[RWD version 1 ] Day 2 - Chiyalsa to Budhidanda
Start at 9,164ft and end at 5,681ft. Max height 9,340ft. Maximum gradients encountered were 24.5% and -47.8%.

Woken by porters at 7.30am with a bowl of hot water! What a luxury. Then at 8am we were presented with a cup of hot tea. There had been a hard frost overnight but we were very comfortable in our sleeping bags.
Once we had packed up our gear, the porters took down and packed the tents. A lovely breakfast was already prepared in the mess tent. By 9am we broke camp and all the gear was gathered by the porters and we carried as much as we could safely accommodate.
The loads that these small porters carry is hard to comprehend.
The track would be extremely hard to follow without expert guiding since there are numerous side tracks heading in different directions with no indications as to where they end. The terrain was very mixed and could be dangerous should one stumble. All along the trail were ledges which I thought were a bit high for seats! It turned out that they were resting stations for the sherpas. The ledges were there to place their Doko wicker carrying baskets, making it easier to load up again without having to lift them up from the ground.
This evening we actually got to our camp site ahead of our porters, since our original campsite choice did not have any water and we had to move to another location a bit further on. Many of these remote high villages have to travel some distance when water sources dry up occasionally.
One thing to be wary of is the vagaries of GPS devices in these steep tangled mountains. I noticed that it took a long time to gain a good signal when starting up the GPS. Also during the day the GPS signal was lost on occasions when descending into georges.