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Cold nights and trouble during the downhill to Chincheros...

13 sep. 2010
🇵🇪 vanuit Peru

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Woke up this morning, after a very cold night with snow inside the tent. All the water was frozen on the tent, and when I scraped it off from the tent I was able to have my own snow-ball fight inside my tent... temperature inside the tent was at 7 in the morning 1 degree C. The sun started to shine over the hills, and slowly the snow melted and turned into water. Time to wake up and prepare for a day cycling, the first 10 kilometers were up, and then about 50 kilometers downhill. Unpaved roads, so be careful because the turns and bends are full with gravel and sand, that might make your bike slip. Unfortunately this happened to Dolf, and he is now on his way to the hospital in Andahuaylas. It does not look good, maybe he broke his arm, or dislocated his sholder...

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after this accident everybody took it a bit slower and were impressed how dangerous it actually is. High speed on these roads is not good and it might be the end of the trip when you fall. Beter be safe then sorry, and make sure that I reach Ushiaia. After the downhill we had a nice lunch at a little bridge, food was good like always, but again those sandflies were terrible again. So after a quick stop I decided to move on and start with the rolling part of the trip for the next 20 kilometers, and then start with the 15 kilometer climb to about 3000 meters, which is an ascent of about 800 meters. Road was ok, some parts were bad, but the worst were the sandflies that constantly were around you when you were going to slow. Important to speed up a bit, so there little buggers were gone. After a long and warm climb I reached the hotel where we were going to stay. Hotel is ok, little small village, not much to do, but ok. Tomorrow we will have a long climb again to 4200 meters, and again a long downhill. Hopefully all will be ok, and no more injuries during the downhill... we will see tomorrow.

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Marije
16 sep. 2010, 16:19

Pffffff zwaar hoor broertje !! Ben trots op je ! Hou vol !!!!!

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