{"id":619,"date":"2011-06-17T09:16:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amau.ca\/?p=619"},"modified":"2011-06-21T09:20:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T16:20:58","slug":"day-17-hualcayan-to-laguna-collicocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Day 17 &#8211; Hualcayan to Laguna Collicocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappingsupport.com\/p\/gmap4.php?q=http:\/\/amau.ca\/peru\/cullicocha2.gpx\" target=\"_blank\">GPX Track Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To preface our wake-up, let me just say that we always sleep with the tent door open, to minimize condensation. We woke up to the sound of a little girl&#8217;s voice: &#8220;hola&#8221;, &#8220;hola&#8221;. I opened my eyes to see a tiny girl &#8211; 4 or 5 years old, standing over me. &#8220;Carmelo?&#8221; she asked. Grudgingly, Alex and I woke up and got ready for the day.<\/p>\n<p>It was a very hard day indeed &#8211; 8.5 hours with 1450m elevation gain. I finished my daily rations at noon and regretted it. The views down towards Hualcayan and across the mountains were spectacular. We got a sense of how small Hualcayan actually is &#8211; a grass\/gravel main square surrounded by some houses, surrounded by vast farmlands. Throughout the day I was intrigued by the irrigation system &#8211; a network of cement or rock canals, about 1 or 2 feet wide that takes water from the lake far above and distributes it through the lands and into the village.<\/p>\n<p>It was a hard day for both of us &#8211; the longest yet (exculding summit days) and definitely the most challenging in terms of endurance. We moved slowly but surely up and up and up the switchbacks all day long.<\/p>\n<p>We were most happy when we finally arrived at Laguna Cullicocha with one hour to spare before sunset. We rewarded ourselves with 3 eggs each of scrambled eggs before moving on to dinner.<\/p>\n<p>We quickly and efficiently set up camp after dinner, just after sunet as it was getting dark. Journal written, 8:15pm, time for bed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0GPX Track Here To preface our wake-up, let me just say that we always sleep with the tent door open, to minimize condensation. We woke up to the sound of a little girl&#8217;s voice: &#8220;hola&#8221;, &#8220;hola&#8221;. I opened my eyes to see a tiny girl &#8211; 4 or 5 years old, standing over me. &#8220;Carmelo?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amau.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}