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Ride to the roadhead, walk the rest
Routes where the bikes stay in the last village and the destination is a walk — a meadow, a glacier snout, a ridge temple, a lake. Every one includes bikes secured with a homestay, a local guide arranged, and a leave-no-trace approach the group commits to.
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Delhi to Nag Tibba (camping)
Nag Tibba, at 3,022 m, is the highest peak of the lower Garhwal range and one of the easiest true Himalayan summits to reach from Delhi — a ride to the trailhead…
Best All year (Dec–Feb for snow)
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Dayara Bugyal
Dayara Bugyal is one of the biggest and most forgiving high meadows in Uttarakhand — a wide, rolling grassland between about 3,000 and 3,600 m above the…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Nachiketa Tal
Nachiketa Tal is a small, still lake at about 2,430 m in the forest above Uttarkashi, ringed by oak and rhododendron with a tiny temple on the shore.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Sankri & Kedarkantha (camping)
Kedarkantha, at about 3,800 m, is the best-known winter snow trek in the country — a gentle climb through pine and oak to open camps and a broad summit…
Best Dec–Apr for snow; May–Jun green
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Lohajung & Brahmatal (camping)
Brahmatal is a small lake on a high ridge in Garhwal at about 3,700 m, reached on a winter camping trek that gives one of the closest road-trip-accessible views…
Best Dec–Feb for snow; Mar–Jun green
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Valley of Flowers
The Valley of Flowers is a glacial hanging valley in Garhwal, a UNESCO site, that erupts into alpine flower through July and August.
Best Jul–Aug for the bloom
See the route → WeekendDelhi to McLeodganj & Triund
McLeodganj, above Dharamshala in the Kangra valley, is the seat of the Dalai Lama and a Tibetan town wedged under the near-vertical Dhauladhar wall.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Rudranath
Rudranath, at about 3,600 m, is the fourth of the Panch Kedar and the one most riders never reach — a natural-rock Shiva face under an overhang, on a…
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Madmaheshwar
Madmaheshwar (Madhyamaheshwar), at about 3,490 m, is the second of the five Panch Kedar — a stone temple in a high meadow with Chaukhamba standing right behind it.
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Churdhar Peak
Churdhar (Chur Chandni), at about 3,647 m, is the highest peak of the outer Himalaya — a bald rock dome south of the main range, topped by the Shirgul…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Pindari Glacier Road
The Pindari Glacier is the classic Kumaon ‘glacier you can almost walk to’ — a graded trail up the Pindar river valley from the roadhead at…
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Parvati Valley
The Parvati Valley runs east off the Kullu valley at Bhuntar — a deep gorge of deodar, apple orchards and old wood-and-stone hamlets.
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
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