Parashar Lake, Trek with India hikes, 11-12 July 2015
Somethings cannot be described in words. They need to be experienced. As Trisha says 'woh wali feel'. So, that 'feel' can not be explained, it can only be felt. Let me try to narrate the first time trekking experience of three of us - Trisha, Asheesh and myself - with a somewhat experienced trekker Abhijeet, and two trek leaders from India hikes.
We often hear that the true character of a person comes out when she or he is put in unusually difficult situations. For a first time trekker it is somewhat a similar experience. I decided to go for trekking to spend my birthday doing something which I have never done before and to be able to wake up in the middle of nature.
And I was not disappointed. The air had a fresh breath and it smelled like nature. First thing that dawns is the massiveness and ruggedness of the mountains. They have been there for centuries, always standing tall and letting anyone and everyone enjoy their beauty. All around there was nothing except the mountain peaks with clouds appearing and disappearing in different patterns over the mountains. The sun playing hide and seek with clouds,splashed an array of colours in the sky. The sky so blue is not possible to imagine for us living in cities.
However for us first time Trekkers the trip of over 7 kms from baggi village was surely not an easy one (though indiahikes say that it is an easy trek). Well, the drizzling that started early morning was not the only reason. The bridge over the nullah that connect baggi village to our trek starting point got a washed in the flash floods. Our trek leader , I guess after assessing our experience , was not convinced to continue this. After we managed to convince him we had to cross the nullah full of sludge and rocks which took over an hour. Trust it was not at all easy to walk like that with our back packs. As soon as we got a rythm after crossing the river we were 'attacked' by the leaches. For almost 1.5 hours we were screaming and walking with the most creepy feeling of leach crawling on our skin and also sucking our blood. For the record I got maximum leach bites. It became the only discussion for sometime. Thankfully at higher altitude we got rid of leaches and first time noticed the soroundings. There were layers of lush bright green pastures alternate with forests and in front were the mountains. We were so fatigued that at every possibility we will throw ourselves on the green pastures. Obviously we all anted to soak in as much possible the nature around.
We kept asking our trek leads for how much more time and the standard reply was 2 hrs for like almost 5 hours. The continuous rains added to our woes. Finally we made it to the top which was celebrated with a much needed hot lunch of rajma chawal and chai. All of us were dripping wet and already enquiring about the rooms and toilets. Hahahahaha This was a bad surprise to some of us that there were no toilets.
We were so fatigued that nothing else mattered except to get into a pair of dry clothes and ( look at damage done by leaches)
Somethings cannot be described in words. They need to be experienced. As Trisha says 'woh wali feel'. So, that 'feel' can not be explained, it can only be felt. Let me try to narrate the first time trekking experience of three of us - Trisha, Asheesh and myself - with a somewhat experienced trekker Abhijeet, and two trek leaders from India hikes.
We often hear that the true character of a person comes out when she or he is put in unusually difficult situations. For a first time trekker it is somewhat a similar experience. I decided to go for trekking to spend my birthday doing something which I have never done before and to be able to wake up in the middle of nature.
And I was not disappointed. The air had a fresh breath and it smelled like nature. First thing that dawns is the massiveness and ruggedness of the mountains. They have been there for centuries, always standing tall and letting anyone and everyone enjoy their beauty. All around there was nothing except the mountain peaks with clouds appearing and disappearing in different patterns over the mountains. The sun playing hide and seek with clouds,splashed an array of colours in the sky. The sky so blue is not possible to imagine for us living in cities.
However for us first time Trekkers the trip of over 7 kms from baggi village was surely not an easy one (though indiahikes say that it is an easy trek). Well, the drizzling that started early morning was not the only reason. The bridge over the nullah that connect baggi village to our trek starting point got a washed in the flash floods. Our trek leader , I guess after assessing our experience , was not convinced to continue this. After we managed to convince him we had to cross the nullah full of sludge and rocks which took over an hour. Trust it was not at all easy to walk like that with our back packs. As soon as we got a rythm after crossing the river we were 'attacked' by the leaches. For almost 1.5 hours we were screaming and walking with the most creepy feeling of leach crawling on our skin and also sucking our blood. For the record I got maximum leach bites. It became the only discussion for sometime. Thankfully at higher altitude we got rid of leaches and first time noticed the soroundings. There were layers of lush bright green pastures alternate with forests and in front were the mountains. We were so fatigued that at every possibility we will throw ourselves on the green pastures. Obviously we all anted to soak in as much possible the nature around.
We kept asking our trek leads for how much more time and the standard reply was 2 hrs for like almost 5 hours. The continuous rains added to our woes. Finally we made it to the top which was celebrated with a much needed hot lunch of rajma chawal and chai. All of us were dripping wet and already enquiring about the rooms and toilets. Hahahahaha This was a bad surprise to some of us that there were no toilets.
We were so fatigued that nothing else mattered except to get into a pair of dry clothes and ( look at damage done by leaches)
