El Rincón Beach Trek: Trekking, Swimming and Petrohué Falls from Puerto Varas

A wind from the lake cuts across your face as you step onto a narrow trail that skirts Lago Todos los Santos. The water below goes from slate gray to emerald in a single stride; the forest leans in, branches brushing your shoulders. For the next six kilometers the path alternates between packed volcanic grit and soft, root-strewn earth. The Osorno Volcano watches in the distance — its ancient lahars hard as concrete, now streaked with moss — as if the mountain’s past eruptions are a geological script you can read with your boots.