If you would like to see the track click Garmin Connect
On leaving Shimla we were soon joined by Ashish a 16 year old local cycist on his mountain bike. Ashish offered to swap bikes with me and that suited me just fine because without all the panniers his bike was considerably lighter. Ashish told us he needed the practice because he is in the Shimla mtb team and there were some big races coming up. It was fun to have his company for the 35km climb up to Theog where he turned back to Shimla and we plodded our way on the Narkanda at nearly 2700m ( ascent of 964 m total) Narkanda is a ski resort in winter but I wouldn't have guessed it when we arrived in it's centre. Not quite like the ski resorts I know in the summer in the Alps except perhaps the prices for a room being inflated. It was nice though with a big veranda and lots of space. The man at the petrol station didn't bat an eyelid when we presented him with our 0.5 litre fuel bottle. Yippee we can now make coffee in the morning. Who knows it might improve my cycling performance. It can't get any worse that's for sure.
 |
| The road leaving Shimla was busy |
 |
| The local supermarket |
 |
| Little did we realise how palatial our room for the night was Things were soon going to change. |
No comments:
Post a Comment