Chader Trek
Chader is one of the difficult trek in indian region , difficulty is only its weather conditions and the cold cause its -20 to -32 temperature condition. This is a flat walk on river zanskar around 80 to 100 km depend on ur route and destination, in this trek you are far away from your connection , greenery, network thr only hope is your trail and friend , people are pretty much friendly in leh.
Time best suite: Jan Start to Feb end mid jan to mid feb is best due to frozen lavel of zanskar, as in yr 2018 there is no snowfall in let and we plan to flag out on 26 jan , so we booked tickets 24 to 29. zanskar much frozen that time only some places it is broken so that places we face difficulty, like near by last frozen waterfall we cross big mountain which take 1 and half extra hour to complete one journey. and that time also tickets too chip, one ticket 6500(round trip delhi to leh), but there s 80% of hotels are closed due to weather so please book you hotel before you go if you are individual without any trail as we are 3 friend (Atul , Ankit)
Preprations for trek:
Toolkit:
1 tent
1 simple and 1 heavy jacket waterproof is better(if you are delhi bases just go to kabuter market near chain cauk purchase in cheapest rate),
trekking bag 60 lt.
waterproof gloves,
monkey cap,
perfect ultraviolet sunglasses(cause snow reflection damage you eye ),
mouth mask ,
1 trekking boot,
1 gumboot (cause somewhere frozen chaser is broken and gambit is only survival for you it cost 400/- you can get it from let local market),
sleeping bag(cost 2000-2500 also available in let market if it is waterproof then its best),
cramponss (optional),
trekking pole(mandatory due to sleepy surface it is your saviour),
2 hot water bottle(save yourself dehydrate , this is cold trek and you rarely feel thirsty but never skip water vert 1 or 2 km just drink little bit water),
medikit,
2 full tee ,
2 pair of thermals(if you need change),
lip card , sunscreen ,cold cream,
2 pair of undergarment,
3 pair of socks(in gam-boot no waintelation socks wet frequently and there is no way to dry it if you live it for some hr in wind its frozen),
PhysicalFitness:
As i mention above it is open only jan start to feb end (depend on snowfall and frozen zanskar) so you start your fitness around oct mid you need at least 2 month , around least 10 km running 30 pushup, 500 rope route daily bases if u need to complete trek within 3 days, we have completed it within 2 and half day by following routine
Cautions(what to do and don’t): 1 create a check list and check before go. 2.take rest after flight for accomodatisation on let environment (mandatory by j&k gov. without rest no permission for chader) 3. sleepy surface use penguin walk, 4.take hot water bottle be hydrate, 5.take a post-paid BSNL sim cause only post paid working in let area. 5.Atm not working and no network means no transaction. 6.book hotel before go(due to cold wether mostly hotels are closed), 7. wear clothes in layer due to -ive temperature (hypothermia) 8.save your energy take every bars for instance energy, 10. no smoking and no alcohol(its rein your trip ) 11. all doc ready before go like medical and permission paper (just go permission office and signed by officer and start your journey for chilling), 12. pack only what amount of weight which you carry throughout the 80 km trek(we have 16 ,15 ,10 kg bag rest we have porter cook cum guide which carry little bit food , stove, oil, water)
Where to start & How to start:
We all meet at Atul home at 23 Jan night and early morning 5.30 we reached IGI Airport got flight and at 8.10 we reached Leh airport , at that time we don’t know anyone in let its first time temperature at airport -7 people ready and covered then within jackets its feeling tooo cold for us. outside airport we meet a guy ujjer(now he is a good friend) who have maruti omini, after some discussion he is ready to helped us out of permission accomatation and other issues and at evening he left us at chilling (starting point of Chaser trek). so after quick discussion we book ujjer for this trek.
Now the first difficulty is permission which open at 9.30 we reed before half hour and certain discussion with the guard and other employee who is available, at that time we know there is no chaser trek without agency, now it is a big trouble for us because we think and need to complete it without agency. after long discussion Permission officer not agree to give us permission cause of two major resin 1. we have no agency, 2 we need to go today ( it is mandatory to rest 1 day then start chaser trek dude to some misshappening with 2 tourist in last 3 days in chaser trek), we have’t any option we discussion every one in that office and show them our id card that we belong to Uttarakhand so trekking is in our blood also show them last gomukh trek photographs after15 min long discussion he melt down and tell us at least we need a guide who know zanskar very well. so now last thinks we need a guide.
we come out office and go to market to find a agency or a guide , finally half and hr finding we got standjing (a guide cum porter and cook) . we book standjing 2700/- per day. now we are pretty much confidant just go to permission office show them our guide who is from zanskar village , now permission(2200 each) is granted time is around 3. we go to market buy stove food , gum-boots
