I'm very tired this evening. I've had maybe four hours of sleep in the last two days. Sean and I were picked up at 11 pm last night and driven to the entrance of the Volcan Baru national park, where we started climbing before midnight. My memory is hazy about the number, but our starting altitude was something like 1800 meters above sea level. After five hours of climbing an alternately gravelly, sandy. rocky, and muddy jeep trail we reached the summit at around 3400 meters, having hiked 13.5 kilometers. We hung out for a while, took some pictures, and returned
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I'm a 33 year-old native Tenneseean, and a graduate of U.T Knoxville in Psychology. I live half of my life outside in the southern Appalachian wilderness working with at-risk teenagers at the best wilderness therapy program around, Phoenix Outdoor (for enlightenment about what I do for a living, check out www.phoenixoutdoor.com). My experience living out of a backpack in my chosen field has hopefully prepared me for my latest adventure: three weeks in Central America. I am creating this blog primarily for family and friends, but I hope that others may benefit from my experiences over the next few weeks.
