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Immediately you get into a thick cloud forest that will cover you almost the whole way up to Laguna de la Coromoto. In this environment live a huge amount of insects, some of them poisonous, so you should not put your hands on logs or rocks before checking them out. There are also snakes, so watch out.

Trail is wide, shadowy and clear, with a continuous but smooth up slope (at least in this part). It climbs in zigzag the hill southeast of La Mucuy, and sometimes there are open spots from where you can take a look at El Loro creek valley and, beyond, Sierra del Escorial (separating Mucuchíes and La Culata valleys).

There is few water available in the first part of road, and the first ravine is about 1 hour 10 minutes after portal. The amount of water varies strongly according season of year.

After 2 hours of walking the trail stop ascending and alternates with down slopes. At this point you'll start to hear a river. Ten minutes later you'll cross the first permanent creek (photo at right), and 4 min. after that there is another, but smaller.

At 2:15 hours you've walked a third of trail, and should be at Mesa de los Pinos, 2600 m (8530 ft) high. Formerly, there was a shelter here, but it was destroyed by stupid trekkers.

Now there is only a flat area where you may camp, going down at left from place shown in the picture. Quebrada La Coromoto goes besides camping area, but through a very deep canyon. If you need water you'd better get back to small creek mentioned at previous paragraph.

About 7 minutes after Mesa de los Pinos there is another small ravine and at 15 min. the road ends abruptly in a landslide produced by Quebrada La Coromoto (picture at right). About 20 m (66 ft) before landslide there is a detour at left (east), going into forest (picture below).

After some 50 m (164 ft), this track turns south again and intercepts the original road. The floor is very muddy and slippery. Watch your step.

Half hour after Mesa de los Pinos you'll get to Quebrada del Oso, which marks half the way. This ravine is the biggest you have to cross, and it may be very dangerous during rainy season. Few meters downstream of crossing point it merges with Quebrada La Coromoto.

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