Duration- 4 days
Grade - IV
Best time- Oct- April
The Alaknanda rises at the confluence and feet of the Sathopanth and Bhagirathi Kharak glacier in Uttrakhand. It meets the Bhagirathi river at Devprayag after flowing for approximately 190 km through the Alaknanda valley. Its main tribute's are the Mandakni, Nadakni, and Pinder rivers. The Alaknanda system drains parts of Chamoli, Pauri and Tehiri district.
In mythology, the Goddess Ganga descended to earth at Gangotri, the original source of the Bhagirathi before the Gangotri glacier receded to its current location at Gaumukh the Alaknanda is believed to have split off from the celestial Ganga when it descended from heaven.
Our rip on Alaknanda is one of the most exciting rafting trip in India, we do a 3 days of approx 60 km of continues class III, IV white water.
Itinerary
Day 01 : we meet at our base ( you get picked up from train station, air port or hotel) at 10:00 AM, and re- pack into a river trip dry bag and leave all your belongings in the base.
we began to drive towards Badrinath along the Ganga and Alaknanda river, a lunch break on the way and reach at Nand prayag at around 6:00PM. O/N Camp.
Day 02 : After breakfast we drive to Chamoli 44mint and a complete safety briefing by trip leader we start the day and running a section of 15km of continues class III, IV rapids, there will be lot of scouting and planning for the big rapids and we reach at Nand prayag and scout the monster rapid called Hillary Fall, after a scout the team takes the decision if it's safe to run mostly during high water flows we portage the Hillary fall.
We reach at camp for the lunch and rest of the afternoon is free for hiking or fishing. Overnight at camp.
Day 03 : After breakfast we pack up load the gear boats for the rest of journey and today we have a long day on the river and number of class III & IV to go. We find ourselves a nice beach for the lunch break and continue to our next campsite at Shivnandi. After set up the camp rest of afternoon explore around Shivnandi. Overnight at camp.
Day 04 : After breakfast we pack up and carry all the camping gear to the road and pack it in truck, today we don't take any gear on the boat because of a long portage at Kakar fall rapid. Until Kaker fall we have few good rapids to go and reach at the portage rapid, during the low water flows we could run, after we get through the Kaker Fall we still have another hour to float we reach at a class III rapid at Rudraprayag confluence and then soon we are at the take out. we have lunch and drive back to Rishikesh, it's 4 hours drive back to our base you collect your bags and we drop you to the hotel.
Here we will focus on more difficult waters as well as some rivers I have discovered and paddled myself.