Balgue - Santa Cruz
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 8.16 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,999 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 4,245 ft
- Max elevation
- 4,292 ft
- TrailRank
- 22
- Min elevation
- 244 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 4 hours 14 minutes
- Time
- 5 hours 2 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2336
- Uploaded
- March 5, 2023
- Recorded
- March 2023
near Balque, Rivas (Nicaragua)
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Itinerary description
Pretty straight forward on the way up from finca Magdalena.
Gets more and more humid as you get to the cloud forest.
1 hour to the first view point that probably has an amazing view when it's not white out in the clouds. 3 min break.
Way down to the lake is pretty steep and seems longer than expected especially when you can't see the bottom because it's all white from the clouds. 15 min break and about 10 min back up to the path.
Way down has less rocks and way more mud, having poles was definitely a good idea.
Gets messy down the end the path that goes out next to the chocolate factory thing in town is inside someone's property so I got confused and ended up going out through Zopilote after a bit of looking around.
(Can't believe I messed up my first wikiloc ever)
From there either walk, hitchhike or take the bus back to the farm.
Gets more and more humid as you get to the cloud forest.
1 hour to the first view point that probably has an amazing view when it's not white out in the clouds. 3 min break.
Way down to the lake is pretty steep and seems longer than expected especially when you can't see the bottom because it's all white from the clouds. 15 min break and about 10 min back up to the path.
Way down has less rocks and way more mud, having poles was definitely a good idea.
Gets messy down the end the path that goes out next to the chocolate factory thing in town is inside someone's property so I got confused and ended up going out through Zopilote after a bit of looking around.
(Can't believe I messed up my first wikiloc ever)
From there either walk, hitchhike or take the bus back to the farm.
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