Fifth Day of MTB Himachal 2010 - Highest peaks of Jalori Pass welcomed us with Snowfall - 27th October 2010
Hope you have been enjoying the PHOTO JOURNEY of MTB Himachal 2010 and it's fifth day now ... Everyone has left Kullu Sarahan Camp and first stretch has started .... ON fifth day we had to reach Baahu for camping... We crossed Baghipul, Urtu, Nithar, Bandal, Kutal, Kalog, Durah, Nithar, Jalori and finally reached Bahu... Check out these photographs from fifth day of Bike Riding....
Mr. Ankit Sood and Sumit Sond, two PHOTOQUEST participants .... Both of them were very energetic and on fifth day of MTB Himachal, they decided to have Buggy ride... I had a good company with Ankit, Sumit, Surbhit and Jimsee... Real Artists !!!
Riders moving towards Jalori Pass which had recently got snowfall... everyone excited to hit the place with snow and have some fun in white...
Real Engineers of India who make our lives comfortable... Here is a Photograph of daily-wage worker on th side of a road under harsh sun.. He is breaking big stones into appropriate sized pieces for repairing the adjacent road...
During fifth day, we were traveling on very high and narrow roads ... Here is one of the view we had from the edge of a road ... A Photograph of Satluj River crossing various hurdles of Himalayas...
Finally whole Group of MTB Himachal riders reached Jalori Pass... here is the beginning of the mountains with snow... Most of the mountains at Jalori Pass had recently got snowfall and Bangar hills were just behind these hills....
I also wanted to have one photograph with these riders in front of Bangaar Hills but unfortunately snow covered Bangaar Hills are not clear in this Photograph...
This is the point where we had to start the uphill Stretch and we are standing here to make sure that every rider take the hidden cut rather than going straight towards Aanni... Most of the Photographers were asked to stop at tis point because the road ahead was narrow and we didn't want to block the road for riders....
Since we were waiting at this point, I though to trying some panning shots here and here is one of the panning shot of rider flying towards Baahu...
This journey was wonderful journey through scenic roads with naturally rich hills in Himalayan Ranges of Himachal .. Really MTB Himachal 2010 provided a great opportunity to explore unexplored Himalayan beauty...
Here is a photograph of a Himachali Village which came on the way to Baahu...
Seeing waterfalls, snow covered hills, beautiful houses was a common thing during this journey of MTB Himalayas ...
Its evening time now and time to take rest at Baahu Camp....
CHECK OUT OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS OF MTB HIMACHAL 2010 by CLICKING LINKS BELOW:
Last Stretch on Second Day in MTB Himachal 2010 - To Reach Camp at Tani Jubbar Lake
Third day of MTB Himachal 2010 - Tanni Jubber to Kullu Sarahan
Beautiful Journey till Baghipul (On Third Day of MTB Himachal 2010)
![Morning Photographs of MTB Himachal 2010 at Tanni Jubber Camp on Third Day : Posted by VJ SHARAMA on www.travellingcamera.com Hope you have already checked photographs of THIRD DAY OF MTB HIMACHAL 2010 and here are few more photographs of starting of the day... We started from Tanni Jubber in the morning and this posting have some photographs of early part of the day... Check it out..Peter... I have seen him ready before time (everyday) and used to take sunbath till the time other folks get ready for final march... Most of the folks used to get ready on time, but somehow we never started on time :)Early morning colors of Tanni Jubber Lake in Himachal Pradesh....Everyone is ready and waiting in the main ground.. Lunch and other stuff is being loaded to the trucks on the left and other folks just having sunbath in chilling winters on Himalayas...Longer shadows of Riders and their bikes in early Morning of third day @ Tanni Jubber, Himachal Pradesh..Its the beginning and show for the day has to start yet.. So keep watching this space for other adventurous moments of Third day ...](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR3LHW0ToPTQUm8ys_fLCIlzTQPud6OrraVEJ9XE8VbOQmjS1VtuuQ6l1skAvn7pi2W0AEZXkZ-V7ZILm3xmTgXzEbTFcy0-rGsm78Tdc63RKUnSl6MTbkFMAzNH1kdpPIYCBWaS-OI2Rd/s200/Morning+Photographs+of+MTB+Himachal+2010+at+Tanni+Jubber+Camp+on+Third+Day-2.jpg)
![MTB Riders on highest speed in the downhill stretch parallel to snow covered mountain ranges (On Third day) : Posted by VJ SHARMA on www.travellingcamera.com : Hope you have been enjoying this PHOTO JOURNEY through various routes of MTB Himachal 2010... Its 10th post on this great Himalayan event for passionate bike Riders... on third day, I noticed the highest speed of all the riders in a downhill stretch in parallel to snow capped mountain ranges... Check out some of the photographs of this downhill stretch across snow covered hills...First I wanted to give you a feel of the road where we were waiting to catch fast riders of MTB Himachal 2010... Road was situated on a very high hill in parallel to these mountains covered with snow... wonderful place with nice weather and beautiful surroundings...Here comes a group of riders and Cameras are not set to estimate their speed and adjust accordingly... It took time to adjust our cameras to shoot exactly what we wanted to shoot... At least I tried various things with first few riders and was able to identify right place with right settings....They were moving like anything.... Amazing actions, styles n movements...Even folks on the road were moving downwards toward the deep valley to save themselves fom these fast moving riders :) btw he is another Photographer struggling to set himself for shooting this rider...Rider number 41 ... Most of the riders knew each other by their rider numbers and it was difficult to remember the names of everyone but was very easy to know each other by rider nunber because they were sepnding most of the time on the roads crossing each other...Another rider on full speed in the middle of beautiful himalayan mountains in the state of Himachal Pradesh.... Thanks to MTB Himachal 2010...Mr. Ranjan Mandyal playing in air during MTB Himachal 2010... I got a chance to meet some great folks who have passion about bke riding and do lot of other good things in their lives... Ranjan was one of the guy I met and got a chance to understand him better... Hope to meet all of them again :)Here is another MTb rider in style... moving towards the final goal which is near Satluj river near main highway..Amcha rider from Maharshtra Police... a nice photographer as well... He was planning to host an exhibition in Kolkata and also invited us... Hope to see him next year again...Somehow I wanted to share all these photographs in black and white but it would have been unfair to the colorful beauty of surrounding himlayan mountains....Loved this journey and the colors of himalayas...](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiujDySWbUmCezPFUvCaBAE0Rr64Y9qvjYBJCUeNoFI3y3nEm0KM-mXf_i3Yp6AXRT937eog57s93Dy_yXi5ToQbyxwYK8PC1Uw0opwe576inb_ldBB557QKksgg5J9u6_9JOh2VUO-kNZ9/s200/MTB+Riders+on+highest+speed+in+the+downhill+stretch+parallel+to+snow+covered+mountain+ranges+%2528on+Third+day%2529-01.jpg)
MTB Riders on highest speed in the downhill stretch which was parallel to snow covered mountain ranges (On Third day)
![Beautiful Journey till Baghipul on third day of MTB Himachal 2010 : Posted by VJ SHARAMA on www.travellingcamera.com : On third day, we had lunch at a very beautiful place which was situated on a very high mountain on the way to nirmand... We had a 30 minutes break for lunch and moved for next milestone... Some part of this road was really scary and beautiful as well.. Just have a look at some of the photographs clicked post lunch and this journey completely at baghipul.. but that was not the last destination.. everyone had to ride the bikes for 12 kilometers.. It was free ride but it took a lot of time because of the rough road till Kullu Sarahan...All such seens were very scary but as I have mentioned many times that we learnt over the time that riders are much more efficient & alert as we used to think... They had full control in spite of amazing speed on these roads... Be it a downhill or an uphill, they were simply amazing... Many times it was frustrating for photographers because our van was not able to catch up with their speed...Shadows are telling about the time and now its less than 1/4th of the stretch but most time consuming, especially Baghipul to Sarahan Village... I hope you noticed snow covered hills in the background :)A new road, just created by Patel Contructions Ltd.. There was a huge project going on near the Satluj River... Lovely views from this place and we couldn't afford to have a break and shot the beauty there.. All these photographs have been clicked from a moving van....Beautiful landscapes but no time to shoot them :( .... Whole group had to be very fast because we needed more time during the last stretch where we had to climb a hill with the slope of 70 degree and it was 12 kilometers from the base site to the main camping area in Sarahan... This place are parallel to Shrikhand Mahadev...Even the peaks with snow cover are a part of Shrikhand mountain range ... One of the popular trek in Himachal Pradesh... Actually it was a pilgrimage site but now a days many trekkers go their to experience amazing beauty of the nature...Roads... 8 days on roads but all were different and more exciting for riders... They always got a new challenge during each day of MTB Himachal 2010...A view of Satluj River from the road which connects Shimla with Nirmand Village or base site for Shrikhand Mahadev(jaon village)...Here is another side of Satluj.. Both the photographs have been clicked from same place... This one is the left side and above one is of right side... wonderful view of Satluj in the middle of very high hills of Himalayas...Another Photograph of Satluj river flowing through Himalayan ranges.. Photograph click during MTB Himachal 2010...Main profession in Himachal - Agriculture and the fields are shining like anything...](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglBKlz3ouNtS3cvdFaUd16k_0N-JCVtP2C7oqkBl9MUaHI7TZMGOzmTgMco-EYHQmmQc7lxDsKXSo6nOskz73CkgTpu0SwBRVnEbuZqCtPcD_X0GeReB7QyntX-xHCKFdSQ7FOWbgQFor1/s200/Beautiful+Journey+till+Baghipul+on+third+day+of+MTB+Himachal+2010-01.jpg)
Please keep in mind that I was not a rider in this event and can't comment anything about the difficulty level of these stretches... If I have mentioned anything about the same, that's my personal opinion and feel free to correct me...
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