After we ate lunch in Deurali it started to rain a little and we ducked under cover. There the German couple that had passed us on our way out of Manang showed up. I remembered them, because they were the only people to pass NP and I on the trail while we were walking. Their names were Mark and Judith, hiked with them the rest of the way up to Annapurna Base Camp. Found out they started their travels by bicycle from Germany. They travelled down through Europe and all over the Middle East before leaving their bikes in Israel and flying to Nepal.
We stopped at Machhapuchhre Base Camp as it was starting to rain again, had tea and met an Australian meteorologist. When the weather seemed to be lifting a little we made a break for the last hours hike to ABC. About five or ten minutes out of MBC it started snowing and continued to snow on us all the way to ABC. I can't complain too much. This was the first day of my time in Annapurna that I had to wear my rain jacket! It was really quite a spectacular last half hour as we hiked with about 100ft visibility, snowing heavily and thunder booming in the distance and echoing off the mountains surrounding us!
At ABC they had heaters roaring in the dining hall and everything dried quite quickly and we all stayed toasty warm! Visited with a lovely British couple, doing this trek to celebrate 130 years! Clive's 70th and Caroline's 60th! I was impressed, and they had all kinds of wonderful stories from their travels over the years!
Had brief glimpses of the sun setting on Machhapuchhre through the clouds, that was spectacular... not sure if any of the pictures turned out though.
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