Range. Also, with some luck you may be able to see flora and fauna that is quite different from that found in the rest of the park.

After walking between 2 and 2.5 hours, you will arrive at the viewpoint of the Pingo Cascade (Pingo Waterfall). At this point you can rest for lunch before returning by the same trail back to the start.

Trekking Near to Hotel Grey

Near to Hotel Grey

Ferrier Look Out / Ferrier Mirador

  • Operated: From October to April, but it depends on conditions.
  • Start: Conaf Office, next to Pingo Restaurant
  • End: Conaf Office, next to Pingo Restaurant
  • Trek Time: 7hrs return
  • Distance: 10km return
  • Difficulty: High
  • Experience Required: You need to be reasonably fit and accustomed to long walks.
  • Altitude Gain: 700m

Description

Ferrier Mountain is located in the west part of the park, next to the Conaf Office in the Grey sector, not too far from Hotel Grey.

Above all, the return hike is about 7hrs and offers panoramic views over Grey Lake, Pingo Glacier, the Torres del Paine Massif and the Cuernos del Paine. However, the trek involves some difficult uphill stretches. For example, the trail almost immediately heads upwards from the start and continues up at a steep, and zig-zagging 60 Β° elevation, quickly reaching an altitude of 700 meters above sea level.

Before reaching the often-windy viewpoint, you will cross a river, and enter a Lenga forest.

Shortly after this point you will reach Ferrier viewpoint (mirador), and from here you will have spectacular panoramic views of Glacier Grey and the icebergs floating on the lake, the Paine Mountain Range, Paine River, Toro Lake and Pingo Glacier.