Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Big Mama Sajama


This is Sajama village, about 10 miles from the highway where we got off the bus and started walking. It is also where the park entrance is.
This is Sajama from one of its foothills. It is a huge volcano rising up to 21,400 feet. Ryan, the person pictured, and I hiked up a foothill that was 16,500ish feet high.
We set up camp at a conveniently located hot springs here at about 14,000 feet.

It's a nice view to wake up to, and the hot springs were about 25 feet away.

These are Sajamas little chilean sisters. Not quite as big as Sajama, but together they form an impressive trifecta of 21,000+ foot volcanos.


And here they are silouetted at sunset. The skys are crystaline and the air up here is the clearest I've ever seen. If only there was more of it.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It looks insane there. Just a little different than the dunes in Miller, huh?

Kritkrat said...

What's up with that circus tent?

Em Cee McG said...

it's slightly different. just a little bit.

Em Cee McG said...

The circus tent... well if you knew Ryan Plank, you'd understand.

Tomas Sullivan said...

nice tents