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

[imarshad]

Deforestation is at it's peak as is in all other parts of Pakistan/Kashmir......

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One can only feel sympathetic with the horses as almost on every step on the descend the log was hitting the head of the horse....

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Finally after almost 2 hours of trekking we reached "Adhore" or "Dhore" area.... It is a very very beautiful area with green grass with large trees and fast flowing water stream and above all a backdrop of Shaddal Gali side ridge of MKM.....

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Usman at Adhore......

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Our trip manager @Adhore stream......

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After Adhore it is continuous ascend all the way to the MKM top.... Our first proper stop was Bhaki which was almost at one hour ascend from Adhore.... It is a wonderful and green campsite and has water. Our initial plan was to camp at Bhiki but since we reached there at 1PM we decided to just have a small break of Noodles and trek till Khori at least if not till Gali....

Bhikhi Camping Site:

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Tauqeer @Bhikhi.....

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The donkeys having a well deserved break....It was a really tough ascend for the donkeys.....

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Noodles being prepared for us.....

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Looking back from where we came.....

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After Bhikhi we reached Jabbar in roughly 30-45 minutes and clouds started to gather on top of us. So I packed my camera and so I didn't take a single pic of this area..... After Jabbar we decided to reach at least to Khori. When we just reached Khori the snow line started.....

Near Khori:

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Finally we reached Khori and it started to rain and also a hailstorm hit us.... After about 30-40 min. the sun came out....

Our Camping Site:

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The porters took the luggage off the donkeys and walked them through a easier trek towards our camp.

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Isn't he cute!!!!

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Usman's Portrait...

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All are relatively happy after reaching our first day's milestone.....

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Evening pic of the adjacent mountains of MKM.....

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and this concludes my first day's pictures of the trek.... Over to you Rashid for your remaining pictures....

[Huazifa]

Let me join the party a little bit late this time as I was very very busy in the office and had no time in my home as well so had no time to process the raw files... Anyways I don't know why but the pictures for this trip were not as sharp as I had hoped so I will share very less pics.....
Since Rashid has reached till Gali so I will very quickly go through some of my pictures from Manda Gucha to Khori today....

Bohat deer kr di Meharbaan Aaty Aaty ...

[Shahbazzain]

Imran Bhai bohat khoob.... Rashid Bhai Aala work... pace is also good- carry on

[waseem14pk]

Excellent Pictures Imran Bhai