Day 1 Trekking.

According to information read to date, on the Machame route a typical first day is trekking from the Machame Gate (1490m) to Machame camp (2980m). This takes around 7 hours mainly through rain forest, where not surprisingly, considering the name "rain" forest, it is often raining. Distance wise is dependant on how one get's to the starting gate, which is down to the weather at the time. If conditions are dry it is normal to drive to the gate, but if muddy, i refer you to "rain forest" again it is another 1 hour trek.
This is a great opportunity to see a rain forest close up, however it often means the trail is a very soggy, muddy and slippery experience, on the bright side at least when you arrive at camp, and find your tent, you can look forward to night temperatures dropping to freezing point.

To be honest  this does sound a little bit like walking to Pingot Lane, the access to my home, and I think temperature wise, for anyone who lives in the cottages down there, freezing point is normal conditions!

This is what Rose cottage (my home) looked like many, many years ago, but honestly there is not a lot of difference in looks today, other than to say the lane has many more pot holes now!

As for preparations, ah yes, moving on until the next updated then.