Waypoints

1. S : km 0 - alt. 4 m - Punta Arenas - Porvenir Ferry - Ferry runs between Punta Arenas and Porvenir normally 1-2 times a day, depending on the season. Check the schedules online. Tickets from the ticket offices in the harbours max 1 hours in advance of the departure. Ticket 6.200 Chilean pesos (around USD 10) per person, bikes for free. If you are coming from south and miss the ferry, there are many hospedajes in town.
2. 2 : km 50.35 - alt. 6 m - Water (maybe) - If there is any fisherman around, they could possibly fill your water bottles. If not, ask any houses along the way. Decent natural water sources are very rare here.
3. 3 : km 56.42 - alt. 57 m - Water (poor quality) - A few small, slow flowing streams in the area have poor quality water. A lot of sheep in the area, so all the water has a high risk of being contaminated. Water could be muddy too. Better to ask water from the few estancias along the road, though not many are close to the road.
4. 4 : km 59.53 - alt. 37 m - Water (poor quality) - A few small, slow flowing streams in the area have poor quality water. A lot of sheep in the area, so all the water has a high risk of being contaminated. Water could be muddy too. Better to ask water from the few estancias along the road, though not many are close to the road.
5. 5 : km 101.7 - alt. 27 m - Bikeshacking in a bus stop - The tiny hut has room for 3-4 people to sleep on the floor. The area is extremely windy, this is the only shelter or wind protection in the area. No water, so get your water from the river close to the king pinguin colony a bit more than 15km south or from the streams 40km west.
6. 6 : km 116.27 - alt. 7 m - Parque Pinqüino Rey - King Pinguin colony can can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday, from 11am to 18pm. Entrance fee (in the summer of 2017): 12.000 Chilean pesos, around USD 20. Some love it, some don't. I rolled by after closing time. The ranger can fill you water bottles possibly.
7. 7 : km 117.38 - alt. 7 m - Water - Moderate quality water from the river. Treatment is necessary. If the Parque Pingüine Ray is open, the ranger is happy to give you water as well.
8. 8 : km 151.28 - alt. 14 m - Water - Water from the kiosk or any of the houses around the village.
9. 9 : km 151.33 - alt. 14 m - Tiny Kiosk - Tiny kiosk with a few basics and empanadas. The owner lives in a trailer next to the hut, knock the door.
10. 10 : km 184.69 - alt. 243 m - Water - Water from Rio Russfin. Treatment necessary due to high risk of Giardia in Tierra del Fuego.
11. 11 : km 189.88 - alt. 208 m - Water - Water from Rio Russfin if you skip the visit to the petrol station of the Russfin forestry facility.
12. 12 : km 236.75 - alt. 159 m - Water from Carabineros - Carabineros at the check point are happy to fill up your water bottles.
13. 13 : km 239.91 - alt. 197 m - Wild camping in the woods - Good wild camping prospects in the woods. Find your spot! Water from the border or from the road check point of Carabineros a few kilometres east.
14. 14 : km 250.78 - alt. 115 m - Passport control Chile - Paso Bellavista is open only from the beginning of November to the end of March from 8am to 8pm. Chile and Argentina have extremely strict food import regulations, for instance importing any fresh food, meat in any form or nuts, for instance is not allowed. Check the latest import regulations. You are allowed to consume the food which cannot be imported at the border.
15. 15 : km 250.88 - alt. 113 m - Water - The border officials are happy to fill up your bottles.
16. 16 : km 252.57 - alt. 94 m - Passport control Argentina - Paso Bellavista is open only from the beginning of November to the end of March from 8am to 8pm. Chile and Argentina have extremely strict food import regulations, for instance importing any fresh food, meat in any form or nuts, for instance is not allowed. Check the latest import regulations. You are allowed to consume the food which cannot be imported at the border.
17. 17 : km 252.65 - alt. 96 m - Water - The border officials are happy to fill up your bottles.
18. 18 : km 274.03 - alt. 57 m - Water - Water from Rio de la Turba. Trout in the river too.
19. 19 : km 293.1 - alt. 42 m - Water - Good quality water from the river. Treatment necessary die to high risk of Giardia in Tierra del Fuego. Camping possible if you get your bike over fences, do not mind the wind and being seeing from the road. Room to escape the rain under the bridge. Trout in the river too.
20. 20 : km 318.15 - alt. 94 m - Water (poor quality) - Poor quality water source. Treatment necessary.
21. 21 : km 321.16 - alt. 125 m - Water (poor quality) - Poor quality water source. Treatment necessary.
22. 22 : km 321.56 - alt. 136 m - Start/end of private lands, locked gate - Start/end of private lands. Gate is locked, climb over. If seen, go to say hi and ask politely a permission to cross. Though there are no houses near by at all.
23. 23 : km 333.44 - alt. 130 m - Forest track starts/ends - Soft forest track starts/ends here.
24. 24 : km 335.24 - alt. 142 m - Water (poor quality) - Poor quality water source in the meadow. Treatment is necessary. Could dry out in the summer.
25. 25 : km 335.99 - alt. 141 m - Water (poor quality) - Poor quality water source in the meadow. Treatment necessary. Could dry out in the summer too.
26. 26 : km 336.88 - alt. 151 m - Water (poor quality) - Poor quality water source in the meadow. Treatment advised. Could dry out in the summer.
27. 27 : km 340.31 - alt. 157 m - Water (poor quality) - Poor quality water source in the meadow. Treatment is necessary. Could dry out in the summer.
28. 28 : km 342.3 - alt. 181 m - Wild camping - The whole woody section between public roads has great wild camping opportunities with wind protection. Find your own spot. Poor quality water sources of the area marked on map.
29. 29 : km 344.35 - alt. 104 m - Forest track starts/ends - Soft forest track starts/ends here.
30. 30 : km 346.71 - alt. 78 m - Start/end of private land - Start/end of private lands. If seen, go to say hi and ask politely a permission to cross. Route goes just a few hundred meters from Estancia Rubi.
31. 31 : km 408.34 - alt. 69 m - Rio Ewan - Might not be gin clear, but it is water anyway. This is an alternative for asking water from the nearby houses. Water filtration or boiling necessary due to high risk of Giardia in the whole Tierra del Fuego.
32. 32 : km 472.87 - alt. 30 m - River crossing along a beaver damn - River crossing along a beaver damn, if it has not been washed away since April 2017. The old bridge has collapsed long ago. Potentially a tricky crossing.
33. 33 : km 472.97 - alt. 35 m - Wild camping - Great wild camping prospects all along the bank of Lago Fagnano. Find your spot! If the fishing hut is empty at Rio Milna though, this spot offers some moderate wind protection. A couple of annoying locked gates in the area.
34. 34 : km 497.78 - alt. 119 m - Restaurant - Restaurant La Casona along the main road. I stuck with my pasta.
35. 35 : km 504.1 - alt. 125 m - Closed hotel and cabañas - Closed hotel offers world class bikeshacking. Some prefer the hotel, but the most the cabañas though. The hut number four used to be best. Good wild camping in the area too. Beaver dam on south side of the lake is a good reminder of the presence of Giardia. Big trout in the lake as well.
36. 36 : km 506.84 - alt. 420 m - Paso Garibaldi (460m) - Paso Garibaldi is the only real pass of the route. Old Ruta 3 to the pass from Lago Escondido is steep and rocky.
37. 37 : km 528.84 - alt. 118 m - Wild camping - Easy access to the river and fire pits, which could attract locals. Decent spot to wild camp otherwise. Small trout in the river. There are possibly many more wild camping spot in the valley, but this and the one a few hundred meters easy are the ones very easy to access.
38. 38 : km 529.15 - alt. 117 m - Wild camping - Easy access to the river, which could attract locals. Might be more peaceful than the other spot a few hundred meters away. Small trout in the river. There are possibly many more wild camping spot in the valley, but these are the ones very easy to access.
39. 39 : km 548.4 - alt. 12 m - Sea Food Restaurants - First of the multiple sea food restaurants along the coast line before the gate of the military area 15km away. I sticked with my pasta and skipped them all.
40. 40 : km 563.26 - alt. 10 m - Gate to the military area - Gate to the military area is locked, but you can push your bike around it through a broken fence. Army trains here once every a couple of months, rest of the time the area seem to be unused and without any military presence. During any military activity the area should be avoided!
41. 41 : km 576.58 - alt. 12 m - Wild camping - Good wild camping by the river, decent wind cover too. Other rivers along the coast offer decent wild camping, but this might be the nicest.
42. 42 : km 586.1 - alt. 12 m - Start/end of hike-a-bike - Occasional hike-a-biking starts/ends around here. Occasional steep sections and thorny over grown vegetation. Some fallen trees and mud too. The section takes 4-6 hours. This is also the most most western point of the rarely used military zone.
43. 43 : km 591.38 - alt. 31 m - Start/end of hike-a-bike - Occasional hike-a-biking starts/ends around here. Occasional steep sections and thorny over grown vegetation. Some fallen trees and mud too. The section takes 4-6 hours.
44. 44 : km 593.96 - alt. 32 m - Wild Camping - Plenty of camping space with epic view to the Beagle Channel. No wind cover though. Cows around too. Water from the creek 500m east, where is more sheltered spot to camp for a couple of tents as well. This is the last nice and peaceful spot before town if coming from east.
45. 45 : km 615.82 - alt. 129 m - National Park Entrance - Entrance fee around 22USD in July 2017.
46. 46 : km 625.63 - alt. 5 m - Camping - Free organised campsite of the National Park of Tierra del Fuego. One of many, but this is nice.
47. E : km 628.42 - alt. 4 m - The end of the world

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