We hiked up to a lake at 4200m which by the way is really really high and there was a fair bit of altitude sickness. The day we went up it poured rain and we had to set up the tent INSIDE the ranger station (thank god for that ramshakel house). It didn´t hold heat at all but it was nice and dry. These pictures show the reward for this rather difficult day. The one above is looking back the way we came from the top of a morraine to the side of the ranger station, just in front of the lake.
Me also at the top of the morraine. Getting down was quite fun, very steep, I did a lot of sledding on my boot.
Just a fantastic picture clay took, same angle as the first picture.
hm, yep, same angle again... but this one on our way down (I can´t seem to get the order of pictures at all right)
Clay on the way back down.
OK so this is me on the way up and it was rainy and I was very sick with food poisoning and altitude illness. It was lame, long story short, and we did 900m of height gain by foot after coming up 1km by little bus in an hour. Oh and it was COLD! 1 degree when we went to bed that night and that house was not at all insulating... many windows didn´t have panes and the walls had a gap before the roof. But the views, you know... it always ends up being worth it.
The lake! Glacier fed and quite near the equator... that´s when you know you´re high up. We hiked around it to the far side.
Mr. clay hiles + lake + glacier
I was pretty ill so I just laid on the beach while clay went a bit more up. This is another lake that he found about 80m higher.
I am the tiny little black dot on the right hand side. The ranger station is at the other end of the lake. This was a gorgeous walk and we had awesome weather.
OK so this is me on the way up and it was rainy and I was very sick with food poisoning and altitude illness. It was lame, long story short, and we did 900m of height gain by foot after coming up 1km by little bus in an hour. Oh and it was COLD! 1 degree when we went to bed that night and that house was not at all insulating... many windows didn´t have panes and the walls had a gap before the roof. But the views, you know... it always ends up being worth it.
The lake! Glacier fed and quite near the equator... that´s when you know you´re high up. We hiked around it to the far side.
Mr. clay hiles + lake + glacier
I was pretty ill so I just laid on the beach while clay went a bit more up. This is another lake that he found about 80m higher.
I am the tiny little black dot on the right hand side. The ranger station is at the other end of the lake. This was a gorgeous walk and we had awesome weather.
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