Rejoindre Muktinath depuis Kagbeni par le lit de la Jhong Khola

Voila dejà L'itineraire sur Google Earth.
Le détail plus tard.
Ci-dessous, l'itinéraire du tour des villages: Ici sur Google Earth

de Ranipauwa: En sortant du lodge Les Chemins du Rêve prendre à droite, passer le lodge Bob Marley et prendre le sentier à droite,et descendre sur Purang (ancien balisage rouge) puis a travers champs en direction de Jharkot.

Avant Jharkot, dans la dépression, avant ou après passage d'une porte et mur descendre à droite un chemin à travers champs vers les escaliers qui mènent à la Jhong Khola, au pont en acier et au chemin remontant vers Jhong.

De là, rejoindre le canal qui passe à proximité et suivre ce bisse vers le bas (Ouest) jusqu' après Jharkot dans les champs. Obliquer à droite et rejoindre le chemin qui descend de Khinga vers le petit pont en rondin sur la Jhong Khola, le traverser et remonter un sentier dans une ravine vers Putak.

Vous perdre quelque temps dans le village puis reprendre au dessus, vers l'Est, la piste de jeep qui remonte vers Jhong. Visiter la Gompa et les ruines du fort. Il est possible de se restaurer dans le petit lodge au pied de la Gompa.

Reprendre la piste vers Chhyongur et de la le sentier qui retourne à Muktinath ET visitez le nouveau Monastère sur la route OU prendre vers les champs de Jhong un sentier qui descend vers la rivière (le plus court), passer un pont de rondins et rejoindre Purang puis Muktinath.

October trek to Tawa Pass for YakHawaKang Itinerary

On 24/10, I move up alone by new route from Yak Karkha at 4600m:
After reaching Yak Karkha (4600m) from Ranipauwa with all gears for 2 days , I take the East direction in the hills to bypass the Tawa pass and directly reach the first pass at 5600m.
I started at 07h40 and stopped at 12h40 at 5000m. There was no water on the way (after Yak Karkha), and no water until the pass. There can be water available after winter season or during moonsoon but not at this moment. I stopped where there was some snow left to have water.
Above 5200m The path goes through stony hills and making a camp there seems more difficult without enough snow.
The only practical solution is either to bring water tanks from Yak Karkha or directly move to the pass at 5600m.

The 2 itineraries from "Les Chemins du Rêve" in Raniauwa.

On 25/10, after a quiet night I move up to second pass at 5800m
I started at 05h00, clear weather. The way is effectively moving more smoothly in those hills. Main direction is East. It does not reach the Shorten at 5600m but a point between the ridge summit at 5700m and the shorten. There was fresh snow starting from 5600m and above. So I stopped progression at 10h30 at the 5800m pass (snow above the knees). I joined back the camp around 12h15 and due to wind and coming clouds I decided to move back to Ranipauwa reached at 17h00.
The route from the camp at 5000m until pass at 5700m is not so short. I was also searching for the itinerary in the dark the first hour.
By good weather, Yakawa Kang seems pretty difficult viewed from the pass. The normal way from a base camp down the pass at 5600m seems to be a better idea.
A camp at Yak Karkha (4600m) is mandatory, except for acclimatation and rest.
A move up to the Tawa pass at 5000m to make an acclimatisation camp after the rocky towers or nearby the lake on the left side seems also wise. It will allow to evaluate the possibility to move to the first pass at 5700m if there is snow on the sloppy way.
A come down to yak karkha (camp) and a move up to pass at 5700m to put a camp nearby the lake at 5550m. The 6110m and 6050m would be acclimatisation summits.
Then move up after the second pass (5800m) down at 5600m for Yakawa Kang and Purkung.
I will add photos as soon as I find them. I let a copy in Mukinath and I do not have my computer with me now.
I will also add the GPS itinerary merged in a GoogleEarth track.

• 2nd Itinerary from YakKarkha: 2nd Itinerary from YakKarkha above Muktinath to YakHawaKang Pass.
• The Google Earth itinerary from Les Chemins Du Rêve in Muktinath:       Muktinath to YakHawaKang Pass at 5850m

See you soon.

Les Chemins Du Reve, Rando a la journee depuis Ranipauwa

J 'allais oublier, il y a un nouveau sentier trace sur la droite du sentier allant de Ranipauwa-Chhyongur vers le Mustang (par la Gyu La pass, 4077m). Il démarre vers 3840m avant la bifurcation (en descente) vers Jhong Il permet de monter vers le haut du Gyula Danda a 5270m. Il est large et confortable montant doucement en lacets. Il s’arrête cependant avant un épaulement a 4650m environ, de la a travers les alpages et cailloux vers le sommet.

Très belles vues sur la vallée de Muktinath-Kagbeni et sur le haut-Mustang.

Compter (depuis le lodge "Les Chemins du Rêve" a Ranipauwa) 3-5h pour la montée et 2-3h pour la descente.

Les Chemins Du Reve, Itineraire Kagbeni - Muktinath par la riviere, rive droite

Début septembre j'ai également termine l’itinéraire qui permet de rejoindre Muktinath depuis Kagbeni par la rive droite de la Jhong Khola.

Il part de Kagbeni en suivant la jeep way qui rejoint la piste vers Muktinath puis suit la rive droite de la rivière sur un petit sentier longeant un "bisse", puis il remonte a mi-plateau vers les ruines de l'ancien Kagbeni, de la redescendre dans le lit du torrent, le longer vers l'amont tantôt a mi-plateau tantôt dans le lit.

Ce n'est pas un sentier facile. Il est escarpe par endroit et nécessite quelques pas acrobatiques pour le passage de 2 ravines. Mais cela reste un itineraire permettant de découvrir tout un aspect cache des paysages de la vallée avec un avant goût de Haut-Mustang.

A partir de Jharkot, il vaut mieux prendre l'itineraire du bisse qui rejoint le pont Purang-Jhong. Voir ICI.

Photos de la partie Kagbeni-Putak sur ICI

Je publie le topo des qu'il est termine. Voir la Carte.

Les Chemins Du Rêve – September 2011 – Next move trial to Yakawa Kang.

The Lodge is slowly finishing … With some unfinished things like its name in French for instance.

17/09 Preparation

2 people: Tham and me

Weather is not fine, 80% of cloud coverage here and no view on any summit

Load is about 25 Kg per person

• 50m 8mm rope, crampons, 1 ice axe, gletcher personal stuff, 4 ice screws and carabiners. 1 tent quechua 2p, altitude shoes, 1 gaz stove, 2 bottles, 1 small cooking set, 1 pieud a neige, 1 dead body,

18/09 move from Rani Pauwa to YakKarka (camp 2)

Long way up carrying everything. This could be the first Alpine style trial on YakHawa Kang South route. But the weather is not very nice. We stay at 4400m bivouacking in the sheperds staying place.

19/09 Move up to 5700 at first pass

At 03h30 it was raining, so we did not move. We have been starting at 06h30 only for a sight only. We arrived at the 5700 pass nearby the shorten around 11h00 while on 26 May starting at 5h30, in snow, I had reached the second pass at 5850-5900 around 09h30.

There is no snow at this moment. I can assume snow from Feb to 20 may and mid October to January. Without snow the 600m up move in stony hill is slow (3 steps up and 1 down). Itinerary is the same, targeting the South ridge focusing on the medium rocks on the right.

No snow on the ridge til the ridge summit above the lake at 5700. no snow on the 100m way down to the pass at 5600 (shorten). The snow starts from here til the 6110m left peak and 6000m right peak.

An alternate itinerary is to move through the hills from the YakKarka (camp 2) to the Shorten pass at 5600. this is a ENE route passing below rocky area marked at 5200m on the map. A possible camping place is at 5000m around on a possible flat area nearby the rivers collector in quadrant

319100N, 493000E / 319000N,494000E Nepal grid.

We were back at the camp at 12h50. We have been packing everything and returned to yakkharka reached at 16h00. Bivouac there.

20/09 Come down from YakKarka (camp 2)

Cloudy weather. Some rain fall at Ranipauwa in afternoon.