greetings all. Just want to quickly mention that I dig SP thus far, I've already picked up a lot of really good info.
As the subject indicates, I'm going to be climbing Orizaba in a few months. While I have learned a lot so far by reading through older posts, I feel like I still have a few more questions. Thanks in advance - I appreciate everyone's help
First, a few notes / comments / concerns
-My group is reletively inexperienced. By that I mean none of us have been on a glacier, or at that altitude. The best experience I can mention is climbing Mt. Fuji, which checks in at a modest 3776M, and is lacking a glacier. So this is definitely a huge step up...
-We should be in pretty good shape from a core/cardio standpoint
-Current schedule is to get in the area/to base camp around the 26th or 27th, and to summit in the early AM on the 29th. Not a lot of time to acclimatize...but it's what we are trying to work with.
I could probably list a million questions, but i'll try to keep it to a few for now:
-In terms of preparing for the glacier, what sort of preparation can I do (aside from actually setting foot onto a glacier in advance?)
-Are we crazy for thinking we can pull this off, based on the shortcomings I mentioned above?
-What are some of the more important things we should do to prepare (based on the time we have left?)
-Any other advice from people who have summited?
Thanks again - any thoughts are welcomed!!
Cheers-