August 10, 2013
Budhanilkantha-Nangki
Gumba-Helipad-Jagadol-Kapan
Last Saturday’s (3 Aug) ride was cancelled due to incessant rain
and also due to our skipper’s leave that day. The rain god compensated and today’s ride was in a very cordial atmosphere. No
rain, no scorching sun, the clouds gave a cool and serene environment.
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10th August
2013 Saturday Ride: Destination : Budhanilkantha-Nangki Gumba-Helipad-Jagadol-Kapan
| Meet point: Narayan Gopal Chowak | Meet Time: 6:15AM | Departure: 6:30AM
Today’s trail has been done previously also. All the Mud
Trailers knew that the climb from Budhanilkantha to entrance of Shivapuri
National Park is steep and demanding. No wonder after seeing the notification
of the ride there were more NO than YES. Only five of us participated in the
ride. We waited for some time in meet point (Narayan Gopal Chowk) for one of
the YES voter but left soon when the voter did not respond to our call. There
were other groups on the same route, bigger and pros than us who were doing the
similar circuit. We started from the meet point, stopped for tickets at the
entryance of the park, continued the uphill trail till Taare Bhir and then started downhill for a km or so and then
stopped for our breakfast. (plain RARA jhol
haleko, missed Robinson for he would ensure eggs, biscuits etc on our plate.) After breakfast continued
downhill to helipad from where single track trail started till it joined a
bigger track near Gokarna. Again we diverted from main road, took a single
track, which brought us to Kapan Gumba. After having hot lemon in one of the
eateries in Kapan, we all headed back.
By the time I reached home it was only 11:30 and the home
folks were kind of surprised as why so early!! It was mainly due to the fact
that we did not stop idling and only stopped for breakfast and hot lemon.
I had used EveryTrail to capture my ride, but this also
comes with some handicaps. At one point the map marker shows a straight line,
which signifies it did not get GPS signal. The result - it tabulated the total
distance as 33 kms. The web page is given below.
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| Small Group |
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| Taare Bhir |
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| Including Me (small group) |
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| Breakfast Point |
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| Cloudy Cool Day |
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| Other Bikers |
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| Other Bikers |
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| Other Bikers |
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| Kathmandu |
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| Kathmandu |
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| Trail |
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| Hot Lemon point |
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| Kapan Gumba |
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| Kapan Gumba |
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| Kathmandu from Kapan Gumba |
CHEERS TO MUDTRAILERS...I CAN JUST ENJOY THE TRAILS THROUGH THE PICS...I MISS MY SATURDAY RIDE WITH MUDTRAILERS...
ReplyDeleteNice recollections. Keep it up Chetan Dai!!
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