Our Everest

We had heard from locals and other foreigners that there was a mountain range about an hour outside of our city with some pretty nice hiking. However, the first 5 months we have been here we have been too busy to visit. Luckily, on a recent Saturday, we set aside time to find this area and “conquer our Everest”. Not sure what we were thinking, the altitude and terrain here is considerably different than hiking the greenbelt in Austin. In the end, it was possibly one of the hardest hikes we have ever been on…but we had a blast. The scenery was amazing and aside from the 2 guys we met at the Buddhist temple, we didn’t see a single soul!

Enjoy 🙂

A Tibetan Buddhist temple. We parked our car here and didn't see another person the whole day.

A Tibetan Buddhist temple. We parked our car here and didn’t see another person the whole day.

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Frozen river cutting through the mountains.

Frozen river cutting through the mountains.

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We made it to one of those bumps on our left.

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Hot chocolate break!

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5 hours later... heading back to the car!

5 hours later… heading back to the car!

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China - 1, Danny - 0

China – 1, Danny – 0