Visiting Dates: 19[SUP]th[/SUP] June night to 22[SUP]nd[/SUP] June night.
Destination: Spin Khwar Lake and Izmis Lake in Utror,Kalam
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Dear Pak Wheelers
Run, Run, Run?.. It must be the title of our recent tour/ trek to Kalam Lakes. We left office at 14:30 to catch the Bus of 16:00 for Islamabad. Hardly manage to catch it on time. Next target was to catch the coaster for Migora and time to catch it was 21:00. We were half hour late and one of the member was even more so not only missed the 21:00 but 22:00 too and managed to take seats in 23:00 Coaster. Reached Mingora about 04:30. Run, run, run?Took(even catched) two Rickshaws to reach at Green Chowks for Kalam Vans. Van was also like the habit of run, run, run and finally we reached Kalam just before 09:00. Breakfast; Purchase some remaining eatables and arrangement of vehicle till Gatal or Liddo Village was our next tasks of run, run, run series.
Breakfast & eatable: I searched the whole kalam on foot for bread or Bun for our next days breakfast but the whole Kalam have nothing to show us even the picture of Bread(Double Roti J ). Meanwhile the dinner items for First night was arranged by Imran. Same thing happened with the 4*4 for Liddo Village. We never spotted such a decreased number of jeeps in Kalam. Finally a new comer driver escorted us to Utror and onward. He was a new comer and instead of our polite indications he continued his joyous pace of walking(instead of running). We can say, he along with his ride was walking and we all four were run, run and run. Reached utror at 11:00. Arranged the porter c u m guides there i.e. the Great Ghani and Super Sajjad?..Story will be opened with the passage of time.
Start of Trek: Reached near Gatal Village beside the deserted hotel and thanks to Almighty now there were a wooden Bridge to cross it. Started our trek at 12:00. Reached Liddo in one hour. Left one of the porter with the luggage here and took second one to Spin Khour with us. It took us further 2:30 to 3:00 hours to reached at the destination. Trek itself was beautiful and all the time continuous steep hike. Best view is the mighty Water fall on the way. We spend about 45minutes there and reached back to camp site when evening have captured all the day light. Almost a 7 hours of trek today. Noodle break and camp pitching started side by side. Porter team went for the hobby of BONE FIRE. Me sit for the Noodle preparation. Abbas and Imran went for the camp Pitching. Safeer went for a power nap?.might it be very short power nap as he was sitting beside me in a few minutes. ?Mahol? was very chilled and after the dinner a long session of chit chat was in progress. Iit was an end of the days activity and time for DREAMING??
After a short span of time, we found ourselves in a state of DREAM (With open Eyes)and state of prayer to Almighty to stop the severe rain storm which hit our camp site or most probably THE UTROR AREA??..Story opened with the passage of time. A great run, run, run have started in our minds that what will happen next. Thanks to Almighty at about 02:00 the weather went in our favor and we went for a sound sleep of 5/6 hours.
Second day after break fast we start back our trek a bit late 08:45. Reached at Gatal at 9:35. On the way to Izmas, we reached Batal Village area(Village is actually on opposite side of our trek) at about 12:00 and it remains with us the whole next hour. Passing and crossed a number of water falls and Nallas and reached Kalam Banda at 15:00. Noodle break here and also decided to camp here. Team was much active due to the time limitation and in run, run, run state we pitched the camps. We have the plan to reach Izmis lake and back to camp site, so we pitched the camps before time. Left the Kalam Banda at 15:45 reached Izmis at 17:45. Last one hour trek was almost a snow trek. Spent some time at the lake and reached back to kalam banda at about 19:45. We almost trekked 11 hours today...Very Exhausted the team. Safeer did the most of the preparation for dinner and it was the second day closure.
Third day was a pleasant one. Late wake up?no tension. It took only three hours to reached back Gatal. And a great surprise and feeling of happiness is that when you were on a trek and see a vehicle whose driver is going to open the door of his ride for you and say welcome to you. Vehicle was waiting for us which was arranged by Mr Hanif(have his beautiful caf? set up in Dhamaka lake) on our request.
Izmis Lake
The Team
Muhammad Safeer @msafeer
Imran Arshad @imarshad
Abbas Zaheer @abas786
Rashid @emmaar
Ghani and Sajjad were our guides
The Team