• Day 32: An uninspiring day

    May 16–17 in Armenia ⋅ 🌧 8 °C

    - Woke up to the rain
    - Rain
    - Rain
    - More rain
    - Even more rain
    - Waiting in tent for rain to subside a little before packing up and moving on
    - Got a tiny window to pack up the tent
    - 5km to the shelter where we had brunch
    - More rain
    - In cloud
    - No cows
    - No dogs
    - Many teams of horses
    - So much mud
    - Shrooms
    - Two people drove past and said hello - perhaps they were doing a supply run to stock up food etc in one of the farm outposts
    - Undulating terrain all day
    - Up
    - Down
    - Up
    - Down
    - Farmland
    - Mud
    - Mud
    - MUUUUUUUUD
    - Rain
    - Cloud
    - Mud
    - Views of clouds
    - Cold
    - Cloud
    - Wind
    - Final climb
    - Sooooo much mud
    - Too wet and muddy for a tent at the first potential camping spot so went onward a few kms
    - Found a rock outcrop by a river but not super great for pegging a tent down, then found a cool garden / paddock with leafless trees and softer ground - and no mud!
    - In a cloud
    - Very wet
    - Very cold
    - Had dinner and hot tea inside the tent for the first time (instead of outside)
    - It’s only 6:30pm - gonna be a long night 😝
    - Not much else to say about today! 😅 Was an uninspiring day for hiking! 🤪 but we made it!
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