There is too much to say for my clumsy fingers, although I have just rememered the pen that comes with the phone and am using it. 5 layers including buff and gloves at the start of the day.. Yes Andrew I needed both my fleeces!! Now in shorts and a T shirt at Pitres.
It was 4.5 hours of descent. I met more walkers near the refugio, intent on conquering Mulhacen. It was 5 degrees at the refugio and the wind chill was horrific. My contact lenses nearly froze onto my eyes. Anyway I want to enjoy my cerbeza now. I have certainly deserved it. But I wouldchave cried if I'd had to go up any more big hills today. Now lets see if the promsed wifi signal works.
South America is really big and I have never been there. I am leaving the safety of my teaching job to explore 5 spanish-speaking countries and to walk in the footsteps of Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands. I am hoping that neither the perilous altitudes of Ecuador, the ravenous midges in the Peruvian rainforest or the crazy Bolivian bus drivers will kill me... I will doubtless meet other people on the edge of sanity who feel the need to wander away from safety. I hope we can be friends.
Cape Wrath Trail
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Safe at Pitres
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It works. And thanks for the dawn photo. And the others of course. Epic. Is it sometimes just warm, or always freezing or roasting? Can we have a photograph with all the kit on: you look very sprightly i was expecting you to look more like a pack animal. Keep blogging: it's a tiny bit like being there. Xx
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