Photos from Day 2 :)

It was a cold, damp morning out there when we awoke...as you can tell, A has yet to get out of the tent as I fire up the stove :)


A finally got out of the tent (and the toasty warm sleeping bag :) and headed up a nearby hill, presumably to get her blood pumping :) You can see how our campsite is situated - between the wall and a stream. We are packing down...


...trying to dry everything out.


This is the view of the village from the top of the hill that A climbed...


For some reason the ditch across the road from our campsite is an old shoe depository :) Actually...we see tons of discarded shoes everywhere - more so than any other type of trash - it's very strange.


I pump some water for our day of riding...


The bikes are parked up behind the wall, against prying eyes, but it actually turned out to be very good protection from the storm, too.


Then it was time to get all the kit back across the stream so we could load it on the bikes and get on our way...I get all the fun jobs :)


Ah, finally....back on the road :)



It's a grey day, but the colors of the rock on the valley walls is amazing! Almost as colorful as the Tibetan tents :)




You can see how low the snowline is...the valley floor is about 3700m.




This is the day that we took the wrong road...it was a flat valley, not very photogenic and not very challenging riding, so we didn't stop very often for snacks :) When we came back across the valley (on the wrong road :) we spotted this shrine and it looked to me like it might be a good spot so we rode up there.


It was ideal! We were on the back side of the hill (the other side of the shrine overlooking the back of a village on the other side), hidden from view on both sides and protected from the wind. There was a perfect little area that was nearly clear of loose rock and we cleared it in a matter of a few minutes (yes, there is a bit of a slope, but it wasn't bad :).



We even built a rock chorten in thanks for finding a second great campsite :)


On to day 3!!!!