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- Wanda Rutkiewicz who has climbed many 8000m peaks, often without oxygen

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

A freezing welcome

Odi, Mokka and I had an amazing time yesterday hiking at Iztaccíhuatl. During the week we were able to see the volcanoes covered with snow so it was a good opportunity for Odi to see it for the 1st time.

My original plan was to hike towards Ayoloco hut but it was so cloudy that it would have been be impossible to see the glacier. Instead we followed the normal route to República de Chile hut and endured some fierce winds (80+ km/hr) on the West sides of the mountain. We found a decent amount of snow and were impressed by all the ice-covered rocks due to the strong chilly winds.

Total time for the hike, car to car, was: 5 hours, 31 minutes. We had a blast!

The rest of the pictures can be seen here.

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