Hattibang, part 1

Volunteers were taken to do the very hard hike to Hattibang. I wasn't among them, but when Josh Ohlmann couldn't go because of a sore ankle, I hopped on board. It was a 6 hour hike, with lots of elevation, to get there. It was the most physically demanding thing I've ever done - as in sweat-drenched, heaving, I-don't-think-I-can-do-this travail... But well worth it, as the next post will show. 


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