Saturday, January 22nd

Today we went to Nevado de Toluca with the Michaels, Noelle's family. Nevado de Toluca is a huge, extinct volcano that we can hike inside of. Two large lakes have formed inside of it, and we can see the lava dome. We hiked up the side of the volcano, down into it, across the bottom, up the other side, then all the way back! My dad got to an altitude of 15,300 ft., my mom and I got to 14,800. And at that point we weren't hiking, it was more like hand-over-hand climbing! The best part of climbing the volcano is going down, there are very fun screeing trails! Screeing is like sliding down the side of the volcano on dust and little pieces of rock, it's a lot more fun than it sounds! By the time we got back to the car, everyone was exhausted so we just picked up some McDonald's on the way home.