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Valley de Cochamo

Submitted By: Sevve Stember on Feb 25, 2009
Elevation: 1,000 feet
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Valley de Cochamo looking from Valley de Paloma. ...


Description 

The Yosemite Valley of Chile. This wonderful valley is filled with granite peaks and beautiful vistas everywhere you look. There are many committing traditional routes, big wall, and even an overhanging sport crag for rainy days. Generally speaking, the rock quality is good but definitely test holds and use your own discretion.


Getting There 

From Santiago, take a bus to Puerto Montt where you can get supplies and a connecting bus that will get you to the town of Cochamo. From Cochamo, the trailhead is a full 5 mile hike away. Once on the trail, which is an ancient cattle way, the La Junta campground is 10km away.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Valley de Cochamo:
Go Big or Go Home   5.10     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   Valley de Paloma : Pared la Paz
Evangeline   5.10     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   Valley de Paloma : Contrafuerte de Jesus Chris...
Go Big Or Go Home!   5.10     Trad, 1 pitch, 200 feet   Valley de Paloma : Contrafuerte de Jesus Chris...
Otro Dia Otro Largo (another day another pitch)   5.10 A1     Trad, Aid, 9 pitches, 1500 feet, Grade IV   Valley de Paloma : Pared de las Profetas
Bienvenidos a mi Insomnio   5.11a     Trad, 20 pitches, 3000 feet, Grade IV   Cerro Trinidad
Camp Farm   5.11c     Trad, 7 pitches, 950 feet   Cerro La Junta
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Featured Route For Valley de Cochamo
Chino Parada finishing up the roof pitch on Day 1

Otro Dia Otro Largo (another day another pitch) 5.10 A1  International : Chile : ... : Pared de las Profetas
Start with Genesis (2P, 120m, 5.9) to the big roof. P1 (Genesis). 70m+. Belayer should start 15 meters up the ramp. Climb 5.9 for a whole 60m rope to the 2 bolt anchor.P2 (Genesis). 40m. Continue up the crack system to 5 meters under the roof. Two bolt anchor. 5.9 P3. 30m. Traverse the roof right (fixed pin half way) to a 2 bolt anchor. On the FA it was A1. We think it will go at 5.11 after a bit more cleaning. 30mP4. 55m. Go straight ...[more]   Browse More Classics in International


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A scene from the valley floor.

A scene from the valley floor.


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By kyle kubes
From: Boulder, CO
Oct 7, 2009

I'm glad to see someone has finally put Cochamo on this site (I was thinking about doing it, but too lazy). I spent some time there in 2006, and I must say that Cochamo is a truly amazing place, definitely an awesome world-class destination that's well worth going to. Lots of HUGE walls with almost endless first ascent potential, excellent climbing, pristine rivers and waterfalls, beautiful and lush forests with 3000 year old Alerce trees, rippin fast natural waterslides,and it's miles from any roads. The climbing is definitely amazing, be ready for some huge climbs with nice splitters, crazy slabs, and lots of Lumpy Ridge-syle flaring cracks. Some good websites to check out are:
http://www.cochamo.com (excellent Cochamo info)
http://www.stonedance.com (lots of good info on Cochamo and other South American climbing destinations)
http://www.cochamo.org (great site dedicated to protecting Cochamo from terrible fates such as hydroelectric dams, etc)
You can also go to Puerto Varas from Santiago and use that as a resupply town. It's a really nice little town by a lake, it might be a little more mellow than Puerto Montt.
Cochamo alone is definitely worth taking a trip to, but combined with Frey nearby in Argentina makes for one of the best climbing trips ever!