The first picture is how I looked after returning from trekking in 5000 meters and higher for 9 days.
One of the harder treks in the world.
No tour guide.
No phone signal.
No shower. No change of clothes.
Two girls and I, with a couple of tents and just enough food to last us for 8 days. Each of us carrying a 20 kilo pack on our back.
And then, our cooking system breaks on the first night.
One of us gets sick on the third day.
And on the sixth day, a faulty detour extends our eight day trek into nine, as food rations start to run low and every micro habit of each person begins to irritate the others.
If the mountains have taught me anything, it’s to keep going.
It’s that once you start trekking enough, you rarely can go back. There’s nowhere to go but forward, one foot in front of the other.
And you do, until eventually you begin to descend down 1000 meters in 2 hours and you begin to see the shape of a small town way down below, the first sign of civilization in two and a half weeks. And you realize that you’ve made it back, again.
A hard, but rewarding trip. Hard because there’s a reason tour agencies line the streets of Huaraz, enticing you to use their donkeys and guides for this trek.
Hard because you learn very quickly how difficult situations can turn people into hostile enemies.
And rewarding because do you see the views?!
Also rewarding because I am learning how the work I’m doing with @john_wineland is starting to seep into my being.
One of my desires is to be washed by the feminine, in all of her.
And during this trip, there wasn’t a day that I didn’t feel ALL of her. The dark, the turbulence.
What in past would’ve knocked me sideways became a practice to stay grounded, to feel my breath and body, and to look at her and not get swept.
And for the first time in probably forever, I felt the powerful feminine. And I stayed held.
Just like the mountains have taught me to keep putting one foot in front of the other, I’m now learning to stay present, from one breath to the other, being grounded in the masculine for the feminine flow, playing in the aspects of polarity.
Anyways, the mountains are beautiful and they are powerful.