Day 1 and 2 – In the bag

Yesterday we hiked about 5km to Mti Mkubwa Camp at 2650m. We are in the “montane forest” vegetation zone. The next camp is 7km away.

The pace is slow, in Swahili it would be “pole pole” pronounced “polley”. We cover 2km per hour instead of our usual 3km per hour. We have 5 guides hiking along with us and a support team of 25+ G-fighters who would hike ahead of us to set up camp. The G-fighters do the hard work! We truly appreciate what they do for us.

This morning we were all chatting about how the Internet cafe was a good investment. Lots of foot traffic through the night…