Rachel and I spent the month of September in the English Lake District, a hiker’s paradise. I probably logged close to 150 miles. It was about then I decided to take another shot at Cotopaxi. The decision was accelerated by increasing pain in my right hip which, it turns out, is solved by a hip replacement. If I had the surgery now, I wouldn’t be able to do something that aggressive probably until 2016 sometime. So, my money’s down on a glacier mountaineering class followed by another attempt on Cotopaxi in late Feb 2015.
Did I mention that the Lake District is absolutely gorgeous?
