Pea Soup & Failure
Sunday I had a special limited access ticket to climb Machu Picchu mountain. Obviously I did not fully research it. The elevation gain is 3,608, far beyond my limits, particularly when you start at 7800 and need to get above 11,000, but I did not determine that until writing this.
And, adding to that it was totally in the clouds the whole way. Pea soup. Well, at least until it turned into just rain. For those of you that hike, have you ever been on a trail that never stopped going up at all? Just up and up, mostly on steps. Cool that they were 500-800 year old steps, but steps none the less. The guide books said allow 2 hours. I went 1:15 before quitting, so I will state that I was well over half way. And no one can prove otherwise, right? And the many 20 year old’s just kept going.
But, you can see I was able to shoot many great flowers while resting along the way.
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| The valley far below |
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| Looks like a Begonia that we purchase at the nursery. |
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| in the fog |
 600 year old steps. On and on they went, never ending it seemed. |
| Cannot figure out how to rotate on this medium, but this is a good shot of the never ending steps. |
