Duration : acclimatization, 2 days and 16 days in trekking and mountain.
Itinerary:
Day 1 .-Huaraz (3090m) - Cashapampa (2800m) - Llamacorral (3800 m.) At 07:00 am we leave Huaraz with a Van towards Cashapampa, the starting point of our trek. A street in good condition leads us through the Callejón de Huaylas. In Caraz (2290m) we stop to see the the market and add some typical food to our provisions. The following dirt road to Cashapampa (1:30 hours from Caraz).
Arriving in Cashapampa we meet our porters and donkeys, who will accompany us during the next days. Very important for this day is a good mosquito protection. By 12:30 we begin our trek through the beautiful Santa Cruz valley.
The path starts with a soft ascent at the edge of the Santa Cruz river. The vegetation becomes generous and the diversity of the plant is astonishing. Very soon we can see the some glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca. At about 3 pm we arrive at our first camp: a large meadow at the river with a good view at the impressing south face of the TAULLIRAJU (5830m).
Day 2.-Llamacorral (3800m) - Taullipampa (4250m) After our first night in the high mountains we continue our trek at 8 am towards Taullipampa. We slowly gain altitude and in 3850m come to our first mountain lake with name Ichicocha (Cocha means mountain lake in Quechua). Half an hour later we arrive at our second lake (Jatuncocha, 4000m), which impresses us with its intensively turquois water. Later we see at the left hand site the famous Alpamayo (5947m), which for many people is the most beautiful mountain in the world. The Alpamayo basecamp could be reached in one hour from here. We continue our trip and arrive at the next camping site at 2 pm. From here we see the best of the Cordillera Blanca: in the northwest the Alpamayo and the Quitaraju, in the Southwest the Artesonraju (6025m) and in the north the Taulliraju (5830m) and the Rinrijirca (5810m)
Day 3.- Taullipampa (4100m) - Punta Union pass (4750m) - Huaripampa (3800m) Today we face the hardest stage of the Santa Cruz trek: the pass Punta Unión with 4750m. However, the view at the Taulliraju, which we are approaching, rewards us for all our efforts. After a 3 hour ascent we made it and deserve a break with an overwelming panorama. The descent is easy . Camp in Cachinapampa ( 3,800 m.)
Day 4.- Huaripampa (3800m) - Paccha (4200m) Today`s destination is called Paccha. The trial leads us through a beautiful tract on a soft grass floor - a great boon for our punished feeds. We pass the second andenean village called Vaquería (3900m) - here we also can go for a short "shopping" tour. After some serpentines we come to an asphalt street and search for a suitable camping site on the right hand side of it close to the river
Day 5.- Paccha (4200m) - Portachuelo Pass (4767m) - Cebollapampa (3850m) - We cross the second pass Portachuelo (4767m) Descent and visit to the mountain lakes Llanganuco - Orconcocha (3857m) and Chinancocha (3850m) Descent to excelent place with views to the mountains, Cebollapampa camp.
Day 6.- Rest in Cebollapampa
Visit to 69 leke (optional)
Excelent view to Chacraraju west face
PISCO ASCENT
DAY 7 .- The walk to Pisco base camp path meanders from the valley floor, crossing several rivers, before ascending the hillside. Finally, the sparse trees give way to an open valley at the head of which we will find the base camp and refuge "Peru". (4750 m.)
We follow the morain terrain to "morain camp" (4900 m.) The camp will be close to little lake.
The view from there are really amazing to Yanapaccaha, Huandoy, Chopicalqui, Huascarán ...
DAY 8 .- 3 a.m. start the ascent to the summit.
We will gain the glacier just beyond the lake and follow it without difficulty to the Huandoy-Pisco Col (5,350m). From here, the route climbs broad slopes towards the summit. Although never steep (up to 45°), we will need to be careful in picking our route through crevasses and over snow bridges before approaching the final summit section. Here we may encounter the steepest snow slope, a short pitch of 50 - 60 º, before pulling on to the summit. Our ascent will be rewarded by absolutely brilliant views ( 360 °), especially of Chacraraju and Huascaran.
Is the most view from a summit in cordillera Blanca.
Some seasons, is posible find ice walls ( 10 - 30 m./ 65 - 70 º).
Return to base camp.
DAY 9 .- Descent to cebollapampa and return to Huaraz.
DAY 10 .- Rest in Huaraz.
Optional: Make the descent from portachuelo de Llanganuco to Yungay in mountain bike (2200 m. in down hill)
HUASCARAN ASCENT
Day 11.-Leaving Huaraz very early on this day we drive to the town of Musho (3400 m.), the jumping off point for Huascarán. Here, we load our gear on burros we hike with day packs to Huascarán Base Camp at an elevation of 4,200 m. The walk to Base Camp normally takes about 4 hours.
Day 12.- As we climb above Base Camp the route becomes more difficult, taking a complex path up and around huge glacially polished granite slabs.
Before the glacier is possible to visit refuge "Don Bosco" 4,900 m.
we arrive at the edge of the ice itself. An additional 2 hours of glacier travel brings us to camp 1, on the glacier at 5,200 m. We will use porters to carry much of the group gear to this camp.
Day 13.-This day we move up to High Camp (camp 2), located in "La Garganta" (The Throat - 6,000 m.), a broad saddle between the north and south summits. As we climb through the increasingly broken glacier, we encounter short section of technical climbing including ice up to about 60 degrees (300 m.) "la canaleta". Again, we will have the aid of porters to carry some of our group gear.
In this passage is common the presence of great crevasses in the glacier.
Day 14.-The advantage of the trek and ascent of Pisco and a gradual acclimatisation will be appreciated today. With the benefit of the climb of the Garganta behind us, the 35° to 40° snow slopes on summit day will be taken in our stride. Leaving our camp on the Col very early, we will cross towards the slopes below the South Summit. We will then climb a short easy angled snow couloir before traversing right, across the face, towards a small group of seracs. From here, we will join the final slope and climb south-east straight up to the summit.
Some season, is possible the formation of ice walls ( 30 - 40 m. / 60 - 65 º ) before to summit.
Time: 8 hours to the summit, 4 hours return to camp 2. (aprox)
Day 15.- Descent to base camp.
Day 16.- From base camp, we will descend to Musho to be met by the transport.Return to Huaraz.
Recommended date :May - September
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