I went on a hike up the San Pedro Volcano.
The lake is at a pretty high elevation, so
hiking can be difficult because of a lake of oxygen.
7 students and 2 guides went.
It took an hour just to get to the bottom of
the volcano at the visitor’s center.
Another middle-aged guy, Roger, and I were going really slow.
He was slow because of the altitude; me
because I’m out of shape.
We started
from the school at 6:30 am and at 8:30 arrived at the “mirador” – a viewpoint 1
km from the visitor’s center.
The entire
2 hours were uphill, but not too steep.
Roger and I decided we had gone far enough, so one guide stayed with us
and the other took the rest up to the top.
After ½ hour, Roger and I were ready to continue up.
We came to another pretty good viewpoint and
continued, slowly, up the hill.
After we
had gone about 2 km from the mirador and 1 km from the top, we thought about it
and decided we had really finished our hike.
We were at that point going up at a very steep angle – kind of like
going up steps in a house, sometimes more steeply than that.
We were very happy with our progress and
within ½ hour the rest of our group came back to our position.
We all walked back together although the pace
was a little bit fast for me – I got a blister on the way down.
No knee pain, fortunately!
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