The Cumbre is a region of Guatemala that is a high, dry plateau. By high, I mean between 10,000 and 12,000 feet above sea level. It can get pretty cold, but is absolutely beautiful and we love traveling through it. Since it is the major geographic feature that separates our site from Huehuetanango, the departmental capitol, we pass through a few times a month depending on how busy we are.

We were driving across the Cumbre yesterday to go to a meeting, and when we rounded a bend, I remarked on how strangely the late afternoon light fell on the rocks ahead. It almost made it look like snow. “That’s granizo”, my boss said. Hail! We stopped the car, and everyone got out to take pictures. I made a snowball out of it, and bashed it against the other car in our caravan. If you click on the picture above, it will come up in a high-res version you can use for a desktop.