Sat 14th Jan: Rio Manso to Cochamo - JP McCraicken With The News - CycleBlaze

January 14, 2017

Sat 14th Jan: Rio Manso to Cochamo

The Rio Puelo river system as it nears the Pacific. This is the first photo I took in days.
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5km before the village of Cochano, is the turning for a new pass to Argentina "Paso Leon" On the Argentina side it's connected by a 40km ripio road down the Rio Manso valley to come out on Route 40, 60km north of El Bolson. On the Chile side there isn't a road. On the Lago Puelo crossing I met a Swiss cycle touring couple who had come from Argentina this way, who said the Chilean side was very tough going. It took them three days pushing their bikes, covering 10km per day. I also met another Swiss cyclist who used this crossing, lightly loaded on a good mountainbike. He too said it was very tough. It took him two days pushing 16km per day.
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