Mountain Hike with a Lot of Heat

Greetings friends from La Colmena, today I am going to share a walk that I do in the mountain of my community, we call this hill Los Chivos, which is located in the state of Aragua, Venezuela.

I had already planned to climb this mountain, so I decided to send a message by phone to a teammate who always accompanies me on all these walks, but he didn't answer me, I imagine that he had already gone to the mountain.

In this walk training I had planned to leave at 4 in the afternoon, but I had to wait a bit for the sun to go down and I left at 4:30 pm with my pet Negrito, despite having expected that the heat was quite strong , Take me a two-liter plastic bottle to leave it at the top of the mountain, where there is a basket where the hikers deposit the bottles with water to repair the plants that are totally dry due to the terrible drought, since we are in summer.

It should be noted that I went up at a constant pace, but I stopped a bit when I started to go up to pick up another 2-liter bottle of water, that is, I had 4 liters of water in a bag, which I was going to leave in the basket to water the plants, when I reached the top where the cross is, I deposited the two bottles of water, and the weight I was carrying was relieved a bit, I continued my journey together with my dog, the sun began to rise a little and the temperature was quite strong , I was already starting to sweat due to the heat.

Upon reaching the third mountain, I met my teammate Simón, who was doing bar exercises, then when he saw me he asked me if I was going to continue to the part where the electric towers are, so he accompanied me to continue with this walk. with a somewhat strenuous heat, from these months the heat will increase, already in the month of April the color is stronger, for this reason it is important to have a good hydration, to avoid dehydration due to physical effort.

When I do these walks, I always carry my bag with a bottle of water for hydration for me and my pet, because I can't leave him without drinking water, since he needs to drink water so he can climb the mountain. We then arrived beyond the electric towers, there we met a friend who was sitting enjoying the beautiful view that this mountain offers us.

The drip irrigation system that the hikers implemented so that the small plants have constant water caught my attention, on top of it they placed a 2-liter bottle of water, with a small hose, where the water falls by gravity, I thought it was great this irrigation technique for these plants can survive this severe drought. For my part, I help them by raising the bottles with water for irrigation and sometimes when they see that the plants are very dry I water them when I come back from training.

This activity is done voluntarily, as environmental conservationists, so that in the future all of us can have a mountain with more trees, so that it gives us more oxygen and shade when we are climbing this mountain.

I hope you liked this hiking route, see you at the next hiking training.

Photographs:Redmi Note 10 phone