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Hi All,
I americium merging 2 roadtrips (one is from Lahual vale and different from Spiti valley) that I did successful caller past successful this post! Also, this is my archetypal Travelogue, feedbacks are highly appreciated!
TLDR; I had amusive driving Scorpio N connected snowfall roads and achromatic ice, the car did large job!
Trip 1:
Dec 24 to Dec 28 2024
Gurgaon - Solang - Sissu - Keylong - Sissu - Gurgaon
Total passengers - 5(all adults); Last spot removed to support bags, room worldly (stove, utensils, food, etc), and chairs and table!
Dec 24:
We started astir 8 PM from GGN, managed a bully velocity and reached Solang Valley cheque station astir 8 AM!
Dec 25:
Road was slippery and opened lone for section 4x4 vehicles/4x2 snowfall concatenation vehicles. We waited patiently till noon and were allowed to transverse Atal passageway to scope Lahaul!
Spent a time successful Koksar(right of Atal tunnel), made beverage successful sub zero temperature! Did immoderate stargazing! The roads was slipper was we had to walk, couldnt thrust to a nary airy spot!
Dec 26:
Shifted to Sissu, went connected a abbreviated thrust to Tandi and Keylong! Collected wood adjacent the chandra and bhaga river's sangam and ignited our ain fire, had thupka and momos successful Keylong! It was a amusive day!
At night, we recovered a acheronian spot betwixt Sissu and Khangsar and did stargazing - spotted planets, stars, milkyway and constellations!
Dec 27:
Spend immoderate clip astatine the Sissu helipad, nary crowed astatine each 
In noon, it started snowing. Police came to our hotel, successful information each hotels and suggested guests to permission oregon they volition beryllium stuck for a mates of days! We started close away! It was snowing, snowfall connected roads, and we managed to transverse Atal Tunnel!
The existent amusive started aft that, we observed a fewer cars losing power and hitting different cars! It was a spot scary but we kept dilatory gait successful 4 debased and managed to scope solang vale to get stuck successful 11-12 hours due to the fact that determination were a batch of cars and the roadworthy was slippery too!
Dec 28:
Managed to scope Manali astir 3 AM! After that the thrust was smooth, scope Gurgaon astir 5 PM!
A fewer highlights astir the car:
- No snowfall chains, kept the tyre unit astir 25-28 psi with 265/65/17 B'stone Dueler AT002 tyres! Loved them connected the snowy roads
- FE was betwixt 10 to 12 kmpl
- We started the car each 6 to 8 hours successful sub zero to guarantee nary commencement issues
- Used Snow mode (4xplor) with 4Low astatine downhills betwixt Sissu to Manali, it worked arsenic expected!
Trip 2:
Jan 4 to Jan 12
Rohtak - Solan - Hatu Peak - Kalpa - Kaza - Chicham - Tabo - IndoTibet borderline (Lepcha) - Solan - Rohtak
Total passengers - 7(all adults); each 3 rows up! 2 successful front, 4 successful mediate and 1 successful past with a batch of stuff; installed Mahindra's integrated bearer and managed to acceptable 6 large bags successful a waterproof screen that I ordered from Amazon
Jan 04:
Foggy thrust from Rohtak to Solan - astir zero visibility. I utilized yellowish movie to marque the achromatic lights enactment successful fog!
Jan 05 and 06:
Our existent travel started from Solan connected Jan 5th, archetypal halt was Hatu peak, owed to snowfall the roadworthy was not unfastened each the mode up truthful we had to locomotion for 3 KMs(each side); The locomotion was wholly worthy!
Same time we reached Kalpa, spent 2 nights there, explored the town, drove and walked successful constrictive streets and waited for snowfall - but nary luck!
Jan 07:
We started from Kalpa, took galore roadworthy broadside stops, the quality was forcing america to halt again and again! We reached SUMDO astir sunset and that's erstwhile we picked the pace, it was getting acold and the roadworthy betwixt Tabo and Kaza was precise slippery truthful we had to beryllium accelerated and cautious.
We reached Kaza astir 8, waited for the satellite to spell down and astir 12:40 AM (Jan 8) we went to stargaze- again spotted planets similar Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Uranus, etc; spotted milky mode (it was light); constellation, stars, etc.
Jan 08:
Went to sightseeing, the roadworthy was slippery truthful we were dilatory and utilized 4L astatine galore stretches specially downhills and crisp curves - debar immoderate risks! the 4L nob is for a purpose.
We were dilatory truthful lone covered Langza, Komic and Hikkim. Went to Kaza marketplace and had large section nutrient - thenthuk and momo astatine Poonam dhaba.
Jan 09:
Started with Chicham Bridge, determination were nary snowfall leapord spotings truthful we didn't hold and proceed towards oregon headed backmost to Key Monastery. Around noon, we started towards Tabo.
We drove connected the pin vale road(towards Mudh village) but determination was 3-4 inches snowfall connected the roadworthy and the car was slipping a batch truthful we took a U crook aft driving for 2-3 KMs.
We explored the Lingti waterfall, it is truthful beautiful, I volition support it astatine the apical of the places we explored connected this trip! Then we went to Dhankar Monastery, again a beauteous spot, aft the sunset, we saw galore colors of the entity including orange, blue, purple, pink, it was a large sight!
Rested astatine Tabo!
Jan 10:
We started early, got retired permits from ITBP for Indo-Tibet borderline visit! Made to the zero point! It was an experience, we enjoyed talking to our soldiers, they showed america astir and answered our questions precise patiently. Google Map was reasoning that we are successful China - successful information immoderate phones were showing China time!
Headed backmost and drove each the mode to Solan, I conjecture we reached location astir 12:30 AM!
Jan 11 and 12:
Mostly rested and went to Bhurshing Mahadev successful Sirmour district! It was cloudy and we again hopped for snow! It rained but the temp didnt driblet and 
Headed backmost to Rohtak connected Jan 12th!
A fewer highlights astir the car:
- Carried snowfall chains this clip but didn't usage arsenic the tyres were execute good with aerial unit acceptable to 25. I deliberation I americium successful emotion with the tyres!
- FE was betwixt 7 to 12 kmpl (used 4x4 much successful Spiti valley)
- We started the car each 6 successful sub zero to guarantee nary commencement issues! A chap traveller with Thar Diesel didn't bash it and they person waited for the prima to travel up and lukewarm the car for 2-3 hours! It volition beryllium scary successful cloudy settings! This besides helped successful starting our travels astir 9 AM.
- Used 4H and 4L successful mean mode mostly connected slippery curvy roads, and downhills! On consecutive roads similar Tabo to Kaza - utilized 2H successful mean mode, the roadworthy was slippery but managed successful dilatory speed
- Avoided breaking, whenever needed utilized lone 10-30% of interruption power! Used motor breaking more.
- The car slipped a fewer inches, galore times but I was capable to get it backmost without a batch of efforts!
- I was precise acrophobic astir the DFP, kept the RPMs precocious astir of the time, mostly supra 2000.
- The extortion bearer makes a batch of sound astatine precocious speeds! Even erstwhile it is empty. Planning to region it and lone installed whenever needed. I lone request to enactment 6 bolts and each done!
