Jared and I dissecting POOP...or technically, puma scat and hairballs...all in a day's work! Why don't they have color pictures in these poop guides?!
Jared and I on the summit of Cerro (de la Muerte)...the Mountain of Death...before descending into the valley behind and back up to get the truck...nice view of the Pacific behind us
hey yall!
Just wanted to keep an update on life in the vast and glorious jungle:
LOTS of hiking...so good though! We've been exploring new trails/steep and dangerous mudslides...
La Catarata...the waterfall...we found this one a little ways up DANTA'S INFERNO...Just before the roped section of the trail
Locals have mentioned danta (tapir...very rare and very endangered...a danta sighting might even trump a jaguar) have been on this one extremely steep, overgrown trail. We named it "DANTA'S INFERNO"...it has a big section of fixed ropes which you haul yourself up the wet cliffside with. On our first attempt at the INFERNO, Bobby got some crazy wasp sting and we had to retreat since his histamine release swelled up so bad...epic trail! we finally got it in 8 hours of hiking! woot woot!
My summer living quarters...Standing by a little casita on the Los Torres trail coming down from the peak of Cerro...looked abandoned, but fully stocked inside
We have also been re-hiking the originals from the past few weeks to monitor animal tracks/scat and swap out remote camera memory cards...it's a mind game to remember where all ten cameras are placed in this vast jungle, despite our best GPS waypoints and note-taking skills...but here's the great news: WE HAVE DEFINITE PUMA TRACKS ON MULTIPLE DAYS...and two days ago we discovered a massive hairball (yikes...it was as nasty as it sounds), which was at least a puma if not a jaguar. Tomorrow's memory card gathering should be promising!
Oh, and Jared said that I remind him of Helen Keller...uh...
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