Saturday, November 28, 2009

Sorata

I put the first part of our bike trip on bikepacking.net.
Link here



Monday, November 23, 2009

Heading home

Last night of this extended vacation before a 36 hr enduro air port a thon to get back to Anchorage. It´s been an amazing trip. Packed a lot in that´s for sure. The Illimani / Qusima Cruz traverse was an increadible route with all it´s many ups and downs. Those Andes I tell you... Since then we´ve gotten a taste of the Altiplano rainy season in Sajama which basically consisted of ¨run but you can´t hide¨ hail and lightening storms, then after that some much needed down time hiking into warmer climes in the Yungas.
Photos soon!

Monday, November 02, 2009

onward

Back in La Paz after a great 4 day loop around Sorata. No pictures to post.. sorry. I dont trust my memory card to sketchy public computers!

Basically climbed all day to 13,000´and took an abandoned road that short cutted the tops of numerous valleys and ridge lines over to another village. Then came back on a low road which contoured all the valleys we passed over. Super Dramatic vertical relief.

Julie is fighting a stomach bug and I´m already on Cipro for the same... so we are back in La Paz resting and re-stocking up for a 10-12 day trip to Cochabamba via the south slopes of Illimani and the Quisma Cruz range.