January 12, 2015: Guagua Pichincha, hike and mountain bike ride
This was a very early morning breakfast at 5:30 so that we could get to the rim of Guagua Pichincha before the clouds rolled in. We didn’t quite make that, but we did have marvelous views of the eastern Cordillera and could smell the sulfur emanating from the fumaroles within Guagua! We then began our treacherous descent on mountain bikes from 14,000 feet back down to the hotel just below 10,000 feet: 4,000 feet of descent!
