I was undecided as to whether I’d climb up to Campamento Torres or just spend the whole day relaxing and recovering below. Today was nothing like yesterday and was warm and sunny. I exchanged email addresses with my 3 companions and they hiked up while I stayed behind. They were going to hike 4 hours [...]
Any remaining illusions I may have had about backpacking being a romantic outdoor experience were obliterated today. What a long, miserable, exhausting day! I knew it would be a long slog, but wasn’t expecting this.
We left camp at 11 a.m., about 2 hours later than expected. Andy and I put on our rainpants but ditched [...]
We were woken up at 8:30 a.m. by the sound of a park ranger wrapping on our tent doors. Apparently we were not allowed to camp in our current position, officially cordoned off by the blue pump hose. Moving wasn’t too big of a deal as I unstaked my tent and carried it to a [...]
Although we had the same company, Darrin and Gill were on a different bus. I was the last one aboard and thus relegated to the back, alongside many backpacks, but with lots of legroom. There I met Andy from San Francisco. He saw me reading my camera manual and it turned out he had a [...]
I met Mike and everyone at their hotel around 11 a.m. They had slept well and looked much better than the night before. Over the next hour they received several phone calls and 3 or 4 different sets of instructions. The race organizers were scrambling and the photographers were at the mercy of their disorganization. [...]
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