Mountain Madness

This set of photos bring us to our highest point, the town of Deurali, and most of the way back down. We climbed to 3700M, and by the time we got there it was cold, very cold. It rained on us a few times but we were incredibly luckily. Every time we stepped under the awning of our lodge for the night, it started to pour buckets, most nights it hailed. We must have had someone watching us, we chalked it up to good karma.

Warmth in many fashions.

Stream side chocolate and water break.

"We're in the mountains, this is great"

Crossing over eerie Avalanche chutes, with a stream running through it.

Fuel.

Mid mountain mending.

Suspended stone steps.

Spot the lizard!

Beautiful butterfly. 

Green valley.

Bootless rest stop.

Ridiculous suspension bridges.

"Wait, where are we?"

Vintage hiking ad.

Storm's a brewin'.

Safe from hail, cold from shower.

Hail madness. 

Big ice cubes.

Note the Umbrella...

Looking down towards Pokhara, low lying rain clouds in the valley.

Storm's still going strong behind us.

Our last clear view of the "fishtail moutain", any guesses how it got the name?

These are from the highest point we climbed to, no more trees, lots of snow, bare rock faces on both sides of us. It was also cold and windy, until the sun poked its head over the mountains.

We have still more photos to share, we will put them up as soon as we can.

We miss you guys at home a lot, but we will be home to see you all soon!

Off to Annapurna

By the time you read this we will be on the way to our trekking adventure on the Annapurna mountain. If you feel like googling where we're going, it's called the poon hill-annapurna base camp loop. It should take us about 15 days (we've given ourselves a more realistic 20) to complete the loop. Other travelers kept asking us if we had hiking gear, which of course we didn't, and then kindly reassured us that we could buy everything once we got here. We've blown a bunch of rupees on supplies and opted for some crazy luxuries like hiking boots, hiking pants, walking poles, special hiking socks and the list goes on and on, looking like walking north face ads, we're finally ready to go. We spent longer than we expected in Kathmandu but really enjoyed ourselves there. 

Luc in his new "marmot" sleeping bag. Like a big canker worm. 

Luc in his new "mountain hardwear" fleece, outside the best organic coffee joint in Kathmandu.

We took a rickshaw in Kathmandu, traffic is tight. This was roomy by their standards.

Normal day at a normal intersection.

Laid out, looks like a lot of stuff because it is.

Our bags all packed and ready to go. We're so matching it hurts.

This will be our last blog post/communicado for a while, there is supposedly an internet cafe somewhere along the way, but other than that you'll just have to picture a sweaty tired and dirty Ginger and Luc.