Almost perfect closure
Yeah, the weather this weekend at Iztaccíhuatl was a lot better than the previous one. Allowing me to cover a decent amount of vertical meters at altitude in a short period of time.
Serch dropped me at Paso de Cortés so I could run from there to La Joya and then start the triple climb to the Esperanza hut site. The morning was great, a little bit chilly so my first lap across the snowfields was faster due to the hardened snow. I even got a few patches of ice at some steep sections, which made the walking a little tricky in my Yaktrax‘s but nothing too serious. As the day went by and it got hotter (by the 2nd lap), the snow started to melt so those sections became a little slower.
I met Serch while coming down from my 2nd lap, he was going to do the same route but at a slower, more enjoyable pace. While I started my 3rd lap up the mountain, some giant clouds began to set in and it seemed like the good weather was about to end. I hurried as much as possible and managed to arrive to the 4,400-meter mark before it started to get funky. Serch had just came back from the Grupo de los Cien hut and told me that the wind was blowing kind of hard up there. I opted to call it a good day of training and turned back to the car with him.
The totals were: 8 hours 59 minutes 55 seconds, 29.59 kilometers and 2,650 meters of climb and equal descent.
The rest of the photos are here or in the slideshow below:
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