Day 18 - February 16, 2010 - UP

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Hille to Ghorepani

It was an early morning, we left at 7:45 just after breakfast. We walked up and up and up and up, then we took a break and walked up more, we had tons of elevation to gain. There were hordes of people on the well maintained trail, steps and set stones were everywhere. I guess they had to be well maintained or else they would wash out, plus the towns must receive good money from the tourists passing through. It was odd seeing so many people all around us after being in the deep backcountry on the other side of the Circuit.

It was really nice not having to walk in snow anymore. As we made our way along an odd feeling crept up on me, being with this "herd" of people made me feel like just another tourist. I'd always thought I was different than everyone else on the trail or at least I'd tell myself that.

We stopped for lunch after the massive elevation gain, the stop took nearly 2 hours. The place we stopped to eat had many other people there ordering "Western" food that required more prep time and slowed down our dhal bhat.

After lunch we hiked about another hour and a quarter. There were so many massive buildings build out of stone on this side. Ghorepani had so many beautiful and huge stone hotels. The place we were staying had an awesome 55 gallon drum wood burning stove.

We had quite a bit of daylight left so Khem brought out his ropes and we practiced and set up belays and slacklines inside the hotel. I had veggie momos for dinner with chapati bread and milk tea for dessert. It was a really early night, we planned on getting up at 5:30 to see the sun rise on the top of Poon Hill.






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