climbing el volcán villarica!

soooo....first of all i would like to say that my outfit that i climbed the volcano in was pretty awesome - leggings with running shorts and knee high socks that i bought the night before (a 2 pack shared with natalie). anways, i woke up at 5:45 to be ready to go at 6:30. we went and got our rental equiment and headed to the volcano!!!

we hiked about 15 minutes to get to the ski lift and then took the ski lift the first 1400 meters. then we hiked to the top! it took about 4 hours to get to the top and about halfway through our hiking our guides (there were 3 guides and 11 hikers) put on our "crampons" so that we wouldn't slide on the icy snow....hahaaha

pretty cool huh??? we made it to the top and had about 25 minutes to explore. the inside of the volcano was black and i didn't see any lava...

going down was the BEST part because we slide down on our bottoms!!!!!! we buckled on a tarp type thing on our bottoms so that we would slide better and not get as wet and then we used our ice axes beside us as our brake. it was sooooo fun!!!! and i would totally recommend it.

it only took us 1 hour and 45 minutes to get all the way down.... slightly less than the 4 hours to get up.

the rest of the afternoon I got to explore the city of pucón, buy lots of goodies, and then we had a nice dinner for the whole program that evening. we played cards and enjoyed our cabaña during the evening too. good times all around.

pucon! - VOLCANO (81 photos), by Sarah Moredock

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la ciudad de Pucon (59 photos), by Sarah Moredock

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