“Llama Trek” by Nutnfancy04:33

Making Everest base camp with llamas. Ok, not quite. But mountains, snow, and a llama team make for another original Nutnfancy Project adventure, reminenscent of epic old school high mountain adventures. It seems like an approach to Base Camp in Nepal as we rely upon the the “boys” that are our llamas Rama, Casper, and Windstar to haul most of our gear to the snow line. Crocket20 and TNP guest Campfiretalk are my comps on the trek. Crocket’s bad back prompted my getting of the llamas to save this trip. Their home seems appropriate for this type of adventure. Hailing from the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple, these llamas have personality and moxie. We journey up steep slopes with mountain veteran Allie the Mountain Dog who again impresses us with her prowess in snowy rough terrain. But they are not invincible and we soon find their limitations as the snow deepens. Deep snow threatens to break the legs of the “boys” so I have us make base in a mountain basin, adventuring from there. Allie and the llamas become fast friends. An ever talkative CF and I do a hard 1,200 ft elevation snow shoe and bushwhack to a higher meadow where the temperature plummets and the snow gets even deeper. Stunning night time skies greet us against the blue spruce skyline. From the mountain ridge on the way down we stand in awe at the city lights below. A long snow shoe descent is necessary to make the llama base camp by 10 pm where a fire and our tents await. The llamas are at ease in the camp but miss grazing due to season. Sun breaks on the next day and kinfe testing and some .22 plinking ensues with the crew; I always stay busy. It’s time to head down and it seems the descent is even more precarious than the ascent and some lose their gear on the way down…ooops. The adventures ends too quickly it seems. But we enjoyed our llama friends and having these kind animals make time in the high elevations even more memorable./////////////////////Music produced especially for and licensed for TNP by TNPr www.youtube.com/bryanisms