It was Feb, 2011. When Kiran sent a mail to our gypsys group saying YHAI Trek registrations are open. I asked Pallavi if she is interested.. and as usual, she said "yes" with full energy.
Details of the trek in YHAI website . If the link doesn't open, then you may wait till next feb for the opening. Keep an eye on the yha india website for any programs.
We did some jogging for 20days or so as a preparation of fitness. I recommend it, as it helps you to comfortably finish the trek.
The schedule of ours in this trip looked like below.
May 3rd: Went Delhi in flight. In HPTDC volvo bus left towards Manali.
May 4th: Got down at Bhunter. Took a bus to Kasol (bus goes to Manikaran). Went to base camp, and registered. (5,100ft)
May 5th: 5:30am -> Bed tea, 6am -7am: exercise, 7:30am -> breakfast, 9-12:30 -> acclimatization walk. 1:00pm -> lunch, 3:00pm -> orientation. 4:30pm -> tea, 7:30pm->dinner. 8:30pm -> camp-fire. 9pm -> good night. It was our batch's cultural program for camp-fire, and we did practice well. Our gang did a skit 'the lost soul' (written by us, narrated by manoj). Me and Kiran sung 'Naavaduva nuDiye kannada nuDi'. All of us sung, 'mile sur mera tumhaara'. It was good.
May 6th: Rock climbing and rappelling were planned activity, but due to rain, rocks were wet and we couldn't do that. Instead we went on a walk to near by villages, and it was fun. In evening we took shower in hot-spring of Kasol.
May 7th: We were supposed to leave to higher camps, but due to the bad weather it got canceled. So we went to Manikaran. Had food in gurudwara there.
May 8th: Our hiking started. We left towards Grahan (7,500ft)
May 9th: Left towards Padri (8,600ft)
May 10th : Left towards Ratapani (10,600ft)
May 11th : Left towards Nagru (12,500ft)
May 12th : Went to Sarpass (13,800ft) and got down to Biskeri (11,200ft). This is the day we had to walk almost 14kms, and 95+% of this trek was on snow. We left at 4am in morning and finished the trek by 11:30am.
May 13th : Our schedule was to goto Bandak thatch. But we skipped it, and went directly to Barsoni (6,400ft). and got a bus and went to Kasol base camp. Got our certificates and left the base camp. We were done with the trip :-) successfully!! We stayed in kasol (hotel) that day, had food in 'little italy'. Had isreli food.
May 14th : left towards Kullu to do water rafting.
some photos here
2 comments:
Amazing, I wanna goto this too.
Hello, We are planning for Sar-pass, what about the snow in May End?? will get to see some??
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