Patalsu peak winter summit.

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So after having a lunch below the ridge, we got the energy that we need to hike further.
We slowly started walking and after walking for half an hour, we were running out of water. We were feeling more thirsty after having such a heavy lunch, so we drank all our water and now all we had was a single bottle of water.

The stream of water from which we sourced water previously originated from a nearby creek. So we went in search of water again. This time, there was a little hope of finding the water as we were quite high and the water that was being fed in that stream of water was coming from down below.

So, me and my brother went in search of water while we asked our father to stay at the trail and have some rest as we moved little of ftrack towards the creek and looked behind. We were able to see mighty peak of Hanuman Tibba.

Hanuman Tibba covered with clouds

Very little water was coming from inside the creek, so it took us 15 minutes to fill a single water bottle. However, the view from there was amazing, it felt like we were on the top of the valley and whole valley was visible from there.

The pictures are not at all paying justice to the view that we were seeing with the naked eyes. It was unreal!

After filling the water bottle, we started heading back towards the trail to continue our journey ahead. We were tired, but the motivation of being on the top pushed us.

The terrain was completely changed now. It was huge loose rocks with no vegetation. The hike was getting difficult with each step. However, we were now quite near to the summit.

When we were navigating through the maps, we saw two different summits of this peak. As already mentioned the further hike was full of loose rocks and during winter days, it’s quite hard to climb over them as it becomes dangerous. Therefore, there are two summits of this peak One is winter summit and one is actual summit. The winter summer is quite lower to the actual summit, but that’s the maximum possible altitude that one can do safely during the months of winters.

Now we were higher above the ridge end. The hike was getting difficult with each step. It was getting slippery and taking each step was checking a lot more energy than it usually took as we were on high altitude now.

Ridge visible in the background

We could see trail markings up here too. On the loose rock It’s quite hard to mark the trail as they keep on moving with each step, but this mark was visible. We could see a little bit of winter Summit from here too.

Upon moving for about 20 minutes, we could see winter summit. Clearly, there was a vertical rock that was made to stand there just to make sure that everyone notices it.

Winter summit of Patalsu Peak

As the client was getting difficult, so few of our friends they were left behind, and we were also tired so we waited for them just before summiting the summit.

The extreme weather and cold temperatures had made the rocks of this place, cut into many pieces. There was continuous erosion from the snow and the fast wind has also made them look the way they are looking now.

After climbing above those rocks, we were on the winter summit of Patalsu Peak. We could see the foothills of seven sister mountain range and some of the higher mountains like CB 60 and Ghrpan Peak were also visible from there.

View from the winter summit

Upon looking down from there, we wonder how much we have travelled in a day and we were feeling proud of ourselves, though we were very tired from the climb, but the views from up there motivated us to even climb up to the actual summit. I’m gonna write about my expedition to actual summit in next blog.

That’s all for today.

Thanks for passing by.

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