Well, we made it up to the top and back. Had an amazing time and now have the post-trip blues.
Altogether we hiked 61km (38 miles). From Machame Gate (1,800m) to Uhuru peak (5,895m) was 4,095m and back was 8,190m or 26,900 ft (5.1 miles) of vertical.
We hope you had as much fun reading the blog as we had writing it. Your comments really were fun to read and kept us going as we were pushing up the mountain.
Not sure what is next exactly, but we are thinking about trying to get to the top of Rainier this summer.
We are retiring our rubinations.wordpress.com and hosting the blog ourself at http://blog.rubination.com
The pictures (ours and the rest of the team’s) are available at (http://photos.rubination.com) and you can see our personal photos (the expanded edition) on Picasa.
Also I updated the map so you can see our camps, the path we took, altitudes and approximate distance at this google map location. There is also a link for our safari.
If you have google earth installed, you should launch the Kili trip. The 3D views and detail is incredible. It is almost (almost) like being there.