Wednesday 6 February 2013

Day 9  -  Move to camp 3

Most importantly, there was no flood in front of our tent this morning following the successful channeling yesterday. The group continued relaxed approach to getting up and off in the morning (lets hope that this is from choice rather than an inability to get organised quicker and that this does not become a problem later in the trip when we need to move quiker!) so I headed off with Mike (my tent-mate) to get some good tent sites at Camp 3.
The other groups had all left whilst we were waiting so we needed to move quickly (at least that was my expressed reason, I wanted to continue pushing it just as much) and headed off at quite a pace. I did make sure that we kept close to each other on the journey and Mike (depsite being 54 and Welsh was able to keep a pretty decent pace up). We passed the other groups on the way and got to camp just before weather turned bad.


On top of the col above Camp 1


We got set up and put the stove on for hot drinks for the others when they arrived.
I had agreed a radio check-in with Stu (our UK guide) but a combination of the weather and the mountain being in the way mean that it was pretty challenging to commmunicate as I could hear little that wasactually being said. Still his tone seem fine and he appeared to be able to heat what I was saying so we settled down to wait for the others.

Unlike the previous loudless days of strong sunshine, further up the mountain we had a lot more cloud and snow. The sun was still very strong when it shone through though. That afternoon saw a very rapid lowering of temperatures and snow as the following sequence of pictures shows:







Evening sees the first visit to the freeze dried mountain food - very impressed indeed. Great to have some real vegetables!
Food today:
Big bowl of porridge
Peanuts, cereal bar and a chocolate bar.
Stir fried vegetables and noodles Kung po style and then apples and blackberries in custard. This is the first visit to the freeze dried mountain food - very impressed indeed. Great to have some real vegetables! In fact, there happened to be an extra one in the stores left by the last group and I wanted a sneak preview of the food for later on in the trip. 

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