High point today - Lava Tower - 15,100 ft; slept at 12, 295 ft ( climb high sleep low for altitude adjustment) Walking from 8:30 to 2:30 - Shira Plateau Camp to Barranco site. Weather starts out warm and sunny
Felt the elevation a bit today. Was carrying more in my pack than the days before. BUt overall felt pretty good. Alpine desert and moorland. Unearthly landscape. Weird plants. Had lunch at lava Tower. Talking - again with the German/Jap/UK people (I'm the only American around ) - one of them reminded me that the Earth's circumference is larger at the equator and thus might make the "actual elevation" greater at the summit...funny - I had read about this -but forgot about it - and just last week I was teaching this to my kids at the TZ school!!
Climbed a ways up the Lava Tower; hail started ; came down; the rest of the hike was pretty much downhill - back to just a little higher elev than last night's site.
Raining ...for last hr or so of hike...still raining; we seem to be in a valley so I'm wondering if it will clear..Nimechoke (I'm tired)
Up around midnight to go pee....again - the sky is perfectly clear - and the moon is illuminating the mountain - everything is so still - I feel like I'm the only thing alive out here (ok - if I ignore all of these other tents)
Weather pattern seems to be - clear at night and morning - then cl0uds moving in for afternoon...not bad really I canimagine how hot it would be other wise....
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