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The weather Gods have been kind to me so far. Within ten minutes of getting to Sinuwa, our evening stop, the sky literally opened up and it started pouring. But neither Prem, Bulram, nor I got wet. Sooner or later my luck will run out and I will have to deal with wet and miserable but it has not happened yet. The storm that hit is a true mountain storm, complete with… Read More
And I thought that Langtang Valley had a highway! I shared this morning’s sunrise with about 200 of my newest, closest friends on top of Poon Hill. Poon Hill is a well known stop on the Annapurna circuit as a place to watch the sunrise. Gathered at the stop in the pre-dawn haze was the largest crowd I had seen since starting my trekking adventures 11 days ago. The day started pretty… Read More
The tea house was full last night but it was super quiet. I suspect that everyone was exhausted, as I was, from the grueling climb up the stairs thus everyone went to bed early and likely slept as soundly as I did. Which was good as we got up early and were walking by 6:30 am. Like yesterday the path went straight up the side of the mountain and consisted of more… Read More
Oh my goodness, was today super hard! Prem warned me that today was going to be the toughest day and I hope he is correct because it was steep the whole way and I was just hoping to make it. But like the energizer bunny I kept going and going and going, with lots of breaks, of course. I wish I was in better shape!!! Our day started at 6 am… Read More
Well if anyone asks me if I have ever been 4 wheel drive off road-ing, I can now answer with a definite “Yes!”. Today we drove to Pokhara to stage for the Annapurna trek. When Prem and I were emailing back and forth about my itinerary, he offered me a choice of travel after finishing the Langtang Valley trek. We could drive to Kathmandu then fly to Pokhara or we could drive… Read More
It’s around 7 am and as usual I am up and about before Prem and Bulram. It is a cool morning due to the torrential downpour that we had last night. I was extremely happy that we were dry and cozy inside sitting by the stove in the tea house dining room. It was a full blown thunderstorm including lightning and wind driven sheets of rain. It would have been miserable to… Read More
Since a picture is worth a thousand words and I have tons of pictures to share I thought I would simply do a blog today that is some more photos.
I actually slept later today for some reason and did not wake up until almost 6:45. But there was no hurry as we only had a short walk, maybe three hours, to our overnight stop. Today is mainly a rest day. I was pleasantly surprised when I crawled out of my sleeping bag to find that the temperature was manageable. I did not have to immediately dive into my down jacket as… Read More
Today’s summary: we descended in one day what it took two days to ascend. As we were hiking down the valley today I started feeling a glowing sense of accomplishment the further we went because it was ALL down. It was at that point I realized exactly just how much “up” we had climbed the previous two days. Going up my glutes were cranky, coming down my knees were complaining but I… Read More
I woke up this morning thinking that today was going to be a difficult clothes day. I peeked out my window and saw the sun shining in a bright blue clear sky. That the sky was clear was not too surprising as I could hear a fierce wind blowing. No cloud had a chance of staying in one place with the way the wind was howling past my window. In addition our… Read More
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