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Originally Posted by keyurshah SOrry for being OT, but there is a question bothering me.
When on the road to eagle camp, did it never struck you once what happens in case you find another car in front of you in opp direction. It would have been a daunting task to maneuver the beast in those narrow roads to the point where you both could pass each other.
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It sure does in any road, thats by instinct you think like what happens if another vehicle is out there on the opposite side. And similarly by instinct you think at the back of your mind while going up a narrow trail, like where was the last point where the road was just a little wider. I say by instinct since a bare enough wide place in a narrow trail is easily registered in your mind while going up. Now the anxiety will be if the wide places are few and far between. Normally in a hill road, the turnings give places. Well did not encounter any vehicle coming down the opposite side, as later we found out in the whole of 220 sq km of forest, we were the only travellers. But the back gear ride was used here when we saw we would get stuck at Elephant pass snow and back gear backtrack was used to the nearest wide place.
And the situation that you describe was very much encountered in the drive to Bathad in Himachal, the road is similarly narrow and a uphill narrow stretch is there where it goes by the side of the hill for some distance, i.e, no turnings.
Now as we were going up and almost mid way, a Himachal State Bus was coming down from the opposite side. The hill road was barely wide enough for the Safari and so we had to back track for almost a km. Thats a huge distance back for a hill road back gear ride and it required all the attention from me.
The most important thing that one has to have efficiency is the ability to take one's vehicle in a more or less straight line or even a turn [i.e. retrace back on the same tyre track left when going forward] by looking at the rear view mirror/side mirrors. You got to master this if have to do uphill narrow tracks with confidence.
This is from my experience, would of course like to know how others distance travellers handle such situations.
Last edited by adc : 23rd April 2010 at 14:33.
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