My First Encounter with Snow

Visited in January 2013

After a night stay at Patnitop, we (me and my colleagues) started from Patnitop by a cab (booked from Katra for the remaining trip) and reached our destination in around 20-30 minutes as Nathatop (our destination) is 14 km away from Patnitop. The view on the way was amazing as the one below:

Watching snow was definitely the highlight of my trip and after seeing the place the enthusiasm just got doubled. And without wasting anytime I wore my boots and got into the snow. Since the area received snowfall in morning, it was fresh and soft just like roll of cotton. We did all we could in that short span of time (as we had to catch train the same day), we played, threw snow balls, clicked photographs, glided (by ourselves), rested on snow and walked around the area. The place looks beautiful with snow everywhere and mountains surrounded.

Nathatop definitely deserves visit in winters and I am very thankful to our cab driver who suggested us this place as this was not in our itinerary.

On our way back we again visited a beautiful park in Patnitop. After seeing this park I could say one thing snow can make anything beautiful especially for the people who saw it (snow) rarely. Clean white soft snow is sufficient for enjoyment. Again we played, clicked photographs and bid adieu to this beautiful place with warm memories.

Some points

• Blazer, boots, gloves can be hired by local vendor present at Nathatop. Also one can satisfy their taste buds by having hot hot Maggie in the cool cool weather (from the local vendors at Nathatop).
• Skiing is also available at Nathatop
• Boots are recommended at these place as with continuous snow fall there is a pile of snow collected and when we walk through this snow our shoes or any other footwear gets wet, the same happened with me at Patnitop park.
• While we were walking towards park we went through some old snow which was slippery.