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Archive for September 8th, 2005

Finally in Karimabad

Posted by Claudio on September 8th, 2005

It was not difficult to find the bakery.

The summary for the day:
Distance: 40km
Altitude difference: 2500m. -> 2440m.
Biking time: 4h

An almost “Tragedione” day

Posted by Claudio on September 8th, 2005







Things got worst during the day. Cloudy since the morning, it got really
windy and lightly rainy. We were afraid of the rockfall from the side of the mountain. At some point, one small rock fell in front of Simone’s bike and finally, for the first time, he decided to wear the helmet. The road was uphill all the time and, of course, we had very strong headwind. Almost at the the top, we decided to catch a lift and we jumped on a tractor. After a few turns we realized that the downhill was starting. A pity we missed it. But the weather was too bad. The tractor took us to Karimabad. Nice because we skipped a very steep uphill :-)

Break for an energy bar

Posted by Claudio on September 8th, 2005



Today, we fell pretty tired. Probably because of this morning hike…

Pakistani truck!!!!!

Posted by Simone on September 8th, 2005

Really a desolated area…

Posted by Claudio on September 8th, 2005



Biking in the canyon!!

Posted by Claudio on September 8th, 2005

damn!!

Posted by Claudio on September 8th, 2005

Uphill… again. Even when cycling down

Passu glacier

Posted by Claudio on September 8th, 2005



We hiked up to the Passu glacier. These glaciers in Pakistan are really huge and impressive. The hike took longer that we thought, probably because of the altitude or because it’s not easy to estimate the distances with such huge mountains.

Hiking + biking day

Posted by Claudio on September 8th, 2005

Our plan for today is to wake very early, hike up to the Passu glacier, be back for lunch and then cycle to Karimabad (some 40km). We are not sure if the road will be only downhill, we hope.