Hello everyone! Today, I have hiked the second part of our Annapurna trip! Today our trip was more challenging, but there was also a lot of interesting stuff that happened, which made today even more special than yesterday. Our day began the same way as any other day; I woke up at 6:45 am and got dressed, brushed teeth, and put in my contacts. Ganesh met up with us and told us that the trek today should be as long as yesterday’s, 6 hours(Spoiler Alert! It was longer😖), and then we embarked on our long journey. Before I continue, you should know that our schedule didn’t exactly go as planned and was filled with a lot more activity. I will explain why and also keep this in mind when you get to the motorcycle part. The first two hours of the trek went the same as yesterday. We hiked up and down, saw many other people, and dogs were even following is everywhere!🏃🐕🐕🐄 We also saw a lot of cows when we were walking, so the roads were covered in dung!💩 This wasn’t terrible though, because we often avoided MOST of it. Anyways, our walk went as usual until we had breakfast. Breakfast was when our journey up the mountain took an unexpected and, in my opinion, bad turn. As usual, we ordered off the menu and waited for our food. But since there was only one chef and we ordered a medium amount of food, we waited for TWO WHOLE HOURS for the food to come. This meant that we were 2 hours behind schedule and that we were going to have to rush to get to where we needed to sleep tonight. The chef did send us a letter telling us he was sorry, but you can’t really blame him because cooking for two hours alone is hard work. It was 12 at this point, so we frantically tried to get to where we needed to stay tonight despite all the exhaustion we faced. We reached a small village a few minutes later that wasn’t as active as the last one. We tried to call a jeep because we were really behind schedule and we were exhausted but to no avail. There was only one option: climb up.😓 We started to climb up into the wilderness where we approached a mighty waterfall. The waterfall was very large, but thankfully Ganesh found a way to cross it, at the cost of our heavy shoes getting wet. We crossed it and began to climb further up the mountain. This was all very interesting to me since this has never happened before and I tried to keep a positive attitude towards it. We went up 500 meters to another village called Tinag. We didn’t do anything there except getting Snicker bars and Ella even saw a really cute brown puppy! We hiked down where we crossed a metal bridge…and then we climbed up again. We came across a road junction an hour after the river where Ganesh said there were two ways to Chame: The easy way and the hard way. Since we were running low on time, we went down the easy way. I was feeling very cold and I didn’t move well since we were walking for like, 8 hours, but then Ganesh called a motorcycle that led me to Chame in 5 minutes instead of 40. I was waiting for the others to arrive and they slowly came one by one. I took a shower shortly after that that wasn’t the best, but it still sufficed. At dinner, I ate a native apple, and it tasted delicious😋. Today was very interesting and taught me new ways to solve a problem.

(sorry, this was how the picture was taken!)

Chapter 7:

Chapter 7

The lake was only a few minutes away and was easy to find. Once Trixie and Bruno got there, Ella apparently had left them a hint on how to find the fourth clue: “Use these goggles to dive down and retrieve the yellow box containing clue #4 in it. Bruno put on his goggles but Trixie, with her goggles on, said, “Nuh-uh. Noooo way!  I’m not going down there. So long. Bye bye!” Bruno poked her with his claw and she yelped and jumped into the water. Bruno followed shortly after. Just as the pets went in, Pierre and Boris found the lake and read the instructions. They found a spare pair of goggles and dived in the water, not seeing where Bruno had safely hidden the first 3 clues.

Trixie and Bruno dived to the bottom of the lake. Trixie was digging in the mud on the bottom of the lake and eventually found the box containing clue #4 inside it. As Bruno grabbed it, he saw the shadow of Boris above him and Trixie unleashed a ferocious water-bark that blew away Boris and Pierre, who had almost reached Trixie. Bruno swam all the way to the top with the box while Trixie unleashed a massively disruptive water-fart that made her fly out of the water and blew Pierre and Boris down to the bottom of the lake. Once the pets were safe, Bruno put the first three clues, Asher’s eight sticky gloves, and the map that was left on the ground inside the box that contained the fourth clue. The fourth clue read: “Almost there! It’s just so high up!” The pets then left in a hurry toward the tallest mountain in Boulder, Bear Peak, where the fifth clue was located.

A minute later, Pierre and Boris climbed out of the lake gagging. Trixie and Bruno had gotten away for the fourth time and Pierre and Boris hadn’t even come close to acquiring a clue. Their rivals had also taken away the map and didn’t leave any trace of where they were heading. Boris couldn’t pick up their scent and the other pets left no trace or pawprints. “Boris, I’m calling the mission off,” Pierre said sadly. “We’ll wait by Trixie and Bruno’s house and confront them there. We can’t follow them anymore.” The two then headed for Trixie’s and Bruno’s house as a shady figure watched from the trees, hidden.

“Looks like I’ll be heading back with them,” Racoon Raphael said quietly. “The pets will come back to their house eventually.” Then, he stealthily followed Pierre and Boris to the house.