Annapurna III
Saturday, June 9th, 2007Tatopani 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]