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Kristin: Good morning.
It is day five now.
We have the hardest part of the trip coming up.
People coming down have said it's really steep.
I don't even really see how it's possible.
I think it's like hand and foot climbing, so on the top of the paths we should be able
to see an amazing glacial view and that is exciting.
All right.
Let's do this.
We made it.
Look at this, that's the path we just came from.
All hand and foot scrambling while rocks are like falling down, but we made it.
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Well if you ask me, this is a gorgeous lake, and that view from up there was, I don't know,
after spending two months in Patagonia, I feel like that was honestly better, and it's
so much more under the radar.
So you should get here while that's still the case.
This is Ala Kul Lake, and it is so blue.
I would just like to share that the theme of today on this trail seems to be slip and
slide everywhere.
Just a lotta loose gravel, but this is what it looks like.
So that's cool.
Still totally enjoyable just like Patagonia was, but be prepared for this.
And I think it's important to have a hiking stick for balance.
I just dared Baja to eat jam, honey, chocolate, and canned fish together.
Baja: [inaudible 00:02:13].
Yum, yum.
It's really tasty.
Woman: Oh that's good.
Get cheese on there.
Nasty.
Baja: Best hamburger from Kyrgyzstan.
I don't think I can share this.
Woman: Alrighty then.
We have reached camp site number five and it is in a pretty little forest.
Look at these flowers.
It's about 1:00, so it's an early day.
Yesterday was too, but honestly, my knees are like done, so I don't mind.
And those mountains are beautiful, too.
So, we are more than halfway through now.
This campsite has a bar.
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So now we've entered the Karakol National Park.
This is, as you can see, a base camp for people who climb.
So if you were a rock climber, you would start here, and those peaks are about 5,000 meters
plus and covered in snow, so you would be a badass.
So we just arrived at the campsite.
It's the end of day six and we're sharing it with some locals here.
One was licking my tent earlier because they liked the salt.
It was you.
They're so gross, it's covered in cow slobber.
You guys.
Turns out that these are my guide Baja's cows, so he's milking one right now and we're gonna
have some fresh milk.
Baja: It's just impossible for drink now.
Woman: Why?
Baja: Because I think she had] the baby two days ago.
And usually it's possible after the cow have their babies, it's possible to drink milk
after the five, six days ,because now it's just wrong, it's special for babies.
Woman: There's a cow licking it right now.
Oh my God.
I know what she wants.
There are cows licking my tent right now, and its kinda futile to try to stop them because
they just come back and keep licking it, so I guess I accept it.
It's just interesting hearing this like animal heavily breathing and licking the tent every
few minutes.
Sun is set.
The cows look like they've mostly gotten over licking the tent, and now they're laying down,
getting ready to sleep.
I'll see you tomorrow morning.
Good Morning.
It was a pretty good night.
Had a little wake-up call from the cows this morning, but this is a nice view to wake up
to.
I guess we're about to trek through some deep snow.
Baja: [inaudible 00:05:36] snow.
Because snow is soft and wet.
Woman: It is.
We made it to
the last pass.
Woo-hoo!
Aren't you excited?
Baja: Woo-hoo!
Woman: Thank you.
This is number six of six, so it's downhill from here.
Hello from camp number seven.
So we're done for the day with the hiking but not with the looking around because this
is beautiful.
It's time to fly.
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Okay.
It is bedtime.
See you in the morning.
All right.
Good morning.
This is day eight of nine.
We're actually gonna combine day eight and nine today and make day nine mostly a transit
day back to Bishkek and chill out.
Not bad.
Today was pretty much all flats, so we've got about an hour and a half left to get down
and then back to town.
Well guys, coming to the end of our trek now, so this could be like in eight, or nine, or
probably even seven day, depending on how you wanna do it.
And we have somehow crossed from Kyrgyzstan in the snowy mountains to, I don't know, Utah?
This is a really cool rock formation.
Anyways, thanks for coming along.
I really enjoyed doing this with you.
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Bye guys.