They arrived full of gusto after a long journey and after some deliberation chose a spot for a double pitch with it’s own fire.
It didn’t make much sense to run two separate fires so we moved the firewood we had already collected to their pit and that became the communal fire.
Damian joined us for a while and later Lennart and Ramko returned from their wanderings too.
A pleasant evening around the fire with excellent company, preparing food, melting snow for water, exchanging our travel stories and looking forward to the market.
An interesting discovery was made at this point. We had been walking around on the powdery snow with snowshoes for some time by now, the surface was still barely stable in just boots, when Riam decided to remodel his end of the shelter.
This started off with shovelling snow from one area to another but eventually he decided he wanted to try his snow saw out on the job and cut blocks to build a wall sheltering part if his bivi.
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