Weekend Treks in Uttarakhand

The trek is suitable for beginners, although you should come prepared in regards to walking on inclined surfaces. Please note that Thrillophilia is only a booking platform and the trek is organised by an agency called The Searching Souls. As this was my first experience, I can say that the money and efforts were worth it. We got to see lots of snow when we reached the Gui camp site. The food served on the trek had variety and was good. Some drawbacks would be the toilet arrangements at the camp site which should be improved in the near future. Overall, I will rate this as 4/5.

After all the biking trips in the Himalayas I wanted to try something different when this idea of trekking popped in my mind. Since this was my first trek, I was searching for something of easy-moderate difficulty when I came across this Nag Tibba Trek. After going through the details and reading the reviews and blogs of previous treckers I readily booked Nag tibba trek organised by Thrillophilia for 2/3 March 2019. And now i can say it was the best decision I made. Our trek leader Bachan Rana and his team were very helpful, concerned and kept motivating and inspiring us. The food served was delicious. You can't expect more in such harsh terrain. It was beyond expectations. They also gave proper guidance regarding waste and garbage management and the need to protect the environment.Though for beginners like me it was never from any angle an easy trek, but the beauty and serenity of nature and the enthusiasm to trek in snow and reach the summit kept me going.After being picked up from Dehradun, we were taken to Pantwari village from where we started the trek. Though its quite steep in the beginning, soon we got acclimatised. We were served lunch in between and after 5-6 hours of trek, we reached our base camp. There we were served with Tea, snacks, soup and dinner later that night. All the hard work paid off as soon we began our trek in the early morning of the 2nd day as the path was covered with white, glistening snow. As we kept moving the snow cover kept getting thicker. It was such a delightful experience. We reached the summit by 11 am. To our surprise, our trek leader carried sandwiches for us which was served to us at the summit. Hats Off for that. After spending some quality time at the summit, we started descending back to base camp, where we had our lunch. After it, we descended further to Pantwari from where we were transported back to Dehradun bringing an end to the adventurous trek and many memories for lifetime.

Mr Bachan Rana, is an awesome guide. He led the whole team of 80 trekkers to the summit with safety and encouraged each one of us through out the trek.

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My group and I trekked up to Nag Tibba. I loved this trek – it was a fun challenge which we were more than rewarded for with stunning views of beautiful mountains, Jungle Trail, Both guides were fantastic for the following reasons. First, there was a high degree of professionalism. They knew the route well, Everything ran perfectly smoothly and there were no organizational issues. Overall, I loved my experience trekking with thrillophilia Team Group.

This whole trek is of 11 km which can be broadly divided into 3 stages (4+4+3)km. First stage (4km) - When you reach pantawari village, a walk of 4km will be there to Nag tibba base camp. It is a tottaly rocky terrain with a quite steep slope you won't find any plain path. This walk is difficult as it is rocky terrain, steep and sudden change in altitude results in short breath. On this way there are some maggie points and natural springs. After reaching to base camp a much beautiful scenic view can be seen. Total time to reach here is 2.5 to 3 hours. Stage 2 (4km) - In the next morning you will be taken to Nag temple. This route is quite easy as your body till now has been acclimatized with the surrounding, there is no rocky terrain and the way is also not too steep. This can be done in 2 hours. You wont find any maggie point or springs on this route. The only water source available is at the temple. If you are unlucky that too will be frozen. Stage 3 (3km) - From nag temple to the Summit, the shortest and the toughest. When I went there, it's literally 5-6 feet of snow, out of 40 persons who had been come to visit nag tibba they just able to went till the temple. Only we four guys and our guide (Rawat Ji) went up till the summit. Most challenging part was to walk on the fresh snow with this much of depth. My friend was an army officer, so he and our guide both started to mark trail on the snow and we just followed there footsteps. Its was a 60 degree steep slope. But once you reach to the summit its really an amazing moment and view. Fresh snowfall made this trek difficult for us otherwise it is easy we have done this trek without any special equipment and we really did this in our sport shoes. But a request if your guide says that he cant take you to the summit as there is lots of snow kindly agree to him. With 5-6 feet of snow it not even difficult but dangerous too.