Jess has already done a great long blog about our trek around the Annapurna mountains. As usual I havent been blogging as much and am playing catch up.
I know Jess didn't entirely enjoy our trekking experience. I realised on the first day that, really, she was doing it for me rather than for her, and that she might find it really difficult.
We had planned to do 10 days up to Annapurna South base camp that included a diversion up to Poon Hill, where we got up early and took all those great pictures.
In going the scenic route, we had already covered over 3000m of ascent and about 2000m of descent over 4 days by the time we got to Chomrong, where we could decide to carry on up, or turn back.
If we had carried on, we would have had 3 more days of ascent, including the final day ascending 700m to base camp, at 4300m.
This would have been really hard. Our reserves of energy and sleep were wearing thin, and ascending and that much in a single day and sleeping at that height would have put us at risk of altitude sickness. As it was, on the way down I got a killer headache, which I think was from the altitude.
Things might have been fine, but I don't think the two of us would have had a good time. I'm glad we decided to head back early. We had a really nice time up on Poon Hill, and the way back down was and once we'd decided to change the route, we could take things easier, and enjoy it more.
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