Highlight of the trip! Even though I woke up with a ridiculously sore back and started my day by rolling around on the floor with Betty's tennis ball trying to work out the kinks in my neck and back, this day was by far the most spectacular! I popped a couple of Tylenols to fix my back and after a yummy breakfast of friend potatoes and vegetables we bundled up for snow and headed up Kynjin Ri. Even though we were trekking in snow (which, by the way, my trusty fake North Face hiking boots held up well in!) by the time we got about 20 minutes up we were warmed by the sun - so we paired down our layers. We hiked straight up between the crevasse of two mountains (with quite a few breaks since it was our only plan for the day) and made it to the top by around 10:30am. The view was incredible! We had a 360 degree view of snowey mountains, glaciers and jagged peaks - the perfect end (well turn around point) to our trek. The way down was even better. We took an alternate route and ended up walking along the top of a ridge back down to the village, past a structure with prayer flags, a memorial plaque, stone inukshuk-like structures (which our guides called "houses" - Sahadev said "your dreams would be filfilled if you built a house" - so of course we built little stone houses :). We arrived back in Kynjin Gumpa just in time for lunch, a nap, and to enjoy the rest of a lazy, sunny afternoon.
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