This IPL weekend in Dharamsala, it was crazy! Lots of cricket fans, traffic jams, important people with big cars, not so important people in bigger cars, Deccan Chargers, Chennai Super Kings and a brief visit from Punjab Kings XI. We took this time to take a small group of people to Triund.
The walk to Triund is an 8 Km trek over mostly easy terrain (gets a little steep towards the end) but the trail being over 2000m throughout, it can get tough for weekend warriors.
Anyway, I was incharge of a group of 4 people from Silver Stripe Outdoors and two of my best friends - Prateek Khurana and Sanjeet Mangat. The former is a young smart ass who almost ran most of the way and latter is my friend for the last 29 years!! A long time for friendships to last so I figured I must be doing things right :)
The weather is great, it is trying to rain hard and keeps the heat down, nights are mostly clear and it is not uncomfortably cold anymore.
It was also nice to see the efforts being made to keep Triund clean was actually working! Trash was segregated, the shop keepers were spouting newly learned facts about garbage and they were genuinely involved in cleaning the place up. Too good to be true? It is up to us now to encourage this change and support it.
All in all great weekend - good friends, clean trails and great weather...
The walk to Triund is an 8 Km trek over mostly easy terrain (gets a little steep towards the end) but the trail being over 2000m throughout, it can get tough for weekend warriors.
Anyway, I was incharge of a group of 4 people from Silver Stripe Outdoors and two of my best friends - Prateek Khurana and Sanjeet Mangat. The former is a young smart ass who almost ran most of the way and latter is my friend for the last 29 years!! A long time for friendships to last so I figured I must be doing things right :)
The weather is great, it is trying to rain hard and keeps the heat down, nights are mostly clear and it is not uncomfortably cold anymore.
It was also nice to see the efforts being made to keep Triund clean was actually working! Trash was segregated, the shop keepers were spouting newly learned facts about garbage and they were genuinely involved in cleaning the place up. Too good to be true? It is up to us now to encourage this change and support it.
All in all great weekend - good friends, clean trails and great weather...
1 comment:
Has Triund really changed that much? I was there in March and did not see any of this stuff there!!
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