Triund Trek: Ordinary to Extra Ordinary- A journey to the Mountains

It’s been a long time when I wrote something. I was either busy in travelling or college works. It’s not like I did not want to write but I was just thinking what should I write next. I already said that I have so many stories to tell you but what should be the sequence? I decided that I will close my eyes and the first place will come in front of me, I will write about that only.  As per the plan, I did the same and saw a green tent…Triund. Yes I found my subject. I was in triund few months back and there I stayed in tents. -4 degree bone chilling weather, frozen water, big mountains covered with snow, everything was there. So let me, again, take you to the mighty Himalayas. 

A beautiful evening at the base camp

Journey partner

Metro peak

Base Camp

View from the tent

My tent

Night shot

Night shot

I love mountains and whenever I get a chance to be there, I go. The journey of triund was also like the same as others. Triund is not that much unique and special, neither it is situated at that much height. But still, somehow I managed to convert this ordinary trip into an extra ordinary one. So everything started with one single question, where to go next? I have been to so many places in Himachal but never had been to Dharamshala and Mcleodganj. So I decided to go there. Dharamshala was 6 hours from Phagwara. I started in the evening and reached in the mid night. It was quite cold there. Jeet, my friend, had some contacts in Dharamshala so we managed to get a cheap hotel.  Next day we just roamed here and there. Dharamshala and Maclodganj are quite famous places so it was crowd there. I don’t feel comfortable in noise. I mean yes I was at a hill station, beautiful place, beautiful sceneries, monks and monasteries but what’s the point when all places are fully occupied by people from all over India and world. 

It was supposed to be a short trip. Just go and come types but since we were not satisfied, we decided to extend our trip and move further to Triund. Triund is a small trek which has two different routes from Mcleodganj. I have been trekking from the last few years so I thought it should not be tough for me. We started in the afternoon and as soon as I moved up, I started feeling weights. My breath was getting heavy. I was not able to understand that why the hell it is happening. I realized that I have put on a lot of weight, from 63 kg to 79 kg. It was quite tough for me to get on the top. Thanks to Jeet and other passerby who motivated me keep going. As soon as I reached at the base camp, I forgot every pain, every problem and every single shit from the outer world. It was very calm there. Mountains covered with snow, small camps and just 4 people. The base camp was not at the Triund and from there it took 2 more hours to reach there. Next day we started for Triund and once I reach there, I realized that the situation is not much different from Dharamshala and Mcleodganj. Noise, Punjabi songs in full volume on big speakers, rush, plastics. These things were more enough to push us back to the base camp. We stayed there for few hours and returned back to the base camp. 

Sometimes all you need is no one but only you for yourself. I was doing the same thing. For 5 days I was disconnected from the outer world. No friends, no family, no university, no work and no students but just me. It was one of the most brilliant memories I have got.