So, 2 weekends ago I went on a hike with Quetzal Trekkers - http://www.quetzaltrekkers.com/guathome.html. They're an all volunteer crew that leads hikes around Guatemala. They may not get money, but I think they rather enjoy punishing out of shape tourists up and down the many mountainsides of Guatemala. And so it goes. We made it up Tajumulco Saturday night in time to catch the sun dip into a sea of clouds far into the West, and arose early enough to climb the last 200m to the peak and share the first minutes of the morning with the same firey ball of gas as the night before. I guess we shouldn´t have had beans for dinner AND breakfast, eh?
It was truly a beautiful exerience to look up and down an entire range of mountains and volcanoes, into Mexico, and the depths of Guatemala. The clouds wrapped around the slopes of each volcanic formation like a down blanket, and our long line of international hikers zig zagged our way through them like a sure line of thread.
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