Day 81

On commence un peu tard car il fallait deterrer les sardines qui etaient enfouies sous la neige. Ensuite on passe un col sans aucune difficulte, mais les cols ne sont plus le probleme principal desormais, ils ont ete remplaces par les rraversees de riviere. On est plus bas dans la montagne donc il y a plus d'eau qui arrive. On arrive a traverser une des grosses rivieres en traversant separement trois de ses affluents, mais les ponts de neige commencent a montrer de grossignes de faiblesses donc bientot on ne pourra plus compter que sur les arbres morts. Ensuite la journee se passe plutot bien mais en fin de journee on est face a une descente extremement pentue et enneigee. Ca nous prends une eternite d'arriver en bas, mais on a eu le droit a quelques accelerations non souhaitees mais avec trail master on a a chaque fois reussi a faire un self-arrest avec le piolet donc pas de probleme. Ensuite on ete completement en dehors du trail et pour y retourner on a du passer dans une jungle et avec les sac a dos c'etait pas facile, premiere fois du trail que je me dis qu'une machette serait utile !

We started a bit late cause we had to dig to get our stakes back, cause they were under frozen snow. Then we do a pass without any difficulty, but now the main difficulty isn't the pass, they've been replaced by the river crossings. We're lower in the mountains some more water is coming. We managed to cross one of the biggest river and keep our feet dry cause we crossed three of the tributaries separately, but snow bridges are showing a lot of weakness signs so soon we will have to rely solely on logs. Then the day is easy but at the end of it we're facing a very steep snowy slope. Take us an eternity to reach the bottom of it, despite the unwanted accelerations that we had sometimes, but with trail master we always managed to pull a self-arrest with the ice axe so all is fine. After that we were completely off trail and to go back on trail we had to cross a jungle and with a backpack wasn't easy, i wish i had a machete !