Long Weekend on the Rocks!

Hi Again! Before the details of a long rocky weekend get faded away from my volatile memory, I think I should get it engraved (lolz!), and there is no other better place that I can think of. So, again, all the losers from Dilith (and some losers not from Dilith also) made up a plan to torture ourselves once again, this time on bikes, for a 4-day, 1100-km excursion. The start point decided was FA’s home, so all gathered there on the night of 9^th april, passed many hours of the night with our usual guitaring, teasing FA, cracking-pathetic-jokes and laughing-out-loud activities. Everyone was so enthusiastic to start as early as 4 am. But once all the monsters slept, could only start at around 7 in the morning.

Running behind the schedule by almost 3 hrs, the bikes roared out of FA’s courtyard. Me, K2(AJ), RD, CB and CK were on the bikes. The first rays of sun, slight shiver, and 3 bikes, that’s all. Started out really fast, we reached Roorkee and did some pet-pooja out there at osho dhaba at around 12pm.

Just out of the dhaba, the pulsar that I was riding got punctured, and we wasted another 2 hrs there. By that time, PT, K and S who were coming in the car also catched up with us. Finally we started out again. I was alone on the bike till dehradun, and just when I reached at the start of the hills, I got really excited, and within some moments got extremely nostalgic with many sweet memories of past.

The calm hills, curvy roads, and riding alone there, is just superb. Finally we reached chakrata at around 6:45 pm. Enjoyed tea and omlette-buns in the chilly winds of chakrata. It’s a small town and snow-laden hills can be seen at a distance from there. After PT and S hunting for the hotel, we settled down, watched some mithun chakravarty movie, we named K2 as “shankar”, it actually suits him ;).

We started off from chakrata at around 1030 am on day 2. All agreed to drop tiger fall and take off straight for rohru instead. The distance was around 100 kms(not sure about the exact number). Now this was the most challenging path of the whole trip. The mountains were really dry, with rocks and rocks, very slightly visible vegetation for kilometers, and then suddenly lots of tress all around!

The road was really unsuitable for biking. With stones of all kinds and sizes accumulated all over, it was really difficult to maintain the balance, I could hardly cross 30 kmph till we reached tyuni at around 2:45 p.m. After having lunch there, all the tired devils took a jump in the river out there, enjoyed our thass session there in the freezing water (the best one was CK’s “I don’t know how to swim!”).

Then we started off from there, after me waving bye bye to some cute town girls and they all replying back (lolz!). The road was really smooth, and after going through that chakrata-tyuni road, it seemed as smooth as butter. We reached rohru very early at around 6 pm, pretty decent! Then again hunted for the hotel, had some glimpses of splitsvilla, then watched the movie laadla with “Gadraai hui” sridevi (according to K and CB)! After having delicious chicken in the dinner, we went out for a walk and returned within an hour as PT was not at all interested for any walk! On the roof of the hotel, under the open sky, we had our next baker session with laughter and laughter. I distinctly remember when everyone was seriously deciding upon the next day’s plan and CK came up with his flurry of questions about distance of random unachievable destinations (Our sweet Q Monk! J ) RD was really tired so he slept early and missed the bakar.

All got up early and got ready for chansal valley early in the morning. With wasting very little time at chedgaon, we hired a 4x4 and went ahead. The ride was really bumpy as there was literally no road as such! The bikers strayed off the route a bit and there we wasted some 30-40 minutes. After some distance the bikes gave up, with CB’s bullet slipping and making an artistic pattern on my jeans :D . Then we really reached the most beautiful spot of journey, with fresh untouched white sheet of snow all around on the mountains. The van also gave up early, and we all went ahead on foot, with snow all around and inside our shoes, making it really difficult to walk as our feet got numb with chilled snow-turned-water. Well this was first time in my life when I saw so much of snow all around me, walked in it, played with the snow-balls!

After taking lots of pictures, with S and K’s gasolina pics also ;), we came down back to chedgaon at around 5 p.m. As everone had to reach delhi by the night of day4, and delhi was around 500 kms from there which was not at all possible to cover in a day on bike, we decided to go up to shimla by riding in the night! That was scary(Nobody drives on bikes in the hills at night)! The cavalcade of 3 bikes and a car started at night at around 8 pm from rohru, with all very close to each other and careful for the next 120 kms. I was again riding alone, carefully, but had a skid once when RD’s bike came really close. On the curved and bumpy roads, with nothing visible , it was really scary. The wrists had started to pain really a lot. By the time we reached kufri, I really gave up with zero energy left. Landed on the back of RD’s bike and reached shimla. PT again had a challenging hunt for hotels and got us a shade by 2:30 am. All landed on beds and slept within moments.

Day4 started really late, all of us were really relaxed. We got off the hotel at around 1130, but me and K2 got our bikes into no entry mall road area of shimla, and got ourselves hefty tickets of 1500 bucks. Anyways, we had a nice lunch, and after that cakes, checked out the beautiful girls of shimla. Me and K played that silly position-&-rating game on the mall road. Finally we got off at 3 pm for the final destination delhi. We had a dinner break at haveli, a restaurant near karnal. It’s a really nice spot to hang out, or for night outs. Finally I rode the bike with CK on my back upto Delhi, and we reached delhi border at around 11p.m., pretty decently on time.

All over it was a great trip, it took us some days afterwards to gather back the energy, but every moment of it had a worth! An adventurous weekend on the Rocks! J