AFter a big breakfast of what they like to call an omlette, Id probably call it more a frittata, we decide to grab the mountain bikes and explore what we could around the hosteria. And for a brief moment it wasn´t raining, so we grabbed the bikes and headed down the road. We got a map from the ownder here that doesn´t really even classify as a map. There was a 6 mile loop around the property that he recommended following, and we didn´t think it would be that hard, we were wrong.
After crossing about 3 massive puddles that took up the whole road and truding through towns of mud we made it to the intersection and knew we were going the right way. Then the road just went up and up and up and up and up. I felt like we were climbing cotopaxi on our bikes. We climbed for about an hour and a half straight and not without obstacles. There are tons of dogs here and they all run after you and bark like they are going to tear you arm or leg off. Not cool, and thank gosh none of them did. On top of that with all the rain the road was just mud and deep icky gooey gross mud. So we had to hop off the bikes a couple times to get through it. Finally I said enough is enough when we had been climbing for an hour and half and were lost in the backroads of ecuador, and of course it was raining by this time. So almost 3 hours later we landed back at the hostel, wet, muddy, but all in all it was a fun time and a really good workout.
The boredom kinda then set in as I didn´t want to sit on the computer here or in my room and it was pouring outside. So Jean and I decided to have lunch and then pack our bags for Cotopaxi since we were gettign excited. I packed my bag, read, and hung out on the patio before some more people came to the hosteria and we had some conversation with them. One of them had just done Cotopaxi, so of course we had a million questions for him and it didn´t seem like he really wanted to entertaim them. Then again if i got up at midnight and climbed all day i probably would have been in the same mood. Though it was super exciting to know that he had done it and the weather was good! Though in his Austrailan accent he mentioned ´that hike is a bitch´haha oh boy!
So today we are going to have breakfast here in a little bit, then the guide is going to come to do a gear check and take us to Cotopaxi National Park where we will hike about an hour to get to the Refuge where everyone starts from. HAve an early dinner and get a little bit of sleep before we start the hike at midnight. So while you guys are sleeping and out partying, I´m going to be hiking THIS:
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