Hampta Pass: weight and weather

Wet shoes, high wind, long kilometres and the small decisions that carried the trek.

At Balu Ka Ghera, the weather was so pleasant that I sat down and slept for twenty minutes. Later the trek became harder: wet shoes, heavy luggage and roughly ten kilometres ahead made paying to offload my bag feel like the wisest decision of the day.

The sequence passes through waiting beneath the Indrasan range, the fear and wind near the summit, wet clothes on the descent and a lake where rain began before I slept through the evening to recover.