While many people abort their travelling plans when its snowing and temperature drops to sub zeros,
others see it as an opportunity to make an unforgettable , special, and
challenging experience
After much deliberation and due diligence on which trek to choose, I opted for Kedar Kantha for December 23rd batch. I booked my tickes and was done with the registration in September and was dying to kill time. In fact I was actually counting days left for the trek. As it was my first trekking experience. I was truly in love for this trek.
Day 1: Bombay to Dehradun
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Took a flight from Mumbai to Dehradun (Jolly Grant
Airport). Dehradun Airport is in a village called Doiwala which is about half
an hour run from Dehradun city. My relatives came to pick me up from Airport. Since
Dehradun is my hometown so I have lot of relatives in and around Dehradun. Next
day was the start of trek. I reached Dehradun Railway station at sharp 7 am. We
waited there for all the trekkers to reach, as many of them were reaching by train
(Mussorie Express which starts from Delhi at 11:55 pm and reach Dehradun at
around 6:00 am). Thankfully the train was not late on that day. Soon we boarded
the taxies for Sankari. We halted near Kempty falls (Mussorie) for breakfast
and at Purola for Lunch. At Purola they say Kedarkantha Peak is visible but
that’s all rumour we tried watching out for the Peak and it wasn’t there. We
reached Sankri at around 5:30 pm. It was going to be a chilled night. We could
feel the drop in temperature.
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Introduction Round - an ice breaking event..Day 2 Sankri Juda Ka Talab
We got up at 6:00 am in the morning and didn’t feel like
coming out of our cozy beds. But a beautiful morning was waiting for us. We did
a jogging exercise and a short trek (half and hour) to warm up ourselves. By
this time we were acclimatized for this altitude temperature.
After having breakfast we started our trek to Juda Ka Talab.
We followed a road to Har Ki Dun and just after walking for 15 minutes the
trail to JKT starts. The trail went uphill to our right hand side and we could
see the frozen water running across the trail.
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