The morning I almost didn't ride
Grey sky, wet Aravalli lanes, and forty minutes on the Damdama bank that filled nine bags. The half-day loop I almost slept through — told from the middle of the group.
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The ride journal
Every trip we run gets written up here — the road as it actually was that week, who rode, and what the clean-up brought back. No brochure gloss; just what happened.
First switchbacks, taken slowly
Told from the sweep position — four riders taking their first hill road up the Kotdwar switchbacks at a learner's pace, a night in a town that shuts at nine, and a school drop in the Pauri belt.
Read the write-up →A meadow at 2,900 m, and the walk above it
Six riders, four days, a weather window that held. The pilgrim road before the crowds, a 4 a.m. walk to Tungnath, the Ukhimath fuel gap, and other people's plastic carried back down.
Read the write-up →The meadow we cleaned before we pitched
Eight riders, a first camp above the road, and a Nag Tibba meadow that took an afternoon to clear before anyone could pitch a tent. Told from the walk up.
Read the write-up →A wetland morning, right at the end of the season
Ten riders, two Haryana wetlands at the tail of the migratory season, and fifteen kilos of bottles and wrappers off the bunds before the heat came up.
Read the write-up →Up to the temple before the crowds, bags in hand
Seven riders to Kanatal, a cold dawn climb to the Surkanda Devi temple, and a clean-up of the trail and the Kaddukhal parking — nineteen kilos, before breakfast.
Read the write-up →Nine bags, and a cold wind off the water
Fourteen riders, a February breakfast loop to Damdama, and a focused hour on the shoreline after the winter picnic weekends — nine bags, sorted and dropped.
Read the write-up →As quietly as twelve bikes can go
Twelve riders, a Republic Day loop through the Mangar Bani sacred grove — engines low, no horns through the forest — and a litter pick along the grove boundary.
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