A TRIP TO KUARI PASS

So,we 5 (me,saumya, dhananjay,karan,dhwanil) started our trip on 18th of December 2020 from Ahmedabad. We had our train in the evening around 5PM to nizamuddin (delhi).
Also just to give you a brief we were going for a trek on our own that means we weren't going with any trek company we decided to do everything by ourselves.
- carrying our luggage.
- setting up of tents.
- cooking our food
And alot of other things
So Dhwani was quite heavy weight and we knew he would have difficulty doing the trek. And as expected he made our trek memorable i'll tell u what happened on the day of summit!

We reached delhi in the morning and we already had booked seats in the bus for the same night, so we had a whole day in delhi as we had bus in the night to rishikesh, so we decided to visit as many places we could and as the result we visited qutub minar, cannaught place and had amazing dinner near jama mazjid, i must say if you like non veg that is the place for you, so we had the bus at 11PM so we went back to our room and packed our stuffs and went to the bus station.

So on day 3 we reached rishikesh in the early morning around 5:30, we already booked our stay in gostops rishikesh which i must say was a wonderful hostel.
So we decided that we'll explore rishikesh jitna humsey ho paaye as on the next day we had to leave for joshimath.
So we went to a waterfall place and it took alot of our time as we had to hike for 5-6km, so after we came back we decided ki ab jaa ke ganga mein dubki lagaani hai but only 2 of us were ready for it because thand bahot thi bhai. But everything goes as unpredicted, so when we went there sbhi ne dubki lagaai kyunki raha nhi jaata 😂
So finally we tried some street food near the ganga ghaat and went back to hostel.

On our day 4 we had to take bus in the early morning for joshimath so we all woke up around 3AM and hot ready and went for the bus station and after taking the bus we reached joshimath in the evening at 5:30 PM
I must say it was veryy coldd 🥶.
So on that day we had to alot of preparations such as we needed to purchase all the required rashans, some equipments and some vegetables too.
So when we finished our preparation we had our dinner and then went to sleep, kyunki jldi uthna tha.

so we woke up and then we had to reach dhak village, from joshimath it's around 11 kms
So after reaching dhak village we started our trek and as expected with just half an hour dhwani was exhausted as he was a bit heavy and was doing it first time, we pushed him motivated him and then he was doing quite good.
But soon problems started and it was cold and when we were walking we were sweating as no matter how much cold is there when u walk putting on ur jackets u sweat, so Dhwani was taking rest after every 20 mins and one of us had to stay with him and trust me it was very scary because when u sweat u don't feel anything but when u stop to take break the chills u fell on ur back it's a nightmare.
So we were getting problem as if we take these many breaks and we take rest this frequently then it would have been a big problem for us to reach the camp siye as qe me had to setup our tents and we had to cook also.
But we somehow managed to reach the 1st campsite,(gulling top) along with dhwani it was almost dark and obviously it was very difficult for us to setup everything in dark but somehow we managed that day, and decided that from tomorrow two of us will head start 2 hours so that we can reach early to the next campsite and prepare everything.
Also the most interesting thing about our first camp day was our mattress, so i'll tell u what happened
We went to sleep and around 2 in the morning i was feeling cold from the ground then i woke up and saw that my air mattress was punctured i don't know how as i had purchased it from decathlon in delhi it was the first time i was using that mattress so i woke up and filled the air in it and somehow slept.

The next day as we had planned that two of us will leave early so we went according to the plan.
And it was indeed a great plan we two( me and saumya) reached their on time and we setup our tents and prepared for fire and then waited for them to come and afterwards when they arrived we cooked our food, ohhhh i forgot one thing on that day too dhwani wasn't able to cope up with then and he told them to go ahead and he'll join them so on that day dhwani reaches 2 hours late after everyone reached to the campsite. So apart from this everything was smooth on that day, we went to sleep.

On the next day we had to move towards our basecamp, so again moving according to the plan me and saumya started early and reached the campsite and did all the preprations, everyone reached, also on that day too dhwani reached 2 hours late after everyone to the campsite so humney ba andaaza laga liya tha that dhwanil takes 2 hour more from all of us i mean he took 4 hours after i and saumya reached to the campsite and 2 hour after dhanajay and karan reached to the campsite.
So on that day too everything was smooth....ohh no no no no no there was one huge problem with us as my mattress got punctured but now after the 2nd day of camping everyone's mattress was punctured except dhanno's so no one was able to sleep at night as we were constantly feeling cold from the ground but somehow we survived that day and went to sleep early as on the next day we had to go for summit, kuari pass summit.