Fjällräven Classic Chile: walking a living territory

Each year, Fjällräven Classic Chile brings together hundreds of people to explore Patagonia on foot, in a multi-day trek across the Patagonian steppe. It is a long-distance trekking experience, where participants move independently, carrying their own gear and crossing an open, remote and demanding landscape.

But this is not an empty landscape.

It is an active territory, where different species —including humans— share space, resources and time.

A journey through an ecosystem

The Fjällräven Classic route crosses part of the Estancia Cerro Guido territory, a landscape where ranching, wildlife and conservation coexist within the same system. This is home to guanacos, ñandú (rhea), foxes and pumas.It is also where sheep ranching has taken place for more than a hundred years. To move through this territory is not just about covering distance.It is about entering an ecosystem where every element plays a role — and where every intervention, no matter how small, has an impact.

At Cerro Guido Conservation Foundation, we work within this same landscape, developing research and management strategies that seek to make wildlife conservation compatible with livestock production. Our collaboration with Fjällräven Classic Chile is grounded in that same principle: understanding that this territory is not a backdrop, but a living system.

The presence of people in this landscape —when properly managed— can be part of that balance.

Beyond the experience

For participants, the challenge is physical: covering long distances, adapting to the climate, maintaining the pace. But there is another dimension, less visible.

Walking through this territory also means learning how to read it: understanding its silences, recognizing its traces, grasping its scale. And above all, understanding that this landscape functions because there is a balance —fragile, dynamic— between those who inhabit it.

Conservation in motion

Conservation in landscapes like this does not happen in isolated areas, but across broad, connected and constantly used territories.

Some pumas, for example, move across hundreds of square kilometers.Other species adjust their behavior to avoid encounters.

Nothing is static.

The challenge is not to stop movement, but to make it compatible with the life that depends on it.

Because conservation is not about exclusion. It is about learning to coexist.

Fjällräven Classic Chile is a unique opportunity to experience Patagonia from within, crossing a real, open and constantly moving territory.

If you want to be part of this experience, registrations are now open:

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