Stephanie´s vacation !

What sunny , wonderful  and adventure days I lived on my  last vacation. It was a fact that I had to improve my climbing technique ,and I decide to expend must of the time of these free months to do it. But what I didn’t know was that  I would get something more than  be fitter. I used to climb three days a week ,most of them at Rocodromos wall ,but also I used to go to Monodedos boulder  with one of my best friend , Alejandra Romero , with her I trained really hard that is why now I have more strength and confidence .The days were perfect , full of light and blue skies . There always  were something new to learn  and also to find out!.Some days  we were like to go to Vertigo, which is a place in Tumbaco  were you find many interesting things to do , one of them was obviously climb ,but other  amazing  activity that I could practice there was  slack line .

I enjoy climbing but what I really love is to do mountaineering  , when I started doing it last year I was completely sure that I only wanted   to do mid- mountain  because I  considered that high – mountain was   dangerous ,but nowadays I know that I  like both .Even though  I was a little bit scared about high mountain  I had an objective , I wanted to climb Cotopaxi’s volcano on my birthday .The day we went to  Cotopaxi’s refuge ,Jose Ribas, it was completely crowded ;there  were  like sixty people from different countries .We wanted to go to summit as all of the  people that were there so we started to climb at twelve  am , it was really dark  but the sky was  admirably clear  ,we could see a lot of stars ,it was beautiful. I walked with my partners until the 5400 m but something happened!! , the ice bridge was broken and someone fell down inside the chasm! One of my friends was there , she was find and we was glad because of that .The bridge was an important crossing  that we should take in order to  keep walking to the summit ; no one who was back of her group could continue so we had to go back to the refuge . Obviously we didn’t reach the summit but because of these experience I started to like high- mountain; I will never forget it.

 

I am part of an interchange climbing program between Ecuador and Germany, these year the Ecuadorian people, including myself had to welcome them. We had a designed program with many activities like climbing natural rock walls, mountaineering, cycling and trekking. The first place we visited was Sigsipamba which is a natural rock wall; it is located in Pifo and it is a great place for climbing. The next place was Imbabura, there we went to Otavalo  ,Cuicocha’s trekking and we also climbed Imbabura volcano, it was the first time I climbed it!! It was great because I enjoyed so much the landscape , the parts we had to climb in order to get to the summit and obviously because of my friends ; I have  new incredible friends with whom I can  do what I like most and it is to enjoy all the wonderful places that my country have to offer and also practice my English  ! . I could know better my Ecuadorian friends  and I found out what great people they are .Until now I  had climbed Rucu Pichincha , Corazon and Pasochoa  with them but I couldn’t go to Cayambe because in these part of the story  classes began. I would like to continue traveling with them but I am no sad because I can’t , I am really glad because I could live a lot of amazing experiences and share the most enriching moments with incredible people  , my friends!!