trekking

Hello friends After a long home confinement due to Corona pandemic, I was just dying for a trek in the Himalayas. ultimately I got a chance to get some leaves from my office and went for a high altitude trek to Kedartal. The following photologue is about the same. As per BCMT tradition, here are...

About me: I want to keep this post about the trek as much as possible. This is my first travelogue, or even a post on BCMT forum – please have some consideration for that, as you read along. So, it is warranted that I at least introduce myself – a professional in the IT industry having the...

The news was “In the night from 13 to 15 December 2018 the shooting stars of the Geminids meteor shower reach their peak”. As I was from a small town, I have experienced a lot of shooting star events in my lifetime. When we were kids, we had that Load Shading (no Power Supply) nights very...

Hi everyone, I stay in Mumbai and there is a shooting star watching event up for 14-15 Dec 2018. So I booked a tent camp to experience this event. This trip first this kind of trip with my family. So like we all know about tent camps where we can stay overnight or used for trekking in some...

Location:-Harihar fort, maharastra Experience:-Thrilling Ascending:- 2-3-hrs Descending:- 2-3hrs Level:- medium Endurance level:- easy Usually human traffic during rainy season weekend See my last trekking where we were lost in the jungle!

Prologue | Contemplation If I told you I felt nervous, unsure, feeble and muddled, I’d be understating my state of existence. If anything at all, I was vigorously numb. After having shared countless breaths with the treacherous side of the mountain, I believe penning down the emotions is beyond...

Hello to all fellow members, Me and my spouse are planning to have a first Solo trekking in February. We wish to have it independently sans any agency. It is requested to guide on following : 1. We are planning for a trek to Chopta. Any other trek that can be better considering that it will...

This is Not a Forward. Need help finding a trekker in Ladakh. Manka Dworak - female,Polish,33 yrs approx. no contact since 23 days. Trek began on 24th Aug 2017 from Leh. Family has informed embassy but process is slow. Any help appreciated. Check fb page to help out. If you have contacts in...

This series of posts is a travelogue of my recent vacation covering Kinnaur, Spiti, Lahaul and Manali in 16 days. It was a solo trip for most part and involved travel on road, camping, trekking and just lazing around on different days. My previous trip to this region was in 2015 in which I...

Namaskar people, I need a light weight tent which can house two people and some luggage. Can't stress the "Light Weight" part enough since I'll be carrying it myself while trekking. I have used a Quechua tent in past and found it OK for the price. Are there any upgrades to this category...

Kareri Lake, a little less explored place by usual crop of tourists, is situated near Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh. In order to reach Kareri Lake, Dharamshala would be the base, from here take a taxi/bus to Ghera Village and from here it's 21 kilometers of mostly uphill trek. You do have very...

It is 2.30PM I am almost at 4100m, in another 260 meters I will be at Dingboche (4360m). I feel really dizzy, hardly had my lunch and my water intake has reduced. Have all the symptoms of AMS... Did I over estimate myself? Maybe I should I have had a dose of Diamox in the morning along with...

Folks I am planning to go for trekking near chennai / east coast. yep, trekking in summer that too near chennai might be surprising, but i found quite a few places near by. Also looks like this time its going to be above average monsoon rains, so i am assuming things wont be that bad for trek...

This is a short travelogue of my hiking trip to Mt. Rinjani. Sometimes, when age is fast catching up, one tends to start focusing on being able to achieve few difficult tasks and plan to be more fit for the days to come... and this is what exactly lead us to plan for a hiking trip from...

Mama Bhanja Version 2 #mamaBhanja Excited about writing my first travelogue (TL). I ll try to make it interesting and exciting as our tour. Crew: Manik Malhotra (Bhanja,24) Lalit Kumar (Mama,42) Seriously a car PILOT. For him road on other side of car front glass is runway. From Delhi to back...

Day 1 | Ghera – Kareri : We took the 9 : 22 PM bus from Delhi ISBT and reached Dharamshala ISBT at 9 AM in the morning. It was dark and gloomy. We walked to Sita Guest House just 100 m from the ISBT. We got freshened up and after completing breakfast we started out journey towards Ghera. It...

The river less travelled...

As we parked our car in front of Raju Bhai's hotel in Chopta it was Tungnath's first snowfall of 2016 and it was Christmas Day...Yes you are right the 25th December, which concerned us because snowfall usually starts in September here and this is called Global Warming. Further which saddened me...

EPISODE - I IGI Delhi - 7:00pm Flight delays, missing the trains, luggage misplacement, thus our journey began with all the chaos soon after we landed in IGI-Delhi. We never thought Delhi would be so hot in September. Waiting for Aaditya who was flying in a different flight which was running...

I'm planning a solo lodge based trek to Har ki Dun trek in last week Sept 2016. I plan to take a porter and mule to ride if required. Stay will be in Forest rest house (preferably) in Taluka, Osla and HKD. Transport from Dehradun to Sankri will be by hired cab/Sumo, else bus. 19-Sep...