Trek to Roopkund -1 week of June-Likeminded travel partner required.

@saravanarajendra You are welcome ,buddy . Do send a PM(private message) to me and to Abhijit so that we can send you the detailed trek details and the list of logistics required. Abhijit has prebooked everything and It will be good if you can share your travel plan details.
Your's confirmation only will help us in arranging some extra logistics required when a new member join in for the trek.

Good to see lot guys are heading to roopkund. Seems to have fun there.

we have done rafting from rishikesh...can you rate the rapid..btw we are going to roopkund ronti on 29th may..

No obviously not. I haven't done any kind of rafting yet. I just stated what I have heard from others.

Well I wish I had the time to make upto ronti.


Nice catch line by the way...

My friend went to Rishikesh just 2 days ago . He was saying there is a 17 km stretch of rafting and there are only 9 times you will feel the thrill .It cost him Rs 500 but din't got the adrenaline rush as he was expecting.As per his saying there are only level 3 of rapids.

He also tried bungie jumping that cost him Rs 2500 excluding Rs 300 for transport .And they were charging a whooping Rs 750 for video recording and no photography are allowed there

@Commando

Good...

Yup!!!! there are 3 major and 6 minor rapids...though 1 of the 3 majors is huge...you can say 15 to 20 ft high tides are coming from a stream...that was a hard one though...& there was a jumping point in the middle of the river where you have to jump from 25 to 30 fts...we did this oct 2011..

How will be the weather in June 1st-2nd week ? I'm planning to do the trek through Indiahikes since its my 1st experience.

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Will it be raining ?? Don't want to get caught in a rain the whole trip.

Hard to predict that; it's early right now (keep a watch through Accuweather and other links on net); always safe to keep raincoat to protect yourself.

We did in Mid' June last year and it used to rain every day in afternoon.

Probably yes....you will get caught by rain if you are not very lucky...better take a raincoat with yo...
enjoy your trekking!!

@nkothiyal & @Legend - Thanks for the reply.

Asking because I havn't used it before. Won't a Fleece jacket suffice instead of a raincoat ? Don't want to carry additional things.

As long as it can save you from water and winds.

Guys...good to see people flocking to the Roopkund...we are just four absolute rookies planning to take the plunge from 2nd to 6th June...will do a rafting fling before that @ Rishikesh...just wanted some advise beforehand as to how tough this is going to be for absolute rookies like us to be doing the Roopkund...any contacts that might be of some help regarding bookings and equipments would be a great help...

I am also a rookies with no experience on the mountains and have never seen snow in my life, as i belong to coastal area. I think its more a mental preparation than a physical one . Read some post on AMS , HACE and HAPE as we will be ascending to to a height of more than 5000m . As far as the difficulty level is there are places of easy to difficult level of ascent .I and Abhijit Mitra's group will rendezvous at Rishikesh on 2nd Jun and from there we will start our onward journey the next day.
On equipment front if you are planning to get to the Junargali Pass then what i have know from other IM members and fellow trekkers that its advisable to equip your group with ice axe , ropes and yes raincoats are a must in that time(who knows when Indra dev will be smiling on us and bless in the form of rain).

I have come across the below blogs , which i think may also help you:-

A blog by jyotipg:-

Exploring the World Beyond Roopkund

and one from Neelima

http://www.travelwithneelima.com/200...-to-didna.html

and all about AMS,HAPE,HACE:-

http://www.basecampmd.com/expguide/diamox.shtml

need some contact no of guides...already have mahinder no...