After breakfast and a stroll around town, we broke out walking sticks, donned our backpacks and started the first day of trekking leaving Jiri at 0930.
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| Ramesh, Harold, Russ, Jeff, Mike and porter Gidi |
We started at about six thousand feet and topped our at about eight thousand on trails like you see. Needless to say, this old man was huffing and puffing to keep up with the younger guys.
Our guide, Ramesh, found a nice little wild strawberry patch for us to to take a break and have a snack before heading down the other side of the hill to Shivalia, our destination.
I thought going up was hard but going down was even worse in a way. Not so much of a cardio workout, but tough on the knees and legs. We used our walking sticks to good advantage here
There were many rhododendron bushes and even small trees along the way but found only one in bloom.
After the tough climb we were eager to check into our teahouse at 1445.
After a cup of coffee, I was hoping to take a shower but decided to work on this blog entry instead. No internet so made this up as a memo and hope to copy and paste when the power comes on.
Power was off when we checked in and has not come on yet so no WiFi. Hope to have power before too late so I can post this update.
Power, and WiFi came on around 1800 so am gong to give it a go.
Well, WiFi was too slow to post and internet connection was little better so will try again tomorrow.
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