Volcán Tajumulco

Hello all,
Very quick post here. We climbed up the tallest mountain in Central America, Volcán Tajumulco. The dormant volcano is 4220m tall and until last December had never (recorded) had snow on top of it. We were luck enough not to have it snow on us because we would have been very ill prepared. To get to the volcano we took two chicken buses from Xela to San Marcos and then on to the small village just below Tajumulco (which I cannot remember at the moment).
The total of our trip came to 84Q (for the both of us), had we gone with a travel group of tourist we would have paid 800Q, so we did real good! The mountain itself was not that difficult to climb but the elevation got to us. Imagine that! We got up to the Saddle much before sunset so we had time to get camp set up and time for us to hopefully climatize to the higher elevation and less oxygen. My brain was hurting from little oxygen but Kyle was up for making it up the summit for sunset. Apparently what a sunset it was too! We slept through a cool night, I was fine in my clothes and 35 degree sleeping bag, but Kyle was cold and hardly slept. At 430am or so we were woken up by the trekkers heading up to catch the sunrise. Oh boy was it great, pictures to come, but they are something to see and even better to experience yourself!!
Well like I said short post, hope you all check out some of the photos I was able to post, cheers!!