Just descended from the mountains - "back to civilization", incl. internet. Here is a short diary of sorts... Day 1 Endless climb. Fucking exhausting. My backpack is definitely overloaded - i've never been trekking in the mountains with that much mass on my poor back. Nothing i can do, though - it's not a trek for the sake of trekking, it's just the quickest way to get from Deqin county to Nu Jiang, and most of the equipment i'm hauling now i'll need once i get there. Took a wrong trail. It was following an irrigation canal (if one can call a stone trough attached to a side of a sheer cliff a canal) for a while, then when inside it (which didn't arouse more then a hint of suspicion on my part - wading is
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