Carol's Parting Gift

After climbing another ridge we looked down at the gravel bar where the plane would land tomorrow with our friend, Barbara, and our two river guides, Ramona and Susan. There were several other people camped at this rendezvous point - the only ones we had seen for a week. We weren't ready to break the solitude, so we decided to camp on the opposite side of the river by ourselves.

We reached our campsite at about 9:30 PM and Carol cooked us beans & rice and tomato-basil soup. She had saved the best dessert for our last night together and surprised us with a DELICIOUS chocolate pudding cake. Afterwards we sat around and drank chai and felt a little blue about losing Carol tomorrow morning.

And so ends our backpacking journey >> Top: Jenn, Sue, Carol; Bottom: Joanie, Nony, Marilyn