I have finally typed up my notes from on
Kilimanjaro ... I will post them as a post per day ... only because otherwise
it would be a 10 page post ... which I think would be quite overwhelming!!!
Pictures will come shortly ... I promise :) My little inserts in
italics are thoughts I've put in after the fact.
Day 5 - July 10, 2013
Day 5 I woke up, after my first good night of sleep (yay for
exhaustion finally kicking in), in a great mood and full of energy and super
hungry. Woohoo :)
We hiked 4.9km to School Hut at 4722m and then got ready for
what we thought was our afternoon of sleep before our midnight ascent
start. This was incorrect. It turns out that you don’t get to have an
afternoon of sleep after all. Boo
that. In fact, EPIC BOO THAT.
Instead, we arrived at camp just before lunch. Got set up (ps – I hate hate hate hate the
set up/pack up process. Sleeping bags
suck when you are freezing cold and dirty and they have to get stuffed into
their stuff bags and then fit into your bag.
Suck suck suck) for the afternoon sleep and were then informed about our
3pm acclimatization hike. Umm, we are
already at 4722m and we have to start hiking to the top at midnight … why oh
why oh why must we go for an acclimatization hike at 3pm?!!? Even better, after lunch we were informed
that we had 1.5 hours to nap. Hmph. I hate naps.
But I did it. I had the coldest
nap of my life. Well, actually, I just
lay in my sleeping bag thinking about napping.
I suck at napping.
Our 3pm acclimatization hike mostly just gave us a glimpse
at how tricky the steep scree descent is going to be. And we mostly all grumped about how we’d
rather be asleep and how cold it was.
But we all did it. That’s what
counts on missions like this! Do as you are told, drink water, walk slowly, get to the top. Period.
Went to ‘bed’ at about 5pm, when all was said and done. Very very very grumpy. I think I slept for maybe 2-3 hours MAX
before being woken up by a delightfully cheerful ‘Time to get ready, be in the
mess tent in 5 minutes’ at 11:00pm. I
won’t write in here what I responded with (very very very grumpy x10) but it
had something to do with 5 minutes being ridiculous ESPECIALLY since we had to
stuff those stupid sleeping bags back into their stupid bags!
I’ll continue from 11pm onwards as Day 6.
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