Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Hike

Perhaps the toughest difference between India and Southeast Asia is that in south Asia we can not fly out to our sites in helicopters. This resulted in us having to hike for two days to get to the base camp.


Getting ready to set out.


We hiked through fields of grain.



This is where I slept at the intermediate over night camp. We were lucky and it did not rain that night.


I am not going to lie. It kicked our butts. I am proud of the accomplishment. While I was certainly not the fastest hiker, I was always somewhere near the front, which is not bad for a civilian science geek.

6 comments:

Damien Huffer said...
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Shawn P. McMurray said...

I know that camera perspective is always somewhat different, however, the trail in the second shot looks like more of a "shortest route between two points" seemingly steeper than something you would want to walk up very often.

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Chloe Iverson said...

huhuuhuhu.. I wanna go back on camping.. I did this before 5 years ago but I temporarily stopped it now..

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