The Cerro del Chupón is a hike that I remember very well for two reasons. Firstly, my shoes have never been so muddy and dirty after a hike as when I went up the Cerro del Chupón and secondly, despite everything, I would really recommend going up to anyone. Like the view is really beautiful and there is like a cool rock formation up there that you can take great photos with. They are a bit like the trademark of Cerro el Chupón.

The ascent to the Cerro del Chupón is not necessarily close to the Barrio Antiguo or the centre of Monterrey. However, as there was another view (Copete del Águila in park Chipinque) that I due to circumstances couldn’t go to see, I had been looking for other opportunities to hike up somewhere and have a similarly great view.
When I arrived at the ascent, I not only first had to enter a private property – or at least climb through the fence right next to a house – which made me feel like an intrudor, but I also very quickly came across earthy and really slippery and muddy ground on the way up. Like even though I didn’t think much of it before, it had rained the fay before. So I guess a could’ve anticipated that. Of course I tried to minimise the damage, because as a backpacker you don’t always have a lot of good footwear with you, but no chance. My shoes were muddy and ready for the washing machine within a couple of meters. Apart from that, I only made very slow progress because it was really slippery and – I’ll be honest – I wasn’t sure in that moment whether I would push through because… a) it’s exhausting and possibly all the way to the top? And b) is the view really worth it?
Luckily for me, it got a lot better shortly afterwards and the majority of the path that followed led mainly through dense, wild green forest and over only a few muddy parts

Once I reached the „top“ – eg the point where it didn‘t go any further up, but simply continued straight on towards the viewpoint – things got interesting because… I don’t think I’ve ever walked along such an overgrown hiking trail before. And not that the path wasn’t clearly walkable, but the bushes were so high and so dense that you couldn’t see the path at the bottom, only feel it. My legs really smooched a lot of grasses and bushes that day. Once the path was really no longer visible at all, I just kept going because I’d already come too far to give up now 😀
Eventually, I fought my way through and actually arrived at the point where the special rock formation is and you have a view of Monterrey. And what can I say? The somewhat adventurous climb, during which I almost turned back more than once, was well worth it. Because the view was really great, the rock formation a special ad-on and I was really happy to have achieved this view. So Happy Kat 😊
And on the way back, I knew that it was possible to find my way through and that I would arrive safely, so it was only half as bad. Except for the slippery part. Slippery downhill can be even worse than uphill… My shoes looked like….

Go or not? Funnily enough, I would highly recommend the Cerro del Chupón. The hike is a bit of an adventure – at least under the conditions I had at the time – but! It was really worth it! And the view was really beautiful! I don’t regret a second of the trip and was very glad that I didn’t turn back, but continued to the top. And if you look at the photos: the view and everything is cooler than it might look on the photos 😊 😉