a hike.

so greg made it back from his adventures in indonesia awhile back, and it was my weekend off so the three of us headed off into the hills for a little weekend trek. our goal was nag tibba, the highest peak near here, just below 10,000ft. so we were up at 5:30 saturday morning, after an hour and a half drive we made it to the trailhead.



the villagers were out busily working in the fields getting ready for the spring plant. it was pretty neat seeing all of the cows plowing away, men and women working away together, and of course all of the other animals running around and the village kids swarming around us as we passed through.



this is a view down from where we'd come... but our first day was a bit of an adventure... we had some topographical maps, an old trail description but that's it. and of course here in india they don't believe in marking any trails, it would just be too easy. some of our directions were "the trail becomes increasingly hard to see and find" or "walk up until you can't handle it anymore"... so, we took a wrong turn and ended up a little lost, but we made camp after 8 hours of hiking and eventually found our bearings.


we woke up early sunday morning and decided to give the peak a shot. so greg and i took off without our heavy packs and after what seemed like forever of climbing we reached it. it was pretty cold up there, with some snow, and we could imagine some amazing views, but it was pretty cloudy so we didn't get to see too much.




one of the highlights of the trip down was the "photo" guy. he stopped us as we passed asking if we had a camera. greg pulled his out and soon enough he was ordering us around and getting us to pose in different ways in his "hinglish". we had a good chuckle at the "romantic" one... and then of course the catch... a fee for his amazing professional services. so we coughed up a few rupees and were on our way.