Third Day of MTB Himachal 2010 - Riders reaching river-side(Satluj) after a long stretch

On third day of MTB Himachal 2010, weather was good with clear/bright sky, good sunlight and we started our journey from Tanni Jubber to Kullu Sarahan.... Journey started from Tanni Jubber lake and we took a very narrow road to hit the highway which connects Shimla with Rampur... The whole stretch was beautiful and was surrounded with very high hills covered with snow... Whole  stretech was very risky because of some sharp turns and deep valleys... Here are few photographs after we hit the main highway...




There were some lovely bridges on the way which were very well maintained and only one vehicle was allowed to cross at one time... This particular bridge was over Satluj river near the main highway which connects Shimla with Kinnaur & Kaza...



Here is another bridge on the way and we stopped here to click some photographs near Satluj river... Here Jimsee is looking for right place and right subject to shoot... This Bridge was not in use and we stepped down to the river bank to click some portraits..



All the roads we followed were unimaginably rough and I think it was intentional to make it more adventurous for riders :)



Lot many waterfalls on the way... This particular waterfall was clicked with full zoom(200mm) and original photograph was further cropped :)



A board of "Satluj Jal Vidut Nigam Limited" on river bank .... A beautiful iron bridge in the background...



MTB Himachal Rider number 2 on National Highway 22... They rode on main highway for 30 minutes and again diverted to some unexplored roads which are rarely used by local folks ....


Another view of Mational Highway 22 with snow covered hills in the background and some colorful houses on the right... River Satluj is on the left side of this road....



Here is a sample road which connects National Highway 22 with another main road which goes to Nirmand.. Nirmand is famous as biggest old village in asia...



One of the MTB Himachal rider crossing another iron bridge over Satluj River near National Highway 22...



We had a 30 minutes halt on the river bank and some riders are still doing some practice to check overall state of their cycles... Here Mr. Dutta is name of this rider who came from Maharashtra to enjoy bike riding in Himalayan terrains...



Marshal Bike on river bank and snow covered mountains in the background...



Another rider having some water and security personnel on Satluj Bank... More exciting journey is yet to cover on third day and will share next post about our journey till the last race track till Baghi-Pul.. So watch out this place for more photographs of MTB Himachal 2010...

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Morning Photographs of MTB Himachal 2010 at Tanni Jubber Camp on Third Day : Posted by VJ SHARAMA on www.travellingcamera.com Hope you have already checked photographs of THIRD DAY OF MTB HIMACHAL 2010 and here are few more photographs of starting of the day... We started from Tanni Jubber in the morning and this posting have some photographs of early part of the day... Check it out..Peter... I have seen him ready before time (everyday) and used to take sunbath till the time other folks get ready for final march... Most of the folks used to get ready on time, but somehow we never started on time :)Early morning colors of Tanni Jubber Lake in Himachal Pradesh....Everyone is ready and waiting in the main ground.. Lunch and other stuff is being loaded to the trucks on the left and other folks just having sunbath in chilling winters on Himalayas...Longer shadows of Riders and their bikes in early Morning of third day @ Tanni Jubber, Himachal Pradesh..Its the beginning and show for the day has to start yet.. So keep watching this space for other adventurous moments of 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)


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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