Pico Duarte

So, i have climbed to the top of the tallest peak in the Caribbean! Pico Duarte (look it up).

It took 7 of us 4 days, 5 mules and 15 pounds of rice to reach the summit and come back down. It was the most physically demanding thing i think i have ever done, but definitely worth it and i cant wait to do it again!.

The first day we hiked 4 kms. to a cabin where we camped for the night. The next night we hiked 24 kms to the peak, but it was too cloudy to really see anything. The next day we hiked down 14 kms. to the Valle de Tetteros, which is a really cool valley with rivers on both sides, very picturesque. The next day we hiked down the nearly 20 kms. back to the base. We actually ran most of the way down the mountain, it was too steep to tiptoe down so to reduce the destruction of my knees we jogged down pico duarte, haha! So much fun it was like a video game, trying to keep our feet under us.

Each night we had rice and solomi for dinner, and each morning we had hot cocoa, boiled bananas and solomi. We had to drink out of the rivers, which means yes......i ....drank.....from...a....river. You would think that all the times that i got sick from merely looking at faucet water in this country would deter me from sticking my head under the river and sucking in all the bacteria, haha. We also bathed in the rivers....but we did not drink and bathe at the same time, we made sure to always drink up stream....lol.

All in all it was an incredible trip, im trying to attach some photos. Enjoy.