TRIP TO MOUNT KENYA
July 11-13, 2009

Arrive and rent out a great banda right outside the park entrance.








Get up early








Check in

And snap the pre-hike photo

We start out as a group of seven, and soon start to break all the hiking rules. After we hike a bit and get some closer views of the peak.


One person turns back early, soon followed by another.
Now we're down to five, and then the clouds roll in, and roll in thick.

We wander into a big valley with an old camping hut.

And outhouse!

Our group of five segregates into two groups, one with the extra water and map, and the other with, er, their wits(?). As we leave the valley, the unmarked trail gets harder to discern, and soon the rock walls and fog permanently separate the two groups. Attempts to find the trail and yawp into the wild prove fruitless, and Stefan and myself (the lost) decide the best bet is to return the big valley, as we know we find the trail back from there.
We arrange some rocks outside the ole shelter and leave a note in case anyone from the other groups comes back searching for us, and make our way back the way we came.