Another weekend, another adventure...

A big benefit of studying abroad in Merida, Venezuela is all the extreme sports and mountain climbing/hiking opportunities we have.  So of course we had to go climbing in the mountains.  I went on a trip hiking in the mountains for a couple days with six other Americans.  We wanted to save half of our money so we opted to not to the trip with a guide because our usual trip guide over charges us.  One of the guys in our group got a map and we planned it out.  We rented gear and bought food to last over a couple days on our hike to the peak named "Pan de Azucar."  Unfortunately, we didn't end up making it to the top.  Once we got high up in the mountains, in the clouds, it started to downpour all day and night long.  It also got very cold, as in Minnesota cold.  Which I didn't think was possible here.  Nevertheless, we managed to still have a lot of fun.
I'd never been this high in the mountains before.  On our first night it was so foggy we couldn't see twenty feet in front of us.  Little did we know we were in the middle of a vast range of mountains.