...and the hiking begins

A three hour drive on bad dirt roads (well 2 hrs on them after 1 hr on broken pavement.) we made final adjustments to pack and duffels and headed up the trail. We would meet the pack burros in Llamacorral later. Starting off at 9100 feet, we hiked pretty leisurely to llamacorral at 12000 feet in 3.5 hrs. Josh and Adrian hike much faster than me, but I maintained my pace of 2.7 mph. 15 minutes after arriving, MY burro arrived first, trotting in ahead of all the others. J and A walk faster, are faster on mtn bikes, out-eat me but by god, my burro was fastest. Feel great at 12500 feet. Finally got a chance to call janene on the sat phone. Really good to hear her voice, if only for a couple minutes. Once the sun is down,it gets cold fast