Rati Gali - The Story of Adventure 2015
The Motivation
After long planning from last 2 years, we decided to execute a plan to visit Ratti Galli lake. our member Ali R had already made a failed attempt in June 2013, so he was very ambitious to complete this trek this time. In 2014, We visited Neelum valley, Azad Kashmir with an official trip. And found a good team to plan some good hiking trips. Actually Junaid Ali who is department Manager in our office was very excited and ambitious to plan some great hikes. He continuously pushed me to plan some trip.
The Frustration
In May 2015, We visited Kalam and Kandol lake with our annual official trip. It was not as successful as we planned. Only 3 of us were able to reach kandol lake because we lost the trek and we attempted without trek which became very difficult to achieve the target. Although I managed to reach the kandol lake but I was a bit disappointed because most of the group members were unable to reach the lake. After this tiresome attempt we came back to office and all of a sudden we planned to attempt Ratti galli just after 2 weeks.
Team Selection
We decided to keep team as small as possible. At the same time we were looking for a perfect hiking team. We chose 3 more members including Shabir Ahmad, Muhammad Ayaz and Shafqat Hussain. But just 1 week before leaving we came to know that Ayaz and Shabir will not be able to join us due to some personal reasons.
For the first time, in my small hiking career I found this situation, we decided to choose some alternative urgently so Moeen (One of our colleague) was in. We planned to go with 4 persons now. We have arranged everything for camping and hiking. On the last day we came to office with full gears and according to plan we need to leave just after our shift time at 3 : 00 am early in the morning.
When we came in the office we found that Moeen was on leave due to family emergency. It was a disaster for our team. I was very disappointed. We needed to add at-least 1 more member to our team. We have just talked to Khalid on urgent basis that you are going to kashmir this weekend and he was just looking our faces. He had no preparation at all. But he decided to go with us. So the final team was.
? Ali Raza (Trip Leader)
? Junaid Ali
? Shafqat Hussain
? Khalid Khan
The Plan
Start Date: 06 June, 2015
End Date: 08 June,2015
Start location: Islamabad
Destination: Ratti Galli Lake
No of Days: 3
Total Team Members: 4
Cost Per head: 5000/-
Vehicle: Mitsubishi Mini Pejero
Vehicle Owned By: Shafqat H.(Team Member)
Total Budget: 20000/-
Note: Sorry for the late posting as I got very busy in last few months. So please accept my apology for posting this post that late.
Please stay tune for the pictures and details about the trip