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Ynotisay · M
@reflectingmonkey Ah. That's a nice shot. I've had friends hike Nepal and they loved it. Looks like it would be hard to not enjoy that scenery.
Not crazy to get up where I took those shots. Maybe 1,750 feet of gain overall but there's a lot of descents where you lose what you gain. Great thing about the Eastern Sierra is a lot of trails start between 8 and 9K. So you can get up high relatively easily. I live at 7K so it's a lot easier. People coming from sea level usually get pounded the first day or two.
Not crazy to get up where I took those shots. Maybe 1,750 feet of gain overall but there's a lot of descents where you lose what you gain. Great thing about the Eastern Sierra is a lot of trails start between 8 and 9K. So you can get up high relatively easily. I live at 7K so it's a lot easier. People coming from sea level usually get pounded the first day or two.
reflectingmonkey · 51-55, M
@Ynotisay it was the same in Nepal, we didnt start at sea level, we were at least one third of the way up but we go way up and way down before reaching the final destination which was poonhill where we get the best view of Annapurna. I feel so emotional just writting about it. one of my most memorable experience in my life. an interesting part is that even at those hights there are villages and people and we slept always in villages. but at those hights there are no more cars, its so pristene, it looks like it must have looked thoudands of years ago with the addition of a few descreet hostels for trekkers and a fiew places to have tea and Dal bhat (traditional meal of usually vegetable curry, lentils, rice, fried spinach and papadam ).