Santa Cruz and Mount Pisco trekking and climbing trip

In the morning a private transfer will take you, across the Callejón de Huaylas, to the village of Cashapampa, where we will meet. Then, we’ll walk along the right bank of the Santa Cruz river in order to reach a wide meadow, where our campsite is located. Overnight camp at Llama Corral.

This day we will walk on a gently uphill trail, along the green lush valley of Santa Cruz. After that, the trail winds up on a zig zag until Alpamayo. Finally, the route takes us to the isolated Taullipampa campsite.

* Optional: you can keep walking up to Alpamayo base camp and the Arhueycocha Lake. Then we will go back to the Taullipampa camping site, where we’ll spend the night.

This day we will walk on a gradual ascending route across the Pre-Inca trail. We then reach the Punta Union pass, with a superb view of the surrounding summits, like Pukajirca, Taulliraju, Artezonraju Andquitaraju, Taillicoca and Jatuncocha in the Santa Cruz valley. We’ll descend towards the Huaripampa valley. The camping for the night is located at the junction of Paria Valley and the Huaripampa gorge.

This day we will walk down into a wide meadow and a flat green valley with some sections of quenual, quisuar and forest. We will then reach Huaripampa village and continue to the Vaqueria settlement. Here our private transfer will be waiting to take us to Cebollapampa. On the road we will pass by the Portachuelo pass, where the view is great. Overnight camp at Cebollapampa.

This day we walk from Cebollapampa towards the base camp, with the help of donkeys and donkey drivers, who are going to load our climbing gear up to the base camp. Overnight at Pisco base camp.

We will leave early in the morning from the base camp (1 AM). We must climb on the rocky section until we reach the glacier. Then we climb through the west ridge, where there are occasionally some steep slopes and ice sections. This route is not too difficult but it means a challenge due to the altitude. Once at the top of Mount Pisco the view is really impressive. After spending few minutes on the summit, we will return to the base Camp by the same route. Last night at base camp in Cebollapampa.

On our last day after our breakfast we will walk down to Cebollapampa town, where our private transfer awaits to bring us back to Huaraz.