The foerst office is behind it but unfortunately opens around 10 AM, so we had plenty of time to kill (read bored). We sat in there sitting area and waited for the staff to arrive.
Me at the forest office
Around 10 AM the staff arrived they are very pleasant people and helped us with our permit and lodge.
Once our formalities were done we could not wait to get started, our destination to start would be Dharamkot a village couple of miles from Dharamshala. We boarded a bus to the Dharmshala bus stand and took a cab from there.
A trekker has two options start the trek from Dharamkot or move a bit up by a cab up to Gallu Devi temple, we chose to start from Dharamkot as we had all the time and energy.
For this blog the number of pictures will be only a handful because my memory card died on me and Happy took some pictures, so this will be an exercise to imagination.
We started from Dharamkot around 12 AM toward Trihund via Gallu Devi temple.
Me all dressed up and using zinc oxide instead of a sun screen
The trek to Trihund is well marked with milestones, I had made a mistake of wearing clothes warmer than required for this trek and I sweat like a pig most of the way. However I am now used to perils of a trek and this did not affect me. For the first time I was able to pace myself while going up with Happy.
There are a number of rest stops along this trek, small tea stalls selling water, snacks and other items allowing you to trek up easily.
Even the most unprepared and unskilled trekkers can reach Trihund easily in 3-5 hours based on fitness.
I think we took a little less than three hours as both of us were prepared and had some skill.
As you finally march into Trihund you are greeted by a small shop that sells food there is a stone near it on which people claim if you stand you get cell phone signal.
Once you move ahead you see a very large number of tents put up by people selling camping services, hence if you do not get a lodge form forest department you can still get accommodation.
The trek itself is simple but for the first time I saw Happy struggling, he has not been working out for a while and that was showing up but he was prepared for it.
We had our lunch which started off with Maggie then some bread and omelet and some more stuff after which we wanted to get the lay of the land. We took a number of pictures walked up and down in the area and met a number of people.
We met a couple of boys from Delhi who also wanted to go upto Laka glacier next day. However Happy was not so sure his back was giving him trouble and he was not so sure if he would climb next day.
We decided to take that up next day and after dinner slept.
The idea was to leave for the glacier by 9 AM and start off back by 2 PM.
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