Wonderful journey through unexplored Himachal during 5th day of MTB Himachal 2010 (Kullu Sarahan to Bahu)
Its been more than one month that we are sharing photographs of 8 days Mountain Terrain Biking Event in Himachal Pradesh... With each day, beauty of the hills are surprising us and fifth day was very special because we had to go to the highest point of the terrain... Check out these Photographs to get a feel of this Journey with Riders form various parts of the world ..
A small village on the way to Bahu, which was our final destination of fifth day of MTB Himachal 2010 .. There were lot of beautiful villages on this whole stretch which were surrounded by huge deodar(cedar) trees and colorful hills...
Most of the houses have these slanted roofs in hills... Because these areas get heavy rainfall and snowfall, so these slopes help water/snow to go down directly to avoid extra load... Most of the houses were made up of rough stones and wood...
Here is a sample road we crossed on fifth day and most of the stretch had these kinds of roads... Its was very exciting ride for most of the riders of MTB Himachal 2010 and they loved it !!!
Girl going back home with cattle in the evening... It was a beautiful site near Kalog Village in Himachal Pradesh...
A Himachali Lady going towards the fields to ensure that crops near the forest are safe... In Hills, monkeys destroy local crops and every day one person from the villages spend whole day in fields to make sure that monkey gang doesn't go into the fields to destroy the crops...
Fifth day was very slow and we had to wait for riders at various places... On fifth day, some children changed the directions on the way and few riders moved to wrong direction... Marshals had to follow them to bring them to right route... So we stopped at that turn to avoid other riders to go in wrong direction...
Blue Sky always.... All of us were delighted to see blue sky which was a common thing during these 8 days of MTB Journey in Shimla and Kullu districts of Himachal Pradesh....
One of the Photographer appreciating natural beauty of the place during fifth day of MTB Himachal 2010 !!!
It was life time experience to explore such places of remote Himachal with passionate riders and create Photographers...
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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Yes, it was a nice event but it was not well planned...