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Snow and winter in Garhwal
Gulmarg powder, Auli slopes and white Spiti
Skiing in Gulmarg and Auli, winter Spiti at minus twenty, frozen Ladakh and snowfall weekends in Shimla and Manali. We plan winter trips with heated rooms, road-status checks and spare days for snow.
Photo: Vaibhav 369 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · CommonsWinter shrinks the Himalaya to the places a road still reaches. Gulmarg gets some of the deepest snow in the range from January to March. Spiti stays open from Shimla through Kinnaur when most passes close.
Garhwal is the western half of Uttarakhand, where the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rise and join to become the Ganga. Come for the Char Dham shrines, Valley of Flowers, Tungnath and Rishikesh. Go May–June or mid-September–October; avoid July road travel. A saver week by UTC bus and GMVN dorms costs about ₹2,000–3,000 a day.
Trips
Snow and winter trips in Garhwal
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Where to go
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Auli & Joshimath
Ski slopes and meadows facing Nanda Devi, above Joshimath
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Chopta & Tungnath
Meadows, rhododendron forest and the highest Shiva temple
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Kedarnath
The highest Jyotirlinga, a 16 km walk above Gaurikund
Experiences
Days that fit the style
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Learn to ski on the Auli slopes
Auli's main slope, with a chairlift and ski lift, is where most Indians learn to ski. Take a day lesson with a certifie…
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Meadow walk to Gorson Bugyal
From the top of the Auli slope, a forest trail of about 3 km leads through oak and conifer to Gorson Bugyal, a wide alp…
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Narsingh temple and Jyotirmath in Joshimath
Visit Joshimath's two sacred centres: the Narsingh temple, which keeps an image of Badrinath through the winter, and Jy…
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Sunrise climb to Tungnath and Chandrashila
A pre-dawn climb on the paved path from Chopta to Tungnath temple, then the steep last 1.5 km to Chandrashila, above 4,…
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Morning walk to Deoria Tal from Sari
A 2.5–3 km climb from Sari village to a forest-ringed lake at 2,438 m, where Chaukhamba reflects in still water early i…
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Birding for monal in Kedarnath sanctuary
Walk the forest edges and meadows around Chopta at dawn with a local birding guide to look for Himalayan monal, Uttarak…
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Walking to Kedarnath from Gaurikund
The classic way to Kedarnath: about 16–17 km on a paved, railed trail from Gaurikund at about 1,980 m to the temple at …
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Evening aarti and the Bhairavnath ridge
Climb to the open-air shrine of Bhairavnath on the ridge above town in the late afternoon, look down on the temple and …
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