Showing posts with label image gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label image gallery. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Dodi Tal now online



The grand Dodital Trek image gallery is now online! This 4-day trip turned out worth a thousand anecdotes.

Here's some archival fodder detailing the awesome night that we trekked without rest, starting from Dodital, right uptil Gangori; a distance of 34km (and 47km for me for the entire day)
The atmosphere is quiet and thick with shadows. The silence has intensified the void. Dark mountains bulk all around us, and if not for our dim torch lights, we couldn't be certain if we were trudging ahead on our own discretion or had the darkness taken us in for prisoners.
These extremities of Uttarkashi - the roads that form its nerves - are like a bad mutation. They get no blood, for there are no settlements along them for many kilometers; many kilometers of stretches that you thought were populated, lie barren in the night. Me and Saurabh seem to have internalised this emptiness - walking on sans any emotion, not even fear.


Here's the trek listing
Here's my image gallery

Thursday, December 25, 2008

A slice of Corbett country, now online

Finally put the image gallery to a recent trip to parts of Kumaon that you might never hear about online. If not for procrastination, this would've come earlier.
It should be worth more when I'll add some route descriptions and maps as resources. Hard to give a title to this post, but Jim Corbett can be reasonably assumed a binding factor behind the places (and jungles in general). The most obvious binding factor seems Nainital, duh, or Kumaon.

Jo bhi hai, I hope it expresses those 4 meticulously planned, pulse-racing days nicely.

Monday, July 07, 2008

Grandeur of Kedarnath, now visible to all

The Kedarnath (and Hardwar and Rishikesh) trip image galleries are out there! Me and my college classmates undertook this trip in May of 2008, right after our exams were wrapped up with. Hardwar and Rishikesh came first on our map, then Shivpuri for adventure camp + rafting, then to Gaurikund and finally trekking up to the Kedar. The days didn't go without adventure (and stomach upsets). Some left midway, some joined midway and we thinned out from 7 in Rishikesh (6 in Hardwar) to 4 in Kedarnath (Anikesh, Deepanjan, Piyush, me).

Here is some link fodder:
* Kedarnath-Rishikesh-Hardwar :: trip briefing
* Moi Image Gallery
* Anikesh's Image Gallery

Spent some time adding a file module (to the website) to share any useful resources like docs, links, maps, pdf, etc. Expect some activity in that corner soon (even for the Leh and, maybe, Gethia).