Journey report by BestHike editor Rick McCharles
- Rinjani – day 0
- Rinjani – day 1
- Rinjani – day 2
- Rinjani – day 3
SUMMIT DAY
Awoke on the lake earlier than daybreak. Went straight to the hotsprings alone. Had the recent bathtub to myself.
We packed up camp rapidly.
Stated goodbye to the lake.
There are just a few bridges on this journey. Extra typically you scramble down — and again up. It have to be depressing within the rain.
Hardly ever are there stone steps. This ain’t Nepal.
We had about 600m to realize again climbing as much as the 2nd crater rim from the lake.
It was powerful.
Once I say powerful, along with being technical, we more and more needed to cope with slippery ash.
As soon as on the ridge, we set-up our tents. Had lunch. Then a brief lie down till 2pm.
Considered one of these pests really went inside Mason’s tent whereas he was there! Cheeky.
We’d determined as a bunch to go for sundown in the present day relatively than dawn the next morning. This turned out to be our greatest choice.
Which means we’d climb one other 1100m making an attempt to get to the highest earlier than the sundown. A deadline.
It regarded doable to me.
BUT it obtained more and more slippery and dusty as we ascended.
As soon as above the clouds, we have been motivated by the wonderful vista.
Beautiful views — although it was dusty plodding in sections.
Very, very slippery — all of us used techniques to maintain scrambling slippery scree. I did bouts of 20 steps.
Made it! And properly earlier than sundown.
Only one different group tried our itinerary. Maybe half their group completed, nearly sundown.
In truth, I left the highest even earlier than sundown as I needed some visibility on the scree part on the prime earlier than it obtained darkish.
Descent turned out to be pretty simple. Principally screeing by way of the free mud and rock (scree).
Views on the best way down have been even higher than on the ascent.
Finally we needed to activate our headlamps. I held mine in a single hand, discovering it simpler to direct the beam.
Exhausted, we had dinner in our tents. And went to sleep early.
- Rinjani – day 0
- Rinjani – day 1
- Rinjani – day 2
- Rinjani – day 3