stopped by the snow

Huiuiui, it is cold tonight. We are a staying in a secluded valley in dircetion the the pass we were supposed to take if the fourth would be open - or passable. It isn’t, and so was the one today. We got up again like all the other days, first tea then warm washing water, breakfast and then ready to rumble. We turned right instead of straigt ahead taking a trek only nomads use. It was a beautiful walk under the sun,
even if this early morning Tenzing thought it would rain. We are really incredibly lucky with the weather, let’s cross the fingers that it stays like this the next three days! We ascended but were blocked at around 4600m by snow that the zyklone brought. There hasn’t been anyone yet crossing and we didn’t know how deep the snow was up there. There was already a lot where we were so we decided to turn around since we just wanted to reach the top and come back. So we had an early lunch and then were back at the campsite at 1:15 already. I didn’t mind, we could read in the sun for an hour, then the wind got too chly and the warm washing water arrived. At around four coffee and some
biscuits, and then the temperature dropped. It started to rain a bit, too. Tenzing asked us if we wanted to combine the two next days in one very long day so we would have a day more in Thimphu, but we decided to stick at two other walking days with around 18km tomorrow and 13km on the last day. We will sleep in lower grounds so it will be warm again, yippie!Read more