One Day Trek from Sarahan Village to Snow Covered Peaks of Shrikhand Mountain Ranges

Fourth day of MTB Himachal 2010 was a rest day and some of us planned to go on a trek till nearest mountains which were covered with snow. Here are few photographs of the trekking experience at Kullu Sarahan...

So these mountains were our target for the day and we started early morning. Let me share me that I quit the troop on the way and many of them reached there... So the journey started from the camp after having breakfast...

There was a huge ground behind our camp site and we had to cross this to start climbing towards the real himalayas with snow....

After crossing this ground we saw lot of fields of charas crop in the hills.... Locally its called as 'bhang' and after few minutes we realized that the whole ground is surrounded by such crops... Colorful leaves which produce the real hash which is consumed in various parts of the country...

As we started climbing, we encountered these colorful crops called "CHALAI".. Chalai floor is considered as good source of warmth for the body and such things are extremely important for people living at high altitudes... So most of the local folks grow chalai crops...

Colors during the journey were becoming brighter as we climbed up... Brighter sky, colorful trees and various types of stones....

There were various waterfalls on the way.... All the shots of these waterfalls have been taken by zooming... Thanks MTB Himachal to provide this opportunity to know about the real nature of Himachal Pradesh... Lovely place, wonderful people and no words to describe the weather....

Another waterfall on the way and colorful plants on both the sides of the fall...

A small waterfall on the way and this was the point where some of us stopped climbing up & came back....

Top most hill had a flat area to retain the snow...

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Last Stretch of Third Day to reach the most beautiful camping site called Kullu Sarahan - MTB Himachal 2010 : Posted by VJ SHARMA on www.travellingcamera.com : During the evening of third day, we were close to most exciting camping site of MTB Himachal 2010.. Kullu Srahan... A lovely place surrounded by snow covered hills.. It was a nice valley at 3200 meters... Clear view to star trails, blue/bright sky, waterfalls etc... Check the photographs of last stretch which was really tough for riders and most of us reached very late in the camp...Don't expect nice evenings in MTB Himachal 2010... In my opinion, evening were very boring... No group activity and zero interaction... but everyone used to enjoy in small groups...I was surprised to see that there was no arrangement for evening fun and it was hard to find any of the organizer after 9:00 pm.. After that every one used to disperse and none of us bothered to interact with each other during bonfire... I had got good company and we used to spend time in our tent with Rum and some local stuff :)We started last stretch from Baghipul which was the last point for noting down the time taken by riders to complete the day... Baghipul was near Shrikhand River and now we had to climb up 12 kilometers through an extremely rough road... Some of our vehicles stuck on the way...In my opinion slope of these hills was 65-75 degrees and most of us were scared for some time... but everyone was trying to hide it by cracking some jokes :) ... MTB 2009 winner was in our car because he was injured... He made us laugh us a lot....Only few areas are getting some sunlight and soon it will be dark.... It was the time when we had started from Baghipul and no one was aware about the next route ... Even no information about the distance we had to cover to reach the camp.... Organizers were not much bothered about all these details :)Gaddi going home in the evening.... Gaddi is the word which describe a shepherd in Himachal Pradesh...Colorful villages on the way to Kullu Sarahan from Baghipul.... These were fields of 'Chalai', a local crop... Chalai is used in winters and considered as a good source of warmth for the body...After climbing few kilometers we had clear views of shrikhand mountain ranges and all were covered with snow... Lovely colors of sunset were reflecting on the snow... although photograph is not showing the exact view.. It was wonderful...A noisy photograph of the day time... I think it's Satluj river on the left side of this photograph...Finally we reached Sarahan village and got our tents... It was the time to open the new bottle of RUM and get ready to fight with the chilling weather of the place...

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Third day of MTB Himachal 2010 - Tanni Jubber to Kullu Sarahan

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Morning Photographs of MTB Himachal 2010 at Tanni Jubber Camp on Third Day

MTB Riders on highest speed in the downhill stretch parallel to snow covered mountain ranges (On Third day) : Posted by VJ SHARMA on www.travellingcamera.com : Hope you have been enjoying this PHOTO JOURNEY through various routes of MTB Himachal 2010... Its 10th post on this great Himalayan event for passionate bike Riders... on third day, I noticed the highest speed of all the riders in a downhill stretch in parallel to snow capped mountain ranges... Check out some of the photographs of this downhill stretch across snow covered hills...First I wanted to give you a feel of the road where we were waiting to catch fast riders of MTB Himachal 2010... Road was situated on a very high hill in parallel to these mountains covered with snow... wonderful place with nice weather and beautiful surroundings...Here comes a group of riders and Cameras are not set to estimate their speed and adjust accordingly... It took time to adjust our cameras to shoot exactly what we wanted to shoot... At least I tried various things with first few riders and was able to identify right place with right settings....They were moving like anything.... Amazing actions, styles n movements...Even folks on the road were moving downwards toward the deep valley to save themselves fom these fast moving riders :) btw he is another Photographer struggling to set himself for shooting this rider...Rider number 41 ... Most of the riders knew each other by their rider numbers and it was difficult to remember the names of everyone but was very easy to know each other by rider nunber because they were sepnding most of the time on the roads crossing each other...Another rider on full speed in the middle of beautiful himalayan mountains in the state of Himachal Pradesh.... Thanks to MTB Himachal 2010...Mr. Ranjan Mandyal playing in air during MTB Himachal 2010... I got a chance to meet some great folks who have passion about bke riding and do lot of other good things in their lives... Ranjan was one of the guy I met and got a chance to understand him better... Hope to meet all of them again :)Here is another MTb rider in style... moving towards the final goal which is near Satluj river near main highway..Amcha rider from Maharshtra Police... a nice photographer as well... He was planning to host an exhibition in Kolkata and also invited us... Hope to see him next year again...Somehow I wanted to share all these photographs in black and white but it would have been unfair to the colorful beauty of surrounding himlayan mountains....Loved this journey and the colors of himalayas...

MTB Riders on highest speed in the downhill stretch which was parallel to snow covered mountain ranges (On Third day)

Beautiful Journey till Baghipul on third day of MTB Himachal 2010 : Posted by VJ SHARAMA on www.travellingcamera.com : On third day, we had lunch at a very beautiful place which was situated on a very high mountain on the way to nirmand... We had a 30 minutes break for lunch and moved for next milestone... Some part of this road was really scary and beautiful as well.. Just have a look at some of the photographs clicked post lunch and this journey completely at baghipul.. but that was not the last destination.. everyone had to ride the bikes for 12 kilometers.. It was free ride but it took a lot of time because of the rough road till Kullu Sarahan...All such seens were very scary but as I have mentioned many times that we learnt over the time that riders are much more efficient & alert as we used to think... They had full control in spite of amazing speed on these roads... Be it a downhill or an uphill, they were simply amazing... Many times it was frustrating for photographers because our van was not able to catch up with their speed...Shadows are telling about the time and now its less than 1/4th of the stretch but most time consuming, especially Baghipul to Sarahan Village... I hope you noticed snow covered hills in the background :)A new road, just created by Patel Contructions Ltd.. There was a huge project going on near the Satluj River... Lovely views from this place and we couldn't afford to have a break and shot the beauty there.. All these photographs have been clicked from a moving van....Beautiful landscapes but no time to shoot them :( .... Whole group had to be very fast because we needed more time during the last stretch where we had to climb a hill with the slope of 70 degree and it was 12 kilometers from the base site to the main camping area in Sarahan... This place are parallel to Shrikhand Mahadev...Even the peaks with snow cover are a part of Shrikhand mountain range ... One of the popular trek in Himachal Pradesh... Actually it was a pilgrimage site but now a days many trekkers go their to experience amazing beauty of the nature...Roads... 8 days on roads but all were different and more exciting for riders... They always got a new challenge during each day of MTB Himachal 2010...A view of Satluj River from the road which connects Shimla with Nirmand Village or base site for Shrikhand Mahadev(jaon village)...Here is another side of Satluj.. Both the photographs have been clicked from same place... This one is the left side and above one is of right side... wonderful view of Satluj in the middle of very high hills of Himalayas...Another Photograph of Satluj river flowing through Himalayan ranges.. Photograph click during MTB Himachal 2010...Main profession in Himachal - Agriculture and the fields are shining like anything...

All the riders on Satluj Bank in MTB Himachal 2010

Please keep in mind that I was not a rider in this event and can't comment anything about the difficulty level of these stretches... If I have mentioned anything about the same, that's my personal opinion and feel free to correct me...

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