Hiked Chirripo this past weekend.

Hardest physical thing I’ve done in years. None of us were prepared as you can see by our suffering faces and lack of clothing.

So glad we can just look at this and laugh now.

Day 1 we hiked 14 km up to base camp which is 11000 feet or so. Left at 6am and arrived around 3pm. I didn’t sleep at all due to the altitude/minor anxiety about the next day knowing how cold I’d be.

Day 2 we all left at 3am for the peak. This might’ve been the coldest I’ve ever been with the wind and light rain. It was a 5km hike to the peak. We were met with no view at all.

We hiked back down in the freezing dawn (at least with proper light)

Then we had a hot chocolate or 3 at basecamp and headed down to the bottom. Which was somehow harder.