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Annapurna III

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Tatopani to Ghasa

The morning after our marathon trek to Tatopani, Alexa dramatically declared that she needed a wheelchair to go down to breakfast and that she wasn’t walking anywhere that day. We had been considering taking a rest day in Tatopani (since we’d skipped the one in Ghorepani), but the more Alexa whined, the more determined we became to not give in to her tantrums. In the end, we decided to leave late and make it a short day. As we began our trek around 10AM, I began to question the wisdom of not taking a rest day as my calves screamed at me with every step, but after about an hour we all seemed to have walked off the stiffness of the previous day. [read on]

Annapurna Circuit II

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Poon Hill to Tatopani

We had planned to take a rest day in Ghorepani before the 7 hour trek to Tatopani because we wanted to climb to the top of Poon Hill for sunrise. Because we had to leave before 5AM to make it to the top in time for sunrise, we all went to bed early (8:00PM). Unfortunately, a group of locals decided to have a party next door and stayed up late drinking, singing and laughing. Just as they settled down around 11PM, a dog started barking and continued nonstop for over an hour. He finally stopped at around 12:30AM, just in time for one of the drunken revelers to pay a late night visit to his girlfriend who worked at our guesthouse and was sleeping just down the hall. I had just drifted off to sleep when I heard the load crash of a door slamming open and the sound of someone careening down the hall to the bathroom. [read on]