Try Try Again leading to Success - How We Reached On The Top Of Musa Ka Musalla

Road Trips / Vacations / Hiking / Trekking

waseem14pk (waseem14pk) 2014-05-12 15:03:13 +0500 #301

emmaar;4370887:

The Big Day
We have a long way sleep at night. We slept at about 08:30 of the previous night and our plan was to wake up at 05:00 and start the trek at 06:00. The night stretched its length as every member wake up to perform different activities during night and after a first time activity they never able to sleep for the next part of the night. What were the different activities, Apart from Nature?s call, some one feel suffocation due to low level of oxygen, some one want to calculate the hour of his sleep and quite disturbed when he noted down the time and it was 12:00 right mid night L. Finally from 5:00 of the morning team started to come out of the camps. Breakfast and preparation was going side by side and finally at 06:15 we left the camp site for the summit. We reached at Gali(3133m) at 7:10. From khori to Gali was a complete steep hike and level of snow was also tremendous. Very care full walking with a great patience was a need of the hour on such a trek. The only easy patch with in a trek was a one hour gentle walk just after Gali. As snow was a bit hard so we haven?t found it much difficult to break the trail. Except on some of the points normally we faced the snow of about 1feet. At the top snow was about 10/12 feet but we immersed up to the gaiters level on some places thanks to semi hard snow . After Gali some of the time checks with the gaining of altitudes were
3335m: 08:15
3526m: 0915
3687m: 10:00
3825m: 10:40
4076m: 12:00 The temperature was dropped down when we reached at the top. Freezing Air was blowing and even seems it a hell difficult to take the pictures of the team. We stayed 10/15 minutes on the top and then rushed down for a shelter to avoid freezing air and then to avoid rain and hail storm.
Return back to Gali at 15:30. Due to rain and hail storm we tried to reach back to Gali for a shelter and stayed here about an hour. Rain have disturbed our planning a made our big group into small sub groups.
Resultant aggregate of the trek: Luck was with us o this trek. We the all seven members of the team scaled the MKM for which we are coming to the region. On previous day the trek was just like a summer trek so, all the team members did the trek in a unity. Today?s trek was a great challenge with snow so, we decided to make sub groups as per the Natural Pace and trek conditions of the trek. A big mistake do the most beginners in their starting treks is to reach at the top before very team members. IT IS NOT A RACE TO REACH FIRST ON THE TOP BUT IT IS AN ATTITUDE TO REACH ON THE TOP WITH ITS OWN PACE. After the years and many treks we all team members know their natural pace and we can?t cross our limits on the trek and that?s why we enjoy more pleasure from the treks too. Only some formal rules must be follow to every team members on the trek to keep in touch with other members etc etc.We formed three sub groups as Runners, Trekkers and SSG group and choice was the members to join which one they like.
Me always feel relaxed to be a part of the middle one sub group of the trek

Wonderful Shot Rashid Bhai
And who knows camps are pitched on roof top of the shelter

emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 15:04:33 +0500 #302

So by leaving the relaxed members with their relaxation back me rushed towards Gali top to join the members which already reached there
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 15:06:10 +0500 #303

A few moments before we appeared from this side of the site
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 15:06:53 +0500 #304

Shahbaz and Usman already reached at the Gali top
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 15:11:37 +0500 #305

These flat stones always tempting to every trekker as it signify some sort of achievement and call the trekkers to come and win
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 15:12:50 +0500 #306

...and feeling of flying into the air(A)
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 15:56:39 +0500 #307

A couple of shots at Gali Top
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 15:57:23 +0500 #308

MKM along with the risen sun
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 15:57:58 +0500 #309

MKM towards Thandi Gali ridge
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 15:58:37 +0500 #310

Thandi Gali towards Shaddal Gali and then KUnd Bangla Ridge
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 15:59:44 +0500 #311

Me and Shahbaz
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 16:01:03 +0500 #312

Thanks to Tauqeer and Shahbaz for a fair shooting of the cameraman
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 16:01:31 +0500 #313

Tauqeer and Me
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 16:02:12 +0500 #314

Another one as per "Farmaish" of Shahbaz
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 16:03:06 +0500 #315

A directed pose from the below
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 16:03:38 +0500 #316

emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 16:04:08 +0500 #317

Yeh Cheez
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 16:06:31 +0500 #318

A couple of minutes stay at the top provided the team members a good energy booster. All the team have reached till Gali at about 7:10 to 7:15.
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 16:07:06 +0500 #319

Amer Waseem with his belongings
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-05-12 16:07:42 +0500 #320

A partial group photo before leaving the gali
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