Mountain Terrain Biking, Himachal Pradesh 2011 - Day 5

After full day rest at Kullu Sarahan, it was time for get ready for next journey towards Jalori Pass and back to Shimla via Dhomri (Narkanda) ... All the riders were comparatively more energetic and passionate about the stages of MTB Himachal !!! Here is a small PHOTO JOURNEY of 5th day morning, when we had to move towards Bahu !!!

It was right time to have some clicks of these riders at this beautiful camping site of Kullu Sarahan... But there was no one to co-ordinate and I was not in a mode to pull each of the rider and ask them to say cheeze... So captured some of them who were around the place...

Warm-up sessions at Kullu Sarahan, during Mountain Terrain Biking, Himachal Pradesh-2011

Suddenly more folks from Nepal team, Army group and Noida gang joined in and happily cheering for our next journey of Mountain Terrain Biking Himachal 2011...

Here come the Army team and Monika hopping in with big cheer for the team !!!

Route of Day-5 of Mountain Terrains Biking, Himachal Pradesh, 2011 was ::

Bagipul == Urtu == Garshaain == Damah == Kandagahi == Amarbaag == Chuaai ==Shamshar == Baaho

Sudhir, Vikas, Gouri and Siddhartha - The Noida Gang at Mountain Terrain Biking, Himachal Pradesh, 2011 !!!

Our own, Mr. Darshan Singh Ji... He was comfortably dragging his cycle on this bridge and picked it up after seeing the Travelling-Camera !!!

This lady was here to participate and had come with her little baby. During day time, one of her relative used to take care of this baby. She used to find some time during free stages to meet him and make sure that everything is fine. Unfortunately on last day, baby had very high fever and she had to quit the race in between.

Sarahan goats are coming towards our camps to wish good luck for next journey of MTB Himachal 2011 !!!

Ohh.. Here are our Marshals !!! Arjun had posed for his photograph but most of us were not aware that why he is standing like this :) ...

Finally he got this opportunity of posing again.. that's too with black Scorpio with Official sticker on it :) ... Yo Man !!!

Mr. Gagan also wanted to have a similar shot but Arjun also chipped in :)

Keep watching this place to know more about 5th day of Mountain Terrain Biking Himachal 2011...

Final day of 'Mountain Terrain Biking Himachal 2011' started from Dhomri, which is one of the popular places for skiing in Himachal Pradesh. It's near to Narkanda and nice place surrounded by high cedars. Temperature was very low in the morning and day was bit lazy as compared to other 7 days...As you can see, sun has started touching camping ground but still many folks are inside the tents. Narkanda is nearby market and some of the folks wanted to have nice tea, which was obviously not available at camps :) ... During this time I was alone as my gang was also in market to have some snacks and morning tea...After leaving Dhomri, we followed main highway to reach the starting point of only stage of 8th day. On final day, there was only single stage and it was same as that of starting stage of MTB 2010/2011. Since we had to go via main highway, the roads were jammed due to some political rally. Actually we crossed starting point and thought of entering into the stage from the other end as Final Flying finish was more important... After fighting with traffic at Dhali, we reached Mashobara and had to wait for some time. During that time we visited one of the resort there, to meet one of the friends.Soon after we heard some noise in air and reached back at flying finish point.Above photograph shows the winner literally flying on top of Finish line of MTB Himachal 2011. Now I know, why they call it flying finish. This was the first group to hit the flying finish on final day.Most of the riders were happy with mixed emotions about this whole race and others had already started thinking about offices. Anyway, everyone was now more involved in activities like - Photo-shoots, email/cell-number exchanges etc. Everyone wanted to be in touch with others and photographs were best way for keeping these memories alive.Here is another troop with two folks who broke their arms on the way of MTB Himachal 2011. Mr. Andre, on extreme right, was winner of MTB Himachal 2010 Masters. Since he had to quit this time, Amitabh won this time. Amitabh is second person from left, who won Masters of MTB Himachal 2011.Few more folks joined in ... Mr Rohit making them cheer :)MTB team was mostly worried about their banners and branding posters, which are important to have money :) ... So here is one photograph with MTB 2011 banner. This was the time when every rider just wanted to reach at their Hotels in Shimla. Everyone wanted to have some rest now...Finally everyone started the free ride from Mashobara to Ridge through Sajauli and IGMC. This photograph was clicked where Mashobara road hits main highway again.Now all of them needed to ride in high traffic areas, markets... and this one is at Dhali !!! I was on a motorbike and scared of the situation when 100 odd riders were on the road and the traffic was not very disciplined. This is one of the very difficult problem on hills and dangerous as well.Rider crossing Saljauli Market... From Sanjauli Chowk, we had to move towards Indira Gandhi Medical College, which leads to Lakkar Bazar and then Ridge. On reaching Ridge, plan was to have a quick ceremony to announce winners and exposure to media.But Marshal who were guiding this group got a signal from Ridge that preparations are slow and they need more time. Now, it was their headache to manage the delay :) ... So many times these riders were stopped on the way, to make sure that we reach just in time. Although many folks were annoyed...After a break we again started. This shot was taken near Shimla College which comes on the way from Sanjauli to Ridge. This was a wonderful road and there was a time when people used to rent out a cycle from lakkar Bazar to have a round till Sanjauli chowk and come back. Now cycles on rent are not available, but people still prefer to walk on this road.Anyway, this kafila was about to reach IGMC and everyone stopped. And this was final halt of 45 minutes because preparation on ridge were not done. But for of the folks it a good opportunity to show some cycle stunts on wide roads of Shimla.And why motorbikes should stay behind !!! Aneesh also tried some stunts, but still riders wanted to move towards Ridge and wanted to have some rest at their hotels.

Glimpses

More Photographs of the event to come... So keep watching this place and get in touch at VJ@travellingcamera in case of more information about this event !!!

FOR MORE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MTB 2011 :-

After wonderful stay at Kullu Sarahan, it was time to move ahead with new challenges. This was a long day for us due to lot many reasons... Let's have this PHOTO JOURNEY of first half of Day-5 during Mountain Terrain Biking, Himachal Pradesh 2011...Journey started through lovely landscapes and Apple Orchards... This was a steep downhill till Baghipul... This road was very rough and turns were really dangerous.First stage started from Sarahan School and finished at Baghipul junction. Then there was free ride till water junction and had to start second stage of 5th day during MTB Himachal 2011.Media folks settled inside various fields of chalai and Apple orchards to have some creative video shots... Here Mr. Rohit waiting for a rider to come ...After few second all of them suddenly crossed us and many of us were busy in settling cameras...This day we walked for approximately 4 kilometers to try various shots at different places. While reached near our car, we got to know that it's tyre has come out and need to get in touch with mechanics. Without giving second thought, we kept clicking till the point we could catch riders...Here Mr. Padam Subba, captain of Nepal team !!!Some of the villagers came up to the road for seeing all these cycle riders and some of them stopped our cars to let us know that Himachal Government is ignoring this region and requested to bring it to their notice that only bus to these villages has stopped coming. It was really strange to hear that only bus on this stretch of 13 kilometers had stopped coming.One of the MTB Himachal rider crossing chalai fields on the way to Baghipul from Kullu-Sarahan... The yellow crop in the background is called Chalai. This particular thing is considered as a good stuff for keeping the body warm. This region gets snow early during the winters and it's important to have such crops.Mr. Andre, champion of MTB Himachal 2010 masters... Unfortunately his bike skit over a stone and he got injured and couldn't continue. This happened during stage one only, between Sarahan to Baghipul. He was leading masters till this point.A framer going to his fields with all the equipments for plowing and stopped on roadside to see these riding flying at their village.Since our car had left ahead as it needed some service, we had to catch another car of some official. After some shots near a small village on the way, we stopped one of the official car and came down to Baghipul. One of the other rider was fixing the Tyre of his bike on the way... During MTB Himachal, some mechanics remain on the terrain but many times riders have to fix the minor problems to avoid the time lapse due to locating a mechanic and getting the problem fixed by him.MTB Rider crossing through an apple orchard near Baghipul. This whole areas has lots of apples orchards. and most of the families around these villages are dependent on agriculture only. After reaching Baghipul, we got to know that our car will be fixed in next 1 hour.Rather than waiting for an hour in car or around Baghipul market, we thought of going towards Shrikhand river and have bath in chilled water. Sunlight was our hope to have a bath in this chilled water coming from snow covered Shrikhand mountain range.These were some of the wonderful moments of MTB Himachal... More Photographs of the event to come... So keep watching this place and get in touch at VJ@travellingcamera in case of more information about this event !!!

Flag-Off from Shimla-Ridge

Day-1 : Shimla to Ghada Kuffar

Day-2 : Ghada Kuffar to Tanni Jubber

Day-3 : Tani Jubber to Kullu Sarahan

Day-4 : Rest at Kullu Sarahan

Some motorbike stunts at Kullu-Srahan

Himachal Natti during bonefire

Good Morning Sarahan

Let's move towards Bahu - The next Camping Site

Day-5 : Part-2 : Mountain Terrain Biking towards Bahu

MTB Himachal 2011 - Day-6 - Bahu, Jalori, Sarolsar, Shawadh

7th Day - Towards the Skiiing place, Dhomri (Narkanda)

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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