Imbabura

I haven't been writing, I think because there has been so much else to do.
This weekend I climbed the Volcano Imbabura with Taavi, my exchange student Friend from Estonia. The climb was pretty crazy, and the accent alone took us about 7 hours. Imbabura is not really that big when compared with other mountains in Ecuador, but it is still taller than any mountain in the continental US, and summiting was very tiresome. The last 100 meters or so is a scramble up mud and rotten rock, and some parts are steep, about 80 degrees. Just those last few hundred feet made the climb the most exhausting, and we rested at the summit (which is over 15,000 feet) for about half an hour.
It was a really cool experience, but unfortunately there wasn't a view at the top, as the mountain is almost always covered by clouds.