Written by: Cathie
Sunday, September 16, 2007

At dinner last night it started snowing and by the time we went to bed there was quite a thick blanket of snow pellets – little balls of snow/ice.
Not much extra fell during the night as we awoke to the same white carpet that hadn´t melted. We have been very lucky with the weather, so far everything has stayed dry. The snow didn´t turn to sludge so walking was easy. In fact it looked like our little campsite was the main place that the snow fell – strange.

We set off at about 8am and once again tackled a very steep up first off.
Just the one big mountain pass – our final one – before a big down of about
2 hrs. On the ledge overlooking the camp you could see to your right 2 lakes, a glacier and the steep killer pass out of Hyayhuash and to your left the straight walk out the valley floor (which will probably be the way we go). A brilliant photo op as there was a section of cloud hovering above the lake with blue sky on top surrounding the glacier. We are planning to stay here for the 2nd half of today and all tomorrow which will be our 2nd rest day. On arrival the weather was great so after setting up our beds we braved the icy waters and washed off all the dirt accumulated from the dusty path down to camp. A brief moment in the tent changing into warm clothes brought my core temperature back to normal and awoke a lunchtime hunger.

Satiated and sleepy Marayka and I (new tent buddies) crawled into ¨the worm¨ (our tent) to rest and write diaries. It´s coming over cloudy and windy and has been predicted rainy for our rest day. Fishing is on the agenda for tomorrow as is a traditional hungy style earthen cook up. Trout is the local catch here so we are looking forward to quite a feast.

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