Up at 6:00. Despite how cold it was last night, I was freakin hot in the sleeping bag. It's an amazing sleeping bag. Just FYI, everything is included in the trip, except for the sleeping bags and sleeping mats. The other three all had their own sleeping bags and mats. I was able to rent a sleeping bag and mat (through Ultimate Descents) for about $1.50/day.
We had tea/coffee, breakfast, packed everything up and left about 7:45.
Hiked and hiked and hiked a long way. The distance we covered today is usually a 2 day hike, which we did in one day. By the afternoon, we started descending, down and down and down and down. A lot more greenery in this area, compared to the first day, where it seemed pretty dry and a lot of brown. And the houses around here are much nicer, all painted up different colours.
We stopped at a nice lodge with a great "back yard" for the night. We got there about 5:30, and setup camp. Thunder clouds started appearing, and there was a wild fire not more than 200 yards from us. That freaked me out! I should note that wild fires are not uncommon, we've seen plenty of them. But to have one that close. I had visions of not sleeping and keeping sticking my head out of the tent to see if the wild fire was encroaching on us.
Because of our lack of tent poles, the guides fashioned tent poles out of bamboo. It worked, not great, but it did work.
We got the tents and tarps up just as the rain started pouring down. The rain did put out the raging fire just around the corner, which made me happy. The rain didn't last that long, but it did come down hard.
Supper was veggies, mashed potatoes, garlic bread and fatty pork. I was the only meat eater out of the four of us.
To bed about 9:00.
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