July 14 Cuartelwain Camp

July 14 Cuartelwain Camp
Today we drove six hours to the base camp. The Cordillera Blanca come verse by glaciers was the first amazing view of our journey. It contains the largest peak in Peru -Huascan. This was followed by our first views of the Corderilla Huayhuash. It has the second largest peak in Peru. 

The crew contains two folks from Taiwan, one from Taiwan who lives in Chicago, one from France, one from the Netherlands, one from Spain and on from Singapore. 

We made camp in a pretty area and won’t begin hiking until tomorrow. It is very cold here. I am glad that I brought lots of clothes. 

We heard a horrible story about a group that got here and their donkey porters didn’t show up. Their trip will probably be canceled. It sounds like the agency screwed the last trek the opposite way and too many donkeys and their wranglers showed up. It can be a 14 Walk to get to the camp. Half of them were sent home probably with no money. This could be their way of striking. Too bad for the unwitting trekkers. 

Dinner was pumpkin soup and a veggie omelette. It was really nice.   

We all went to bed right after dinner. I put a bottle of hot water on my sleeping bag and it was quite warm.  My sleeping bag did have a small problem the zipper wasn’t working. The guide waxed it for me and it worked slightly better.

I had a good nights sleep