Goech La Trek: Day 6

Day 6

Friday 5 May 2017

Dzongri (12947 ft) to Thansing (12900 ft)

Distance: 7.2 kms  Time: 5 hrs 20 mins 

Some fun with the snow :)

Yaks who carried our bags

Call for the day was 6-7-8. This was relatively easy day of the trek as there was no relative height gain between the 2 campsites. However the heavy snowfall last evening left all of us in doubt. It helped too as we were extra cautious while walking. We climbed the small hill (~425 ft) behind our campsite and stopped for others to join. Here we heard the bad news, first setback for our team...Ishani was not comfortable while walking and hence not feeling well. Prateek spoke to Tashi, and understood the situation. Advait, Ishani and Tashi had discussion and then it was decided that Ishani would go back to Yuksom and rest.

 

The trail from here was easy, walking on the platue with small ups and downs. It was slippery at few places due to melting of the snow (and turning it into ice). After 2 hours of walking, we started heading down towards Kokachurang (12100 ft). It was a steep descent of ~1000 ft in the dense forest.

Pratik, Vinit, Mahesh,  Viraj & Atul

Kokachurang campsite location is simply superb. Prek Chu river was gushing downwards with a force with water making a sweet noise. Complete tranquility!! We spent good amount of time here capturing the nature (and us too) in the lenses. 

Kokachurang to Thansing was little more than 1 hour walk with height gain of 900 ft. With previous night experience (and comfort) at Dzongri, team decided to stay in wooden hut instead of tents here. After some rest, team enjoyed the hot lunch and tea. We also interacted with the earlier batch who were planning to march towards the view point that night. View of Pandim and Thansinkhay was awesome from here.

Team busy in stretching exercise

After our regular routine of soup followed by dinner, everybody went to their rooms. Tomorrow would be the easiest day as we have to walk only for 2 hrs and 4 kms. Hence tomorrows call was 9-10-11.

My stats for the day:
Pulse: 85.  O2:  87.  Breathing rate: 18

Garmin details:
Dzongri to Thansing Trail

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