I was exploring some extended weekend treks as my office colleagues also wanted to come along. After searching and negotiating a lot, no agreeable trek couldn’t be decided and now that I have to travel solo, I finally decided to go for Hampta Pass and Chandratal. Hampta pass trek starts from Manali, Himachal Pradesh. It is a small pass on Pir Panjal range of Himalayas, between Lahaul and Kullu valley in Himachal Pradesh. Vertical rock walls, water falls, hanging glaciers, tiny lakes, peaks rising above 6000 m are main characteristics of this trek. I was very excited about this trek because I was finally getting another chance to see Chandratal.
Kiran was also in town and ready for a weekend trek. We left Delhi on Thursday, 14 July so that we had an extra day before next week starts. Bus to Manali was running late and we reached there around 11A.M. After having heavy lunch around noon, we took a cab for Jobra. It takes an hour and forty hairpin bends to arrive at Jobra, time would have been 2 PM by then. As soon as we arrived we left, as we had planned to reach Balu Ka Ghera on our first day of trek and it was already late. It had rained earlier in the day and path was slippery till Chika village.