cerro chirripo' (3820m/11000+ft)

I am at the lodge on the way to the Cerro Chirripo', more or less at 3400 meters above sea level. Tomorrow before dawn we're going to the summit, at 3820 meters, to catch the dawn and both oceans hopefully!
We left Perez this morning at 5.30, then go to San Gerardo de Rivas at 7, started our hike then...it's 2 kilometers to the beginning of the trail...we started the trail, at km 0, at 8am...got up here at km 14.5 at 2pm! So it was a total of 7 hours, mostly doable, except some harder parts, especially right before the lodge!
We're spending the night in this lodge tonight, eating food we brought up (bread and honey mostly), then around 4am we're going to the summit, and then coming back here to the lodge again, before making the 14.5 km hike down...it was a lot of fun, although I wish I didn't have to carry my clothes, sleeping bag and food all the way up here...it would have made it much nicer...oh, we didn't spot that much wildlife...the highlight was a few monkeys we caught at the beginning of the trail!
I am really crossing my fingers that we can have clear skies tomorrow "morning" so that we can see both the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, and then maybe also Volcan Baru in Panama!
Then tomorrow after the hike down to San Gerardo de Rivas and the bus back down to Perez (San Isidro), we're going to try and go to a restaurant for Christmas Eve dinner...we eyed a restaurant in town last night, and we might go there again...except doubling our orders, since we'll be super hungry!