Caraz

Currently we are in Caraz, a smaller town 1.5 hours from Huaraz with easy access to the Cordillera Blanca mountains. Our plan from this town was to do the Santa Cruz trek over 4 days. We bought a good map and have a detailed description of the hike, and felt comfortable doing it without a guide. We hit the local market bought 10 oranges, bananas for breakfast, loaf of bread, jam, pasta, sauce, tuna fish, oatmeal, gas for the stove, matches and enough water to get going. We packed our bags with the necesities-tent, stove, 2 sets of clothes, cold weather and rain proof gear, headlamps, sleeping bags, mats. Everything was ready to go. Then Josh asked ¨Where are my shoes¨ ........
¨oh no, ahh...I saw them under the bed at the last hotel in Cajamarca. I thought about saying something, but it was early in the morning, before nine and we didn´t have to leave until that night at 9...I thought you surely would have looked when you packed. ugg.¨

Thus we did not do the Santa Cruz Trek. The next day we headed to Huaraz and bought Josh his 3rd pair of shoes for the trip.