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Dhumdhar Kandi : The incomplete dream

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" Intense to very intense rainfall in isolated parts of Uttarakhand " is the IMD warning we started our journey with .  6 of us were hopeful that even though we were travelling to Uttarakhand, we will be nearer to kinnaur / Spiti region which is comparatively dryer and we might just escape nature's fury. We were about to find that out.  If you are an outdoor person , you would know that September is the best month for Himalayan treks. We believed in this too all these years. Dhumdhar Kandi was on our wish list for the past few years but wasn't executed due to the pandemic. We started planning for it in June. In the last few years the weather in Sept has been inconsistent. We had experienced this during Buran Ghati and Sin La treks a few years back but considering the length of the trek and availability of team members , early sept was the only window we had. Post Ganpati Festival , we reached Mussoorie , spent a few days acclimatizing ourselves with small hikes like