Climbing Tungurahua in 2 days
Tungurahua Province – Ecuador
Elevation:
(16,480ft/5.023m)
Difficulty
Intermediate
Duration
2 days
Itinerary
Day 1: Machachi (10,170ft/3.100m) – Tungurahua refuge (12,467ft/3.800m)
We will drive in the morning south from Machachi for about 2,5 hours towards the city of Ambato (8,858ft/2.700m) through the Avenue of the Volcanoes and then we will turn left and keep driving down for about an hour more towards the jungle directions, just before the town of Baños at about (5,906ft/1.800m), will change again the driving direction to the south to get the Sangay National Park entrance and finally will drive still for about 40 minutes until we get (9,186ft/2.800m), where our vehicle will be left, from this point we will start our 3,5 hours hike to the Tungurahua Refuge (12,467ft/3.800m), this trail will leads us through a very impressive vegetation zone, as we hike higher we will notice many life zones and how the vegetation will change gradually to a shorter one and less diverse. We will get dinner and overnight at this place (-/-/D)
Day 2: Tungurahua Summit (16,480ft/5.023m) – Machachi
We will wake up very early in the morning will get some light breakfast and prepare all our needed equipment, we will still start walking on some short Coriaceous vegetation for about 1,5 hours, then the trail will turn into a sandy and scree terrains for most of the ascension, depending on the weather conditions the very last part will be snowed, so it will be necessary to bring and use our crampons, after 5 to 6 hours of this very exceptional adventure, we finally will get our prize, ¡the summit of Tungurahua!, where we could really admire the impressive deep crater, the beautiful surrounding mountains like El Altar, Sangay, Chimborazo among other, the greenest of the Amazon Jungle on the east side of the Mountain and much more; depending on the weather conditions we will stay on the summit for several minutes, and then we will start our descent to the refuge for about 2 to 3 hours, we will rest for a few minutes and will pack our belongings in order to keep going down for another 2 hours to where our vehicle was left on the previous day; from this point we will drive either to Baños town (5,906ft/1.800m) for the hot springs or straight to Machachi, it will depend on our time and energy. The drive back to Machachi will take us still another 3,5 hours (B/-/-)
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