3-day Alerces Glacier Trekking Traverse (Mt. Tronador)

Pampa Linda, in the valley at the foot of Mount Tronador, is the starting point of your trek. You must walk around 4-6 hours to Otto Meiling hut, depending on the pace. Start walking through forests for a couple of hours, enjoying from time to time the astonishing views of Tronador peak and it’s glacier (and the thundering sounds of ice blocks falling!). After leaving behind the bushline,you reach the myhtical Meiling hut, where will spend the night.

Today we meet at the hut and together we will do the Alerces Glacier crossing. Just a couple of meters away from Meiling hut, the ice starts. Equipped with crampons, harness and rope, we will see the beautiful crossing of Alerces Glacier. The pace is really enjoyable, and if the sky is clear we will see Tronador and surrounding peaks, and Andean condors flying around. Once we get off the glacier, we still have an hour or so hiking to the recently refurbished Rocca hut, where we spend the night.

Is your last day, in which you  go down and back to Bariloche. Have two options here. The first one is to follow the trail down to Pampa Linda, your  starting point, and take the bus  back to Bariloche. And the other option is going down to Puerto Frias and from there navigated to Puerto Pañuelo in Bariloche in a couple of nice boats over Nahuel Huapi lake.