Sunday, December 2, 2007

First hike today

First off, let me start by saying that it is always interesting using a keyboard with buttons in different places.
Yeah, so we arrived in Quito, Ecuador on Friday night around 11pm. Pretty quick evening, checked into our hotel and called it a day.
The first part of the day yesterday was spent exploring the city.
Around 3:00, Kurtiss and I decided we were going to go find someplace to hang out. Luckily, we ran into some other members of our group (Ray, Steve, and Pete) and they pulled us back from the ledge. Not too far though, we ended up staying at the bar for about 4 hours and having a few drinks. Yeah, I think we each had 5 or 6 22oz beers and our tab was $21. How were we to leave.

So today we are going to about 14,000ft. For reference, the highest peaks in CO are at 14,400. This is just to stretch our legs... Should be a good time. We are going to a National Forest Reserve and starting at 10,000, so a 4000ft climb (to stretch our legs...)

Well, that´s about it. I have loads of pics and will try to post some tonight if my fingers aren´t worn out.

C ya,
GW

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