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Hi Sweets,

Re your photo...I think it is Huascaran from the northeast, looking SW. Can't be sure because I haven't spent much time on the east side of the Cordillera.

This part of Peru really has some spectacular scenery and a LOT of scary roads. I was on a 7-pucker road yesterday. I rate roads on a pucker-factor basis from 1 to 10. 1 would be driving to Valerie's casa in Texas...a 7 is where your side view mirror is almost scraping the inside of the road and your tires are barely on the road, and there is at least a 500-foot vetical drop. A 7 quickly elevates to a 10 when you come around a turn and coming toward you is a bus filled with people and also has a ton of potatoes and two pigs and a billy goat on the roof. Then you have to back. That gets you to a 10-pucker road.

All in a day's work, wouldn't have it any other way.

Cheers from Peru

" A 7 quickly elevates to a 10 when you come around a turn and coming toward you is a bus filled with people and also has a ton of potatoes and two pigs and a billy goat on the roof. Then you have to back. "

That sounds like a little TOO much adventure, even for me! I was looking at some other pictures of the area. Looks like some pretty unforgiving territory, particualarly in the mountains.