After our successful trek of Goech la last year, we started planning for this years trek. Couple of options (including Everest base camp) were searched and discussed and then we finalized yet another trek in Himalayas and in India. This time, it was Roopkund trek in the state of Uttarakhand.
Roopkund is a moderate trek of 6 days famous for the mysterious lake with skeletons. Once again, we selected TTH as our past experience was awesome. Due to personal and official commitments, we finalized 1st week of June (8 June - 17 June) for the trek. Anagha is also joining for this trek, her being the first Himalayan trek. The group size started increasing hitting the 10 marks (to get 10% discount) very quickly and very soon we were 25+. 😀😀
Travel desk was once again active to complete all the train and rail bookings. Sinhgad practice sessions started immediately, whereas Hadapsar folks found it convenient to do Kanifnath trek. We also had a K2S night trek as part of practice. Country's economy was boosted significantly with frequent visits to Decathlon, Everest shop along with Amazon and Flipkart!
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| Trek 100 shoes... new shoes for me :) |
This time, we had a new t shirt for this trek, in 2 colors white and dark blue.
Here is the design of the same.
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| Front side (same as last year) |
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| Back side with trek route map |
Here is our detailed trek itinerary.
Details:
Day 1 - 8 June : Fly from Pune to Delhi. Delhi sightseeing like Akshardham temple, Lotus temple etc. Catch the Ranikhet express at night to Kathgodam
Day 2 - 9 June : Reach Kathgodam in morning. ~10 hours of travel to Lohajung (base camp) and stay.
Day 3 - 10 June: Start of trek. Lohajung to Didna. Stay at village.
Day 4 - 11 June: Didna to Ali Bugyal. Tent stay.
Day 5 - 12 June: Ali Bugyal to Pathar Nauchani via Bedni Bugyal. Tent stay.
Day 6 - 13 June: Pathar Nauchani to Bhagawa basa via Kalu Vinayak. Stay in tents.
Day 7 - 14 June: Early morning start of the day. Bhagawa basa to Roopkund lake. Breakfast will b at Roopkund and lunch at Bhagawa basa. Stay in tent at Pathar Nauchani
Day 8 - 15 June: Trek from Pathar Nauchani to Wan via Bedni Bugyal and Gharoli Patal. Wan to Lohajung is a travel by road. Back to base camp and stay at Lohajung.
Day 9 - 16 June: Again day long travel back to Kathgodam and evening train (Ranikhet express) for Delhi.
Day 10 - 17 June: Reach Delhi early in the morning. Fly back to Pune. Will be at home by lunch time.
Since Ishani is not joining this time for the trek, she along with Ramesh sir are our ground support team.
Stay tuned for the updates and photos from this famous trek.
Enjoy.
#मम
