Camping in Vicente Pérez Rosales - 12/30/07

In the morning we hopped on a bus out to a town called Petrohue excited to hike around Volcan Osorno and see new sights. Everything was closed, it being Sunday, so we relied on ourselves to navigate around to trails and everything else. Having a very poor map, this proved to be somewhat difficult but we pulled it off.
Petrohue sits on a lake known as Todos los Santos and is completely surrounded by lush mountains. The scenery was not difficult to look at.We found a trail, one we had planned to hike, called Pasos Desolaciones. It wraps around the side of the massive Volcan Osorno and ends at a refugio, primitive hut. The air was misty, temperature perfect, and hiking on volcanic sand was a new and experience.
Half way up it started to rain, luckily we had the proper equipment to keep ourselves and all our belongings dry. We made it to the high point of the trail, wind and rain ripping across the ridge. At this time we made a decision to hike back down and camp at the lake where the weather was a little milder.