| October 4: The host mother got up before the sun rose and I spent a few more minutes in the bag before climbing out. I wanted to see what she was up to and wanted to help her carry water up the hill if she was doing that in the wee hours of the morning.
Our yurt mother has five children. They don't usually live in the yurt except during holidays. Instead they live in town with their grandma so they can go to school. How do they travel from the yurt to town? They walk. It is at least 2-4 hours by horse. Her husband is also a horse trek guide and was out guiding seven people visiting from Beijing.
As the pink of the morning sun sneaked its way over the hills, our yurt mom, gathered poop from the tied up yaks. She carried a basket on her back and used a pitchfork to fling dung up and over her head, poop landing in the target. I wanted to help her with her chores but thought that me trying to fling poop into a basket would be extremely inefficient. I'd likely be chasing poop from here to there as I missed the target.
Plus are yaks friendly? I watched from a distance.
After collecting poop from about 50 yaks, she started to rake horse droppings. I was able to do that chore while she went back inside and started preparing breakfast.
A recent reader said that link of the fall from a horse video didn't work. She has recently been editing a short movie about the trip. Here is the edited version. Here is the raw version. | 
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