I was planning a trek to the Valley of flowers with Bikat adventure this Monsoon. But due to bad weather condition in Uttarakhand, I decided to postpone it for another month. I contacted Mr. Girish for another option as I had already applied for my leaves. He suggested me Hampta pass trek. In the spur of the moment and without giving it a second thought, I booked it within next one hour while I was still in office. I had a bus from Mandi house to Manali- that I had booked with HPTDC. I was skeptical about doing the bus travel alone. But I met another Solo traveler before and got talking.Later I found out that he was hesitant of his initial plan of Visiting Spiti with some random travel company because of their poor response. I invited him to do the Hampta pass trek with bikat adventure. He was delighted with my invitation and happily agreed to join us. Now all we needed was bikat's approval for this last minute booking. Again Girish came as my savior and helped him in booking and other arrangements.
Since I was traveling solo I was Happy and excited for this unexpected way of beginning of the trek. I was not aware about the no. of females joining me on the trek.I was happy to see so many females for the trek. I was delighted to see that 7 out of a batch of 13 were females.
Day 1
Our trek began from Jobri village which was the base camp one and half hour drive from Manali. We were two groups. So in total we were 27 including 23 participants. Knowing my experience of trekking in the past Shubham, our trek guide asked me to walk in the front. But I knew that I have a slow pace so I volunteered to walk in the end. I had to make sure that no one is left behind. This is how I saved myself from the embarrassment of being the last in the group.
