Colca: Day 3

Ok, day three, this was kind of the biggie. 5am, we drank water, brushed our teeth, knocked the sleep out of our eyes and prepared to hike from apx 6,500 ft to over 10,000 ft, and the sun had not made a wink at us yet. The pack on my back had never weighed more, or so I thought then, that theory abruptly changed that with every step. It was AWESOME!!! We made it up--passed only by asses and the mules they rode up on--in less than two and a half hours.

Day one pictures--the descent: 82
Day three pictures--the ascent: 2 (at the top)