Day 3 ( 14th august, 2006) : Bedni Bugyal to Kurmotolli Bugyal

We had a good night sleep in the tent, although my dear friend Prashant was snoring heavily. It rained in the night which did terrify us as we were wondering that water wud come in, but luckily nothing of that sort happened.



Next morning,, we were little disapointed that it was still drizzling and views of Nandaghuiti and Trishal cud not been seen.

There was one dhaaba still operational so we parantha - aaloo from there and also sum khichdi. Fortunately, the whether cleared around 9 am and we dedeided to move on. Prashant had to get back to his office to Chennei next day , so he made move back to Wan with his porter .


We clicked the parting snap with the Trishul and Nandaghunti before they cud again vanish in clouds.


We than started our trek to Baggubaasa . We were told my guide that, this is th emost difficult leg as we were to gain heights from 3300 mt to 4500 at Baguabassa.
The whethere was not clear and the clouds enveloped the hills again. Maybe tom. we will get good himalayan views.


As we were ascending from Bedni, we came across Ali bugyal. What a sight it was. Ali bugyal was also at it sfull glory and the treleine below grasslands were to good to be true .


As we gained height and reached over Bedni, the sight of Bedni bugyal was awesome
As we were moving on , Nitin was not feeling well and felt weak .



We had to drop our plan to reach Baguabassa decided to camp at Kurmotilli Bugyal.





The flowers at Kurmotolli bugyal were beautiful and freash from the current monsoon.



We also found many horses gazing nearby .It was begining to get dusk and all the animals were returning to their respective sheltors.


The shephard managed to catch hold for us the sheep with the biggest horns !!!


There were few hundred sheeps which were gazing and they came and literally went across our camp. Later on we came to know that the shephard also had a shed near our camp which meant that we were not all alone in the wilderness.

The stove that we were carrying malfunctioned at night as the pressure stick got free !! Luckily, Inder singh still managed to prepare dinner of Khichdi.
This meant that we would not have the luxury of breakfast tom. morning when we had to trek tour final destination i.e. Roopkund. That was such a bad sign.

We had a nightmarish night and a night which I will never forget in my life.
We were carrying a small tent which was just big enough to accommodate three people. We were, hence went to sleep around 7 pm even while it was pouring outside. Then at around 1 am , Nitin shouted that water has come inside the tent. And as bad luck would have it, the water had drifted inside our tent, it had soaked the carrimats and was making our sleeping bags wet so much so that even my jacket, trousers also got wet !!! We had some polythene bags which we cut thru and spread across the floor over our wet carriamts. We tried to get sleep, but how cud one possibly sleep with wet everything inside /outside and the near freezing temperatures with chilly winds outside. This was one of the moments when I have felt so helpless in my life at the destiny of the mother nature !! Anyways, wasnt this supposed to be the adventure for which I had come trekking !!!
The tent was not of a very fine quality and all our guide sahib had not cut the line in ground right above the upper portion of tent which could provide water outlet and thus prevent water from coming inside . Further, out tent was on the slope which meant that the water would eventually drift towards us in good flow.