Trek To Triund And Beyond

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12 of us left for our trek on the 10th at about 8am. We walked from Mcleod Ganj up and up to about 2800 Mtrs. It took us about 3 hours to get up to the top and was amazing but hard work! I have some incredible pictures but I just don't know if they do it justice.... :s
We stayed at Triund for the night so people could get used to the altitude and 12 of us filled the floor in a small cabin. It was great because from when we started we seemed to accumulate dogs. We ended up with about five and they seem to just trek with people and look after them. They even came further up with us to the snow line the next day and then all the way back home on the last day. They don't belong to anyone...they are the nicest dogs though. As I said we continued on the next day to the snow line, the mountains are just incredible...pretty humbling too! Climbing to about 3500 Mtrs. On Sunday we took the descent down and took us about 3 hours again...such a great view with about 9 dogs now that we had seemed to collect! Got back just on time for lunch. I was pretty disappointed that it was not for longer as that is definatly the highlight so far...coming back to this town and all its horns, noise and mayhem was sudden hell for a bit!!!
Today it is Monday and we have a day off. It's starting to get quite cold here in the evenings...only 2 weeks to go then hopefully I can go find some sun! Ashley and I are planning to spend Christmas, my birthday and New Year in Goa....should be good! 😊

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Photos

Beginning Of Trek
This is the beginning of our Trek with Marcas (Italy) on the lft and Ashley (Canada) on the right. Others follow.

First Stop
This is our first stop on the trek with Ashley and Lisa (U.S.)

View from halfway up.
This is a view from halfway up, unfortunately a little misty.

Alain and I at Triund!
This is 3hrs later when we arrived at Triund (2800mtrs). I am sitting next to Alain (French) and Siho who is Japanese.

Dog and I
This is me with one of the dogs and Susan (Austrian) on the left.

First night sunset
Sunset on the first night with a dog in the corner! Very beautiful at Triund.

Me and massive mountains.
This is a very small me along the backdrop of the huge mountains behind...just an amazing site!

Group at the snow line
This is the group at the snow line on the the second day, about to have chai tea.

Lisa against mountains
Lisa against the mountains.

Dogs, Benson, Ashley and I
I love this picture, this is at Triund with two dogs, Ashley, Benson (Canada) and me. - In the sun...

Morning View
For two mornings this is the view we woke up to, beautiful.

Way down
This is on the way down on Sunday.

At the snowline
Ashley and I at the snowline.

Comments

[Varun]

nice pics and story
As i come from Dharamshala, it feels good to see people enjoying the natural beauty of my hometown cheers

[jo]

photos
great photos and great blog - keep it coming!!

[kasli]

Great pics and wonderful story.. !!
I should say with all my heart envy you...please let me know some more as costs etc if you have . thats all..Great !!

[GuNs]

My own trek to Triund
Hey... It was nice to read about your trek to Triund. All the photos looked familiar coz it was exactly like that when I went on the trek to Triund in April 2006. Do check out my log of the trek at http://peacewithguns.blogspot.com/2006/05/ttt-trek-to-triund.html -PeAcE --WiTh ---GuNs