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February 12th 2011
Published: February 13th 2011
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Snow Mountain
Day 7

Today's adventure is Snow Mountain, it's tallest peak is 18,000 feet. It is the furthest southern glacier in the Northern hemisphere.

In China many people don't have cars and taking the taxi is a very normal thing. But when you need a taxi for a long day you just hire a car and a driver. It is very cheap, I think we paid 150 yuan which is about 30 bucks.

Once we got into the park we had to take a bus up the windy road to the gondola chalet. The ride was about 20 min to get to the point where we got off. We noticed a lot of people were buying little cans of oxygen to help with the high altitude. There were a set of stairs that lead to a higher point on the mountain. I'm not sure how many flights but there were a lot. Tracy and I made our minds up that we were going to make it to the top despite how hard it was. We were at about 14,000 feet.

It is really hard at the to climb at 14,000 feet. Your heart feels like it's beating outside
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your body, your brain starts to slow down and you start to loose body coordination. Every flight of stairs we took we rested for a few minutes and recovered. But despite the challenge and no little cans of oxygen, we made it and it was awesome!

Tracy and I were quite the celebrities up on the mountain.... all the way up the Chinese people stopped us because they wanted to take their pic's with us. There are not many Americans in China, especially in the small city that we are in. We got a glimpse of what a famous person might feel like. lol

About 3/4 of the way down they had a spot where you could jump on an inner tube and hook on to 15 people down a sort of toboggan coarse. It was so much fun!

Spent the rest of the day shopping again....lol (I love it!)


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