Rupin Pass Trek

🏔 Altitude: 9000ft.

⛺ Stay: Homestay

🚶‍ Trek: 5 km trek

🍱 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

📶 Network: No network.

Day 2 is a moderate trek ascent till Jiskun followed by slight descent that would require you to tread on various topographic features. It would be a 5 km trail that ends at Jhaka, your camping site for the night. You will get to see the Selwan Khad as you proceed ahead where you can refill your water bottles.

Given the moderate level of trekking, it would be a great pleasure to enjoy the soothing weather and relish some snacks with tea as you approach Jiskun. This section of the trek takes about 4 hours and will take you to an altitude of about 9,000 ft.

🏔 Altitude: 11,700 ft.

⛺ Stay: Tents.

🚶‍ Trek: 11 km, approx time to reach 8 – 9 hrs.

🍱 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Your third day will be an exciting 11 km trek of about 8 hours. Starting early in the morning, you walk out of your campsite at Jhaka and make your way to Dhanderas Thatch. As today’s trek trail is a bit tricky, you will be given instructions on how to have an enjoyable trek day, with minimum difficulty. Today’s trail is exciting and adventurous in every way. With a tricky terrain that is slippery and prone to landslides, it is important that you are careful while trekking.

As you walk out of Jhaka, you cross mixed cross fields and walk into a dense dark jungle. The change in vegetation is interesting and brings a sense of adventure. As you cross the jungle and hop across the little rivulets and streams that you come across, you will come up to a wooden bridge.

After a bit of hiking from here, start your steep ascent to Saruwas Thatch through the vibrant mountain vegetation of Deodar and Walnut trees. On completing the trekking for the day by gradually descending to Dhandarus Thatch, you reach your destination where you rest in the tents.

🏔 Altitude: 13,300 ft.

⛺ Stay: Tents.

🚶‍ Trek: 5 km trek, approx time to reach 4 hrs.

🍱 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Your fourth day of the trek constitutes 5km of trekking; Today’s trek makes you reach an altitude of 13,300 in about 4hours. Having said that, it is an ascent till the upper waterfall after which, where you end up wondering how a trail like this was cut out from a rock face.

With the trail terrain and the surroundings changing abruptly, your climb to the Upper waterfall is quite interesting as well as entertaining. With an initial zig-zag trail, you hike through the mixed dense forest with the cliff on the other side.

Proper acclimatization and briefing for this day are essential.

🏔 Altitude: 15, 350 ft

⛺ Stay: Tents

🚶‍ Trek: 11 Km trek in 10 hrs

🍱 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

This will be the longest and perhaps the most challenging segment of the Rupin Pass trail. From 13,100 ft, you will gain an elevation of 15,400 ft which would be followed by a steep descent to 13,100 feet. As the water sources are limited, it would be important to refill your bottles at the Rati Pheri campsite.

From the Upper waterfall, it begins with an hour of steep climbing that would lead you to the Rati Pheri Campsite. At this site, you would be able to see only the stretches of snow all over the place. It is through these snowy tracts that you would be trekking to reach the Rupin Pass gully. But crossing the boundless snowfields with a glimpse of Rupin Pass at a great distance may prove to be quite challenging as well as a tantalizing thing to do. Given the absence of well-defined tracks, walking on snow may require you to take due precautions as slips and slides are quite common here. A sense of direction is equally important. From Rupin pass, it would be a gentle walk followed by a climb down to Ronti Gad.

⛺ Stay: Tents

🍱 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

This day can be used for any day where the weather conditions are not supportive be it harsh continuous rains or any other climatic barrier. This buffer day can be used earlier or later in the itinerary. Acclimatization for the Rupin pass trek becomes a necessity thus this day cannot be ignored. Many times, trekkers feel tired thus this rest day can be utilized then.

In order to complete this challenging trek both preparing well and listening to your body is a must. Be vocal about any headaches, nausea, dizziness, pain in the chest, etc, and immediately inform the trek leader. With adequate fitness, staying hydrated and proper acclimatization this trek can be done with no difficulty.

🚶‍ Trek: 12 km trek with a moderate ascent of 4 hours followed by a difficult steep ascent.

🍱 Meal: Breakfast

🚗 Drive from Sangla to Shimla by 3 pm. The expected time of arrival is by 12:00 am, so kindly book your accommodation at Shimla accordingly.

The itinerary comes to an end and this last day is less challenging as there is an 8km descent from Ronti Gad to Sangla. Be cautious as climbing down from an altitude can be hurtful to knees if not taken care of so listen to the instructions given by the trek leader throughout.

Those who have booked your travel with us can board the cab for the 9-10 hours long drive from Sangla to Shimla. You will be reaching Shimla late at night so pre-book your stay or travel accordingly.