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| vTungurahua | Chasing The Dragon: Tungurahua, March 29, 2006  Date Climbed: Mar 29, 2006 | |
| Short version: departed Baños March 28, made the refugio, attempted the crater, had to abort due to clouds. March 29 successfully made the crater by 4pm, stayed one hour, then descended. March 30 descended to Baños. Summary? Tungurahua was the most intense adventure of my life. In retrospect thankfully I lived to tell the tale. Here are some links documenting the full story, pictures and video. Click here for the full story. Tungurahua spits an ash cloud in my face (video): Tungurahua Ash Cloud A 7 minute photo-video story of my climb of Tungurahua (set to a relevant heavy metal soundtrack, mind the volume!): Chasing The Dragon: Tungurahua | |
| Posted Aug 25, 2009 12:45 pm | ||
| Baarb | Esperando... Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2007 | |
| Clambered around for a few weeks on the north and south sides of Tungurahua, seeing numerous ash-rich explosions and feeling the ground and air vibrate each day. Some spectacular incandescence at night and beautiful views after storms when fresh snow has fallen on the summit reaches. | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2007 9:08 pm | ||
| Elwood | Normal Route, date climbed 1/18/99 Date Climbed: Jan 18, 1999 | |
| Boy! I bet this mountain has changed alot since I was up it. Enjoyable acclimatizing hike, stayed at the older/upper hut. After the climb, we had to stay in Banos an extra day, because we all fell in love with this little town! | |
| Posted Feb 18, 2007 3:55 am | ||
| forjan | Route Climbed: Normal Route (north ridge) Date Climbed: January 9, 2006 | |
| I decided to hike the active volcano of Tungurahua. I drove to the end of the road on Pondoa (8,900 ft). Can't go any higher as the dirt road has become a single track. I started the hike from 8,900 ft at 8:00am. I reached the Tungurahua huts at 12,467 ft (3800 m) by 9:30am. I kept going beyond the Sangay National Park warning limit sign until the roars from the Tungurahua volcano were too much. It sounded like it could erupt at any minute. I got to 13,812 feet (4210 meters) at 10:30am. I waited there for 15 minutes listening to the roaring, active volcano. This was by far the most scary part of the trip. The summit was still another 2,644 vertical feet away. While waiting up there, I caught a 5-second glimpse of Chimborazo through the rolling clouds. I started down at 10:45am and was back to the parked truck by 11:57am. Then, I drove down to Baños, took a shower at Hotel Palace and checked out by 1:00pm. Drove back to Quito to overnight. | |
| Posted Jan 13, 2006 3:41 pm | ||
| chris_2112 | Route Climbed: normal route Date Climbed: February 21-22, 2005 | |
| Reached and proceeded slightly past the 3800 metre refugio, 6 hour climb from Pondoa. Refugio was absolute bare-bones, roof-over-your-head type of place. Slept on a wood floor with woven mats of some kind of plant that were scattered around, under our sleeping bags. Volcano was moderately active, and we had a clear view of the summit activity. Small ash/gas plume was visible. No noises were heard. Ashfall was directed to the west at the time, but there was a thin layer of ash from previous days covering the plants and ground around the refugio. Beautiful vistas of Chimborazo and other volcanoes from the refugio. Could see the lights of Banos at night as well. | |
| Posted Jun 21, 2005 12:23 am | ||
| ripper333 | Route Climbed: normal route Date Climbed: dec 2005 | |
| used a hike to the highest hut on this mountain as a warm-up for chimbo. what a beautiful hike. i highly recommend it if your hanging in banos and looking for something to do. it took us about 5 hours to the hut and that was pushing it. you are able to see alot of activity from the hut .... really incredible views. | |
| Posted Feb 15, 2005 6:47 pm | ||
| Mblue01 | Route Climbed: normal Date Climbed: 16th of July 2004 | |
| Only been up to 3800m due to volcanic activity, too dangerous at that moment to go higher. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2004 3:55 pm | ||
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