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| Group at top of Pico Duarte |
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| View from top of Pico Duarte |
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| Last night on roof |
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| Last night at base |
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| View from the top |
As usually happens at the end of our trip I am behind in updates. When the trip passes the halfway mark it always goes superspeed. I hope to write some for the time we've spent here...but we'll see.
Quickly:
- Everyone made it to the top of Pico Duarte: a 24 km trek to a peak
3087m above sea level, done in just over a day
- everyone walked the first 8km.
9 then took mules for part/all of the rest of the way up
- 14 people walked the whole thing: John-Mark, Nathan, Mitch, Evan,
Ian, Peter, Jeremy, Siebs, Karina, Juliet, Kate, Rachel, Megan and I-we all enjoyed an incredible view at the top
- we all went white water rafting the next day (yesterday)
- we returned to the base safely last night
- today we leave for the hotel where we will stay until we leave the DR on Friday afternoon
- Lord willing, we will return at midnightish on Friday night
- we have had SIX needles to the behind in total on this trip.
Jeremy has had two (a second one last night), Jake has had two,
Rachel and John-Mark have each had one. We've been to the clinic and hospital multiple times
in the past two weeks for various ailments.
Many of them are bacterial infections and it seems as though
we have everything under control,
but it's been an adventure!
- last night, our last night at the base, many of us slept on the roof ;) Rachael
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