Cuyuja

Very first Ernie driving day

Playing at La mitad del Mundo (The half of the world). I only added this picture because  it's not worth seeing the  touristic parc the Ecuadorians made on the ecuador....

On the road baby !!!

The small town of Cuyuja with the crag on the very left

First place we head for is Cuyuja a very small town 70 km from Quito. Setting is high altitude (around 3000m) jungle. Nice bush camping near a river, town being 5 minutes by foot and the same for the crag. Of course first wake-up happens under the rain...

Bush camping near the crag

Cuyuja crag

Access to the crag 

At first thinking that climbing wouldn't be possible we finally discover that a nice roof protects the crag from the rain and except the very muddy access we had two days of good sport climb on a volcanic andesite rock surrounded with waterfalls, great ! The climbs were pretty tough for everyone, most of us were in this altitude only since a few days and also pretty much jet-lagged ! Beside of that the climbs are pretty awesome, long technical climbs with slight overhang.

Crag again !

View from the crag, pretty jungly !

Toby climbing

 We stayed two full days overthere with Ernie (the truck which is absolutely NOT a bus) in raining mode (there is a nice blue tent to be able to make the food in dry conditions...luxury trip :) ) and celebrated Tom's birthday, the leader of the group. Very nice party with some drinking games and dancing in the truck !

Truck dancing :)

English people learning caps :) Hard time for them !!