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| To drop 1,000m from 3,500m of páramo to 2,500m at Otavalo, I took a camioneta (truck-taxi) 500m up to 3,000m where I started climbing to the trailhead (above) at 3,500m. |
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| Clouds over Volcán Fuya Fuya |
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| Bromeliad city |
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| Mmm -- singletrack at last! A little sloppy and ripped up by motocross bikes, but pretty sweet nonetheless. |
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| Into the clouds |
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| Wishing for some Pam (tm) cooking spray here, but the lower I got, the drier it was. |
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| Abandoned shepard's shack in a clearing -- looking back up, I've dropped out of the cloud zone. |
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| a well worn trail |
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| Volcán Cotacachi emerging a low cloud deck |
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| Newly "tilled" fields -- almost all is done by hand. Note the field in the center where it is actually too steep to turn the soil over, pretty much vertical |
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| Volcan Imbabura in the clouds behind, Lago San Pablo to the right (town and lake), and to the left you can see the edge of Otavalo -- good vantage for seeing the city. The shot below is slightly left (west-ish) of the shot above, with all of Otavalo in view. |
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absolutely awesome ride, especially given the altitude, 3500m = 11482 feet! Yikes! How is your breathing after a ride like that at altitude? But I guess you must be adjusting after a few months. Thanks for the spectacular pictures. Best
ReplyDeleteThanks again, Jordan ...and happy belated birthday!
ReplyDelete--jc