Friends, gonna share the recent visit of Snowy Naran. Actually our plan was to do TREK TO SAIF UL MALOOK and night camping at there but due to a severe and continuous snow fall, we even couldn?t try to attempt it??.but?? it was not all in vain and our tour which might have the name trek To Saif ul Malook become ?TREK TO KAGHAN?. A number of problems encountered to us one after the other but we did?and what did?.WILL INSHAALLAH REACH TO NARAN.
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[*]We have a 13members group and we were travelling into a High Roof van to reach Naran. At Mansehra we came to know that we can?t reach to Naran via Highroof. So, from Balakot we shifted into the Jeeps by leaving our van back at Balakot.
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[*]At Mahandari, snow fall going to start which lasted till last moment and we came to know that might our jeeps not cross the road near Naran??.and we continued our journey.
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[*]At kaghan we came to know about the blockage of road due to sliding near Naran?..journey was carrying on with same pace.
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[*]In our way to Naran we came across some jeeps which were returning from half way to Naran due to road blockage?..we must go there
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[*]After Kaghan, our jeeps got stuck in the heavy snow, it happened at least three time and every time it takes some time to overcome this issue ??..but at the end we were on move
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[*]About 2--3km before Naran due to a recent avalanche jeeps have to stop down and we have to trek this distance in the night. We have all the gears to fight with this situation but at the road within a heavy snow falling ?..who have the required time to open his rucksack??, so continue trekking on snow covered trek, on glacier, into the deserted and darken town of Naran. Finally reached into the only opened hotel Shalimar (already arranged otherwise no hotel at all) in Naran. Our jeeps went back to Kaghan till further orders
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As we have reached Naran while fighting all these challenges, so, in late night it was decided that now we have to behave upon LOGICS and we will try to attempt lake if weather permitted us to do so. We will finally decide in the morning otherwise will try to go out of the SNOWY DESERTED TOWN OF NARAN. Snow falling continues all the time till morning and we reluctantly opt for trek back towards Kaghan. It was a challenging, tough one but best one trek in which we have to trek back about 15KM. We have to climb at least three to four fresh avalanches/glaciers, under a sky who pouring a full time snow upon us, into a one foot wide self creating trek for our passage and a heavy load of rucksack on our backs?????.We enjoyed it a lot and hope you brothers will also enjoy it with us.
Regards
Rashid
