Schalk CronjéFRC report - day 2: I was up at 05:00 sitting in the moonlight, contemplating the day ahead. The silence was amazing.
At 05:30 I woke everybody up so that they could get ready to leave as soon as it was possible to see one's feet without a head lamp. We left camp just after 07:00. It was already hot even though the sun was not even up.
This was another day of mostly big river boulders and some soft sand. Going was slow. Some people were concerned that we were going too slow, and I had to reassure them a number of times that this is normal and that further down the canyon it gets a lot easier to cover terrain. The sensor in my backpack measured a high of 34ºC.
We camped at a place called Palm Sulphur Springs, where there is a ~60º hot spring that runs down into a large pool in the river bed. I wanted to camp 1km further, but the group was tired, so I called it a day.
I did not want to take water from the sulphurous spring -filtered water out of the pool.
