Leaving Jungle sceneries we head to San Juan El Acantilado a crag near the Chimburazo mountain at pretty much 4000 meters height. The topo was pretty approximative and we lost a few hours trying to find the crag riding Ernie through dogie roads... I think some locals have been kind of surprised to see such a big truck driving through their tiny farmer village... We ended-up bush camping on the side of a road before finding the crag a few hours later the next day.
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| Where is this f*** crag ?? |
The crag itself looked crap at first sight but finally was offering good technical pitches still on the same andesite volcanic rock. Again we haven't seen any local climbers...it looks like the climbing community in Ecuador is not that big, not very surprising considering the country poverty.
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| After hours of research we're there, the crag is underneath us :) |
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| Breakfast |
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| Cooking ! |
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| Local farming kids |
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| San Juan Crag |
While most of the group was enjoying cragging two of us went to try to tick the Chimburazo. Unfortunately one of them suffered from altitude sickness at around 5000m and they had to abandon their project. Indeed our acclimatization was not the best ever after having spent a few days at a few hundreds meters height in the jungle...
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| The massive Chimburazo 6268m |
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