HIMALAIA INDI (12) Batal-Gramphoo
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 30.74 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,237 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 3,238 ft
- Max elevation
- 13,204 ft
- TrailRank
-
42
5
- Min elevation
- 10,697 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 2 hours 54 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3350
- Uploaded
- February 13, 2014
- Recorded
- September 2013
near Kārcha, Himachal Pradesh (India)
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Short stage with little difference but very hard due to the bad state of the track. It is the worst stretch of track of the entire trip, it is also a day of wind, cold and rain.
We rescind the Chandra River (Luna River) for a lunar landscape of rocks, vertical walls and glaciers. Later, this river will join the Bhaga (forming the Chenab River afterwards), which will also take us on a bicycle ride to its head, at 5,000 meters, and finally join the Indus, which will end up leading to the Pakistan.
Despite being a rocky landscape, it is not as barren or desert as the one on the other side of the neck of Kunzum La, which we jumped yesterday, since that was the Valley of Spiti and now we are in the Valley of Lahaul , south face of the Himalayas and therefore more influenced by monsoons and by the humidity coming from the Indian plain. The narrow headwaters of this valley are made up of walls that are thinned by the action of recent glaciers, huge erotic blocks, endless moraines and hanging valleys, all of which make up a spectacular high mountain landscape.
Gramphoo is no more than a crossroads in the middle of nowhere, with some small huts and stone shelters and plastic canvases, where the first first part of the trip ends (Kinnaur and Spiti valleys) and begins the second part (known as Manali-Leh Higway).
We rescind the Chandra River (Luna River) for a lunar landscape of rocks, vertical walls and glaciers. Later, this river will join the Bhaga (forming the Chenab River afterwards), which will also take us on a bicycle ride to its head, at 5,000 meters, and finally join the Indus, which will end up leading to the Pakistan.
Despite being a rocky landscape, it is not as barren or desert as the one on the other side of the neck of Kunzum La, which we jumped yesterday, since that was the Valley of Spiti and now we are in the Valley of Lahaul , south face of the Himalayas and therefore more influenced by monsoons and by the humidity coming from the Indian plain. The narrow headwaters of this valley are made up of walls that are thinned by the action of recent glaciers, huge erotic blocks, endless moraines and hanging valleys, all of which make up a spectacular high mountain landscape.
Gramphoo is no more than a crossroads in the middle of nowhere, with some small huts and stone shelters and plastic canvases, where the first first part of the trip ends (Kinnaur and Spiti valleys) and begins the second part (known as Manali-Leh Higway).
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