 001 - Some stuff I needed to go for a little climb. |
 002 - Goodbye to San Francisco! |
 003 - Hello Amsterdam! |
 004 - Kilimanjaro is just a hop away! |
 005 - Springlands Hotel, the land of small beds for small people. |
 006 - A typical bathroom in a typical hotel. |
 007 - I tried to engineer a bigger bed. |
 008 - The front of Springlands Hotel. |
 009 - Off for a walk down the Springlands road. |
 010 - No, really, we're not in Kansas anymore. |
 011 - I'm hoping this weather will clear before I start climbing! |
 012 - Africa's version of Area 51. |
 013 - I found the house that Jack built. |
 014 - A rice field. Not pictured: the huge guy with the machete standing about 2 feet away from me. |
 015 - My hike led me to a big tree. |
 016 - Here's the tree. Humorously enough, my first hiking camp would be called "Big Tree". |
 017 - Black and white monkeys were hiding in them thar' trees. |
 018 - I would have climbed up for a better shot... |
 019 - But the monkeys had mad skillz I did not. |
 020 - So I was forced to just make monkey sounds from the ground far below. |
 021 - One of the hotel guys showed me how big bugs in Africa are. |
 022 - But enough pedestrian, I had a mission. |
 023 - And that mission started here, in this harmless looking clearing. |
 024 - We took a trip through the rain forest. That would be a forest ... where it rains ... constantly. |
 025 - But despite the rain, I could still follow this small trail. |
 026 - Which eventually led to the "Big Tree" (Mti Mkubwa) camp. |
 027 - This is the "real" big tree. |
 028 - I slept in my tent while my mountain guides slept in that strange green hut. |
 029 - All too soon, the day passed and it was time to go. |
 030 - Down this very misty, wet rainy trail. |
 031 - Into the land of the lost, where strange moss grows on the trees. |
 032 - As we ascended, the rainforest yielded to the pine forest. |
 033 - And the clouds started rolling in. |
 034 - Before I knew it, there were clouds everywhere. |
 035 - But we still made it to the Shira 1 camp. |
 036 - All the camps had nice little bathrooms nearby. |
 037 - Here's a shot of the actual mountain across the Shira plateau. Notice the clouds... duh. |
 038 - Angy desert buzzards were waiting for my eventual demise. |
 039 - But I flummoxed them by having afternoon tea. |
 040 - And then retired to my palatial tent to look for the mountain. |
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