Aug 3, 2018
The next day morning, the shepherds left to the other side of the mountain and we went down to cross the stream. The stream was easy to cross in the morning, without forming any chain. We had a long walk ahead of us in the direction of the Table-Sarchu trail.
We started climbing up and had a stunning view of the Lingthi valley. We could see the old trail on the opposite side and some glaciers, Lingthi Chu and army camps from far. We walked nonstop for another 15 km and reached the Yunam river opposite to Sarchu. Hurray, there was an old bridge, that was intact for crossing to Sarchu that was built in 2005.
We took some pictures and left to Sarchu. Sarchu was dry and hot. We ate some rice, Maggi noodles at dhaba. We met two ladies heading to keylong and the driver was from Padum. He saw us and appreaciated us walking with the minimalistic packs crossing the Phirtse La.
We walked towards the security verification near Sarchu, showed our Id’s, and started for a vehicle to hitchhike as walking in the road started to get boring a bit. Somehow after 10km, we found a Nepali who helped us get a hitchhike to Darcha. It was an on-duty army truck. We Saw old places where we did cycling trips and shared past memories around the Leh-Manali highway. I was particularly discussing the Pangi-Zanskar Ultra run of 2016 where Peter and myself had split and went in 2 different directions. We got down at darcha, ate cheese paratha at Dhaba.
Another security guy told to leave in the morning. Soon we got another hitchhike to Keylong. In Jispa, there was a 3-day festival happening at that time. We went to Keylong and camped near a construction site. The next day morning we woke up early and left to Pangi valley. Pangi is one of my favorite valleys in Himalaya as I did my first solo-cycling trip via Sach Pass into Pangi during 2016 ending up in Kaza.
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