FAQs – Everything You Need to Know Before Your Trip

Yes, you need to book your own plane tickets to your final destination with travel insurance. Our trip starts when we pick you up from the airport.We always suggest booking your tickets in order to arrive one or two days before the trip with Peak Patagonia starts, and two days before it ends. It’s nicer to have some time to rest and visit the place, and more secure in case of a flight delay.

A good rule to gauge how hard it is to walk off trail is to double the distance. If you can backpack 30 km / 20 miles in a day on trail, then you can probably do 15 km / 10 miles off.

The terrain will have loose rock, occasional bushwacking, river crossings with no bridges, sand, slippery vegetation, and other surprises. Trekking poles are mandatory.

We divide each activity (backpacking, mountaineering, packrafting, climbing) into four levels. Here’s how we break it down.

Easy - If this was your first trip in the backcountry doing this activity, this is a good difficulty for you. There might be some days that feel hard, but there’s not very much mileage and there’s plenty of time to take breaks, relax, and enjoy the scenery. That being said, we still recommend showing up fit for this difficulty. Make sure you have some weekly exercise regimen.

Medium - You’ve done a few of your own backcountry trips. The idea of a 7 km / 5 mile run, or backpacking ten miles on a flat trail, or going on a week long rafting trip, does not sound like a crazy idea to you. You are willing and ready to take out a mountain pass (with 3000 feet of elevation gain) with a loaded backpack in a day. There might be some long days. You’re ready to try some legitimate off trail routes.

Hard - You love to exercise and get after it on a weekly or daily basis. If you’re a runner, a ten mile run doesn’t sound out of this world hard. You love to bag peaks. Your friends think you have a lot of energy. The idea of doing two passes in a day on a backpacking route is not insane. You don’t mind bushwacking or thrashing through the jungle for a little bit to get to tree line. You’re stable in river crossings. You plan your life around challenging adventures.

Very hard - If you sit still for a few days, you feel antsy. You could accomplish a 30 km / 20 mile run. You’re someone who needs to challenge yourself physically every day. Some things you might’ve done: gone on a mountaineering expedition, backcountry skiing every chance you get in the winter, run a marathon, climbed multiple peaks over 3000m / 10,000 feet, climbed 5.9 / 6a or above, gone on a long bike packing trip. A 15 km / 10 mile day off trail might be about average on a trip like this. If you like to be exhausted, and can handle doing back to back long days with not a ton of recovery time, this is the trip's difficulty for you.

We ask that you have a daily and weekly regimen to exercise and prepare for the trip. We will let you know specifically what we recommend for each trip.

All levels of experience are welcome. From first time campers to advanced mountaineers.

Absolutely. We love working with kids of all ages and can arrange for a trip that caters to the interests of both the parents and their children.

Let us know. We support and will accommodate any dietary restriction.

All of our trips have a plan B built into them. We will try and make that happen. If the chaos is too great, the storm too historic, or the state of the Country too messy, we will reach out and come up with a trip for the future or come up with a fair reimbursement.

You are welcome to bring and make your own food if you wish, however, we specialize in backcountry cooking and can arrange for all food prep and cooking. This will be an option you can let us know of if your pre-check form.

Absolutely, they are more expensive because there are less people to split the cost, but we specialize in custom trips.

It depends if you are in the southern part or northern part of Patagonia.
We give the light hours in Chalten as an example.
Autumn (March-June)– 07.00 – 20.00 Hrs.
Winter – (July-September) 09.30 – 18.30 Hrs.
Spring –(October-December) 07.00 – 20.00 Hrs.
Summer – (January- February) – 04.00 – 23.00 Hrs