Panorama Photo

The common Huayhuash circuit does not even reach Laguna Mitucocha. Many people, however, make a detour to visit the laguna, and possibly to camp on its northern shore, thus splitting the stage Quartelhuain-Carhuacocha in two days.
Then there is an adventure variant which allows to reach the Mitucocha directly from below Cacanan Punta - you can imagine it in the meadows in direction Cacananan. A more adventurous variant connects then the Mitucocha to Carhuacocha through the high pass, marked here 4820 GPS. It connects the so called "hidden valley" (although no longer hidden in the present work) with the isolated Alcaycocha, from which the descent to Carhuacocha is straightforward.
On top of the variant I also put the ascent to this little panoramic summit, which allows a full view on the wonderful, yet unknown Niñacocha, dominated by the equally-named Niñashanca.
Also Jirishanca is interesting from here, although ist most iconic and impressive aspect remains the one shown in N.26211. An useful comparison is also that of the present wiew with the one from Sambuya (N.26786), showing the opposite side of the central chain from a comparable distance. And it is amazing that Sambuya lies only 5 km away from here - this witnesses the truly amazing morphology and steepness of the central Huayhuash chain.

Location: -10.2155 -76.89118
Larger: http://bit.ly/2NPPLOx
GPS track: in preparation...