Chasing Dreams In The Mountains
The Hiking Club of our college planned for a trek to Deo Tibba during the mid-semester break. I, being an adventurer of sorts gave my name for it without any second thoughts. It was a six day trek starting and ending in Manali. We were a group of 10 people:3 first years,4 second years,2 third years and one staff advisor. Here is a day by day account of the adventures and the new experiences we had during the trek. Day 1 The starting point of the trek was 18 km from the city of Manali. It was a place named Jagatsukh RD12000,a fancy name because there was a hydroelectric plant being set up under HPPCL. We had to sign some forms to enter the site. We had two vehicles with us: one Toyota Qualis to carry us and one 4 by 4 pickup for our luggage. The starting 6km of the path was a pukka road . Then the actual road started;I mean the kutcha road. Driving on it was like driving on the surface of moon. Only SUV’s could travel on a road like that. It was just half way on t...