Day 10 – To Yanapaccha base camp
We had a long day of hiking today – 1.5 hours down from Pisco base camp to the valley and then 5-6 hours to Yanapaccha base camp. We met some Canadians down in the valley and I was happy to see that they weren’t being guided. It’s a whole difference experience when you have to carry all your weight on your back and set up/tent-to camp yourself as opposed to others doing it for you.
The first half of the trail to Yanapaccha base camp is on the highway-of-a-trail to Laguna 69. However, the second half was unmarked and went through alpine meadows filled with cows. We were very happy to finally arrive at a site marked by large cairns on a slab/rubble field giving way to cliffs below and with a view of the Huandoys, Pisco, Chocoraju, and Laguna 69.
We later found out that this was the old route up (we were using a 2003 version of the guidebook after all). We found out that the new route takes the road much higher from the valley bottom, with less hiking needed to access the glacier.
We went to bed later than wanted, around 7pm, ready to wake up at 1:30am the following day to climb Yanapaccha.
| Published on June 10th, 2011 | | Posted by admin |