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Cotopaxi's Sunny, Snowy Lower Slopes
... the heavens, sailing serenely above the mere mortals below.
I don't have a head for heights, but with the thin air on a mountainside my mind is turned more to simply breathing and putting one foot in front of the other, fears of the altitude disappear as I stare at the summit and make my way towards it.
This is what Cotopaxi got me thinking about.
I never climbed it.
And I'm still ...
Cotapaxi Climb
... and when the wake up call came at midnight it took several others in the group to shift me (I was like the night of the living dead). We all got dressed and donned the gear (you must ensure you get in the last minute toilet trip before you put on the harness!), then had a bit of breakfast (well two pieces of dried bread for me). The guides said the weather was looking perfect so at 1am we all trudged out past the toilet block and started heading up a morraine by the side of ...
Acclimatisation Trekking and Otavalo
So to kick off the main part of the trip we were doing one week's of acclimatisation trekking (and a bit of shopping – integral for Cotapaxi preparation actually).
The first day we headed north along the Pan American Highway, crossing the equator to Cuicocha Lake. This is a volcanic caldera (a depression in the ground created by the collapse of land after a volcanic eruption) is about 3km and it was formed only 3100 years ago by a massive volcanic eruption. ...
Nieudana proba wejscia na wulkan
... Parku Narodowym Catopaxi (okolo pol godz drogi). Plan byl taki, ze z glownej drogi dojde do schroniska, znajdujacego sie na wys 4800m, z ktorego w nocy mozna zaczac wspinaczke na szczyt wulkanu (5900m). Wg tego co wyszperalem na sieci mialo to byc ok 4-5 h dralowania, ale gdy dotarlem do glownej bramy (po pierwszych 7km) zobaczylem znak, ze do schroniska jest 35km. Nie tracilem rezonu, zaplacilem 2$ za wstep do parku i liczacna ...
Cz Cotopaxi !!!
... muzem podniknout 2 denni vypravu az nahoru!! Samozrejmne jsme se hned zeptali jak je to narocne a co to obnasi. Pani nam rekla ze se musime aklimatizovat a ze si mysli ze to pro nas bude OK. Drujy den jsme ...



