{"id":2882,"date":"2012-10-22T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2012-11-18T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T13:13:12","slug":"sajama-hike-climb-sajama-national-park-pt-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/sajama-hike-climb-sajama-national-park-pt-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajama Hike (Climb), Sajama National Park, pt. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Que\u00f1ua Tree<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure it is very satisfying to reach the peak of a mountain after a long and arduous climb.\u00a0 To me, though, it seems like the few minutes of satisfaction would be poor compensation for the long, arduous, climb.\u00a0 For that reason, my \u201cpeaking\u201d has been limited to some pretty easy and low peaks, like Frary Peak on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake of Utah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So, I\u2019m not interested in climbing Tata Sajama.\u00a0 I\u2019m satisfied to view it from afar, and maybe from a bit nearer.\u00a0 For the nearer view, hiking up the path used by climbers for the initial ascent of the Sajama is probably as good an alternative as any.\u00a0 It is a beautiful hike up through the highest forest in the world, consisting exclusively of que\u00f1ua (Polylepis tarapacana<\/em>) trees which can survive up to about 17,000 feet of altitude.\u00a0 This forest harbors unique flora and fauna, and particularly a number of birds endemic to such high altitude forests.<\/p>\n

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Black Siskin<\/p><\/div>\n

I didn’t get very far up the mountain (yet another reason to go back to the Park), but I enjoyed the walk immensely.\u00a0 The views of the mountain are incredible; the birds are flitting around among the unique trees; and I pushed a herd of llamas up the canyon as I went.\u00a0 I’d definitely recommend a day-long hike up and back.<\/p>\n

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White Winged Negrito<\/p><\/div>\n

Attached is a \u00a0.gdb filea<\/a>\u00a0you can use in your GPS or in Google Earth to get a better idea of the road to Base Camp Cara (probably \u201cq\u2019ara\u201d in Aymara, meaning \u201chill with little vegetation) and the trail on up the canyon.\u00a0 The turnoff toward the mountain (south) is some nine miles from Tomarapi (or 2.5 miles from Sajama).<\/p>\n

The final installment of my Guide to Sajama National Park is\u00a0The \u201cOld Road\u201d Back to La Paz; Sajama, pt. 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Que\u00f1ua Tree I\u2019m sure it is very satisfying to reach the peak of a mountain after a long and arduous climb.\u00a0 To me, though, it seems like the few minutes of satisfaction would be poor compensation for the long, arduous, climb.\u00a0 For that reason, my \u201cpeaking\u201d has been limited to some pretty easy and low […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,92,63,57,103,91,59],"tags":[187,171,169,173,168,55,105,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}