María Jesús

Hello, today I´m going to talk about what I did the last weekend. I am part of a mountain club, and we had planned to go to "Cerro Arenas" (4366 MASL). "Cerro Arenas" is a mountain in the Andes Mountains, Metropolitan Region, Chile, specifically located in the "Valle del Arenas". On Saturday we met in Macul subway, but the car battery had a problem, luckily we were in two cars so they passed current and it was resolved. After that we drived to “Cajón del Maipo”. We started the march to the base camp at about two thirty pm, and at five pm we were already setting up our tents. Sunday was an intense day, we started walking at four am and it took us 10 hours to the summit, this hill is characterized by having a lot of “acarreo” that is a hillside composed of loose material, usually a mixture of pebbles, gravel, stones and rocks of smaller size, which delays the march. The climatic conditions during the whole ascent were good, snow a little hard, cloudy but ...