6:30am wake up call. Everyone seemed to sleep well. Most woke around 12:30am for a bathroom break (Dev and I included). I felt so rested when I woke to run to the Portapotti that I was sure it was nearly time to wake up. It took me over an hour to fall back asleep. Woke again around 3:30am for another run to the Portapotti. Woke for the day around 6am feeling totally rested.
Breakfast was a local grain porridge, toast, bacon, eggs, fruit, and hot drinks. By 8:10am we were all fed, packed and heading out of camp.
Today the hike was shorter but much steeper.
Most people started the day with two poles to help steady themselves on some of the steep sections. For those of you who have hiked with us in the past, today's hike was similar to the hogsback on Mount Baker or some of the steep sections on Goat Mountain (except today our hike was about 4.5 hours long).
Lunch today was about 500ft below the Shira plateau on one of the few broad sections of the ridge which we followed for the majority of the day. Lunch was a nice leek & tomato soup followed by pasta, fish sticks, chips, veg, fruit, cookies and hot drinks. Following lunch we made our final push up to the Shira plateau where within minutes our camp came into view.
Following a brief descent we were once again welcomed into camp by the cheerful singing and dancing of our porters and guides. Devin (having hiked ahead with the faster people on our team) welcomed me to camp as well, pointing to our tent and advising me everything was already unpacked and ready.
It is 3:18pm now. Since arriving in camp I have stretched, washed, and changed into some clean dry warm clothes. Though it is still quite warm when the sun is out, many big puffy clouds now fill increasing proportions of the sky and a wind has started to rise up from the valley below.
It is tea time now so I will wrap up this entry. Hugs and kisses to all!!!
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Location:Machame camp to Shira camp
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