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  TRAIL RUN OVER THE HOLLOW HILLS Trail Run  Hills and Mountains have fascinated my soul ever since myself was of around one feet of height! I always wanted to see what lies behind that hill or the mountain. But I didn’t knew, one day I’d have an epic trail run over the hollow hill. When ever I go hiking to the new hills or the mountains or even go the same hill or mountains. The curiosity always gets refreshed.

 Free Tips For Monsoon Trekking Monsoon is one of the most beautiful season in North India and presents some of the best views in the Mountains. The hills become all green. Then there are the Gaddi shepherds grazing their flock of sheep and goat. Monsoon season usually starts from mid to the end of June and lasts till the first week of the September month. The views after rain are crystal clear with no smudge of pollution or smoke.The Sunrise happens to be clear and same with the Sunsets. But very recently, things have changed drastically due to the Climate Change and Global Warming. Nowadays Monsoon season is seen as a threat. Climate change has changed the pattern of rainfall in the monsoon season. There are news of the landslides every other day along with floods. Landslides are common but it has increased very recently. So trekking and hiking in the season of Monsoon is almost considered unsafe. There are parts and places where you can undertake day hikes and even long days tre...

Billing Hiking Trekking and Camping How to Go Hiking Trekking to Billing View of Water Tank to the right of Bir Billing Road Just to your left, you will notice a rough trail going northward, here is a map link for the Bir-Billing Jungle Trail. The Bir Billing Jungle Trail The trail for the temple of Mata Shatvadini Temple of Mata Shatvdini   The Bir Billing Jungle Trail The View of Forth Trail and Road Intersection from steep point of Bir Billing Jungle Trail Billing, the Second Best Paragliding Launch site of Asia in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India

Thatharna Trek Clean Up After another high mountain trail tracing, we were able to embrace Dhauladhar Mountain. Along the way comes, Thatharna hill. Thatharna trek is another grazing point, used by the shepherds and local cattle herders. From an altitude of around 2,640 meters, Thatharna boasts 360-degree view of Dhauladhar Mountains and Kangra valley.   As usual, the sunset view from Thatharna trek is spell bounding. Thatharna calls for some effort and energy to climb up and reach there. Trek to Thatharna starts from Kharota village and goes uphill, a steep climb. The trek has the burnt of years of mining of slate. Some of the slate mines are illegal and some have valid license. From Kharota, the trail goes through few houses and then a temple to our right-hand side. Kharota village had few home-stay options but now we have hotels and campsites as well. You can reach Khadota via Dharamshala then Khanyara town. You can also reach Kharota via Sidhpur then Khanyara. There are ...

 Mountains Dhauladhar being mighty mountains from centuries are still humble and their beauty teaches the fellow trekkers and hikers to be modest and generous to each other and in day to day life. Yet most of the trekkers going over Triund and pass Dhauladhar are reluctant to learn being humble instead they behave opposite. 90% of trekkers don’t greet fellow trekkers while they pass along nor even smile they simply ignore the fellow trekkers and move on. Trekking is no fun if one doesn’t greet or smiles to fellow trekkers. Without any politeness the trekking to such beautiful, lively and humble mountains is just like Show off and full of ego. These mountains have been on this beautiful earth before humans and have seen generations of humans come and go.…humans will come and go but these mighty mountains will remain as they are till the end of the World…so we all should learn to be generous and humble to each other during trekking and in our regular lives.

 Panchal Deva Mountains How was our Date with Death at Panchal Deva Mountains HOW OUR DATE WITH DEATH AT PANCHAL DEVA RANGE   They hire two senior guides for their exit trek from one of the remotest points. All of it started with one experienced trekker, two trekkers and businessmen. One energetic wanderer and one amateur trekker all from Himachal Pradesh. It was the beginning of our Date with Death. The two senior guides are Shri Durga Ram and Shri Maan Singh Gurung! First day of trekking starts with some easy to moderate walk through dense forest. With all black shades, Ravi River runs madly beside the trail. We did not knew this was the beginning of our Date with Death at Panchal Deva Range. The trail has constant and clearly visible huge footprints of chubby and furry wild friend. It reminded to us that we are venturing in the home of the Brown and the Black Bear!   The first days walk turned out easy and long. But it was refreshing with beautiful fragrance of the her...