JAURASI RANGE PARK, one of the most beautiful panoramic place in kumaon Devbhoomi Uttarakhand. It is located exactly on the border of Chamoli and Almora district, it’s a 10km of scenic forest ranging from 5700ft to 6600ft above from the sea level. It’s a mesmerizing walk from Asur Gadi Mandir peak to Birmdev Chyonri village top. It’s a paradise for minds that enjoys walking in pure overdose of nature, silent
yet singing, little scary but beautiful, cloud roars to rain and then dances across many different valleys in 200km from east to west, millions of pine and oak trees and various types of flora fauna participate with their different colours for the admiring eyes, few waterfalls to try ice bucket challenge, you got to believe in summers they are a WOW, unlike other places Jaurasi range is not populated and even in future this place will have very limited space for tourism due to less population and mostly it’s all consist of forest and that makes this place quite unique in its own.
Higher Himalya’s
The reason we call them mountain, Uttarakhand is different than Himachal when it comes to greater Himalaya’s any elevation more then 5000ft give you mesmerising view of Himalya’s across 200km of stretch and from jaurasi and birmdev chyonri top one can view around 20 peaks ranging between 19000ft to 23789ft across Kumaon, estern Garhwal and wester Garhwal from panchachuli which lies close to Nepal border in east to Kedar peak,
Pacnhachulli (22,650 ft) and chaudhara (21,358 ft)
Rajrambha (21,446 ft)
Nanada khat (21,689ft) Nanda kot (22,509ft)
Devtoli (22,270 ft), Panwali Dwar (21,860 ft) Maiktoli (22,320 ft) Mrigthuni (22,490 ft)
Trishul (23,359 ft)
Nanda Ghunti (20,699 ft) Bethartoli is 6,352 (20,840 ft)
Chaukhanba 1 (23,419 ft) II (23,196 ft) III (22,949 ft) IV (22487 ft) Satopanth (23,421 ft) Swachhand (22,051 ft).
Map
This scenic 10 km patch can be further divided into 3 different location’s, please note roads which are marked in the MAP from point A to B (10km) are dusty and any SUV can drive, if one wants to enjoy the drive in lush forest and road C (4km) which requires a 4X4 cause it’s complete off road with some section of steep incline and decline and some rocky patches, but this off road drive is worth the money it’s a paradise and cause when you reach at the top it turn’s into a small bugyal (plain grass land) and after 10 minutes of walk you reach Burmdev chyonri top 6600ft , 360 degree view, or one can take the 1.2 km trek from star marked on road D, which is the USP of this area Himalaya’s rises with every step you take towards the top. One can easily say it’s the most photogenic place of this 10 km stretch.Villages close to Birmdev chyonri, Malsakhet,bhaltawani,khatyari
Villages close to Jaurasi,kunakhal,kafaltana,jala,kailani,saugada,jaitha,fadika
15Nov-20 Feb; Winter
Beginning of November embarks the 3 month journey of the Sun between the equinox’s and it turns the entire location into some transcendental 3d wallpaper that change’s as the sun moves in the sky, from colourful sun rise to a sunset that trips the imagination on prism spectrum of colours, Due to winter snowfall begins to accumulate on high Himalaya’s and you see 20 thounsanders rocky peaks changes and takes different shades, as the winter proceeds intermittent snowfall changes the entire spectrum of viewing those mountains as sunlight comes from different angle, many, passes ,valleys and hanging glaciers appears right before the eye for one to wonder, one can actually sea peaks those were creating camouflage with peaks ahead of them, snow reveals the clear definition of the region,
Winter weather: temperature ranges from 17H to -4L
Unlike too cold places, this location is warmer for winter, with only occasional snowfall and temperature rarely drops below -4 in winter nights, and during days times just one sweater does it, The love for the SUN emerges from ones soul, I call it sunshine therapy. You might want to put sunglasses on cause reflection of Himalaya’s is bit much for eye’s.
Star Gazing; Lord of the Night sky, Orion constellation
Covers half of sky, one can watch it flip as night passes and what can one say about mesmerising Betelgeuse and regal and with an average telescope one can dive into deep and unseen to the naked eye universe.
Rainy Season
Rain is the most beautiful phenomenon, nature becomes alchemist, painter and musician in that moment, you can see different shades of rain and clouds holding million tonnes of water, everything around you becomes musical, many running water stream and waterfalls bring ones child out, thunderstorm fills in with humming bass and roaring high notes, clouds dances across entire 200km of panoramic view , some comes and hits you directly on your face and then before you know , you are inside it and when rain stops in intervals ,magic happens One can see rainbow, sometimes more than one and believe me looking at rainbow from 6000ft is tricky trippy for brain, you see it emerging from the valley 3000 ft below you and running across the sky,
Rainy season in jaurasi range is lot safer cause as you travel further in depth monsoon becomes the concern,
Monsoon: From June to September, brings moderate to heavy rainfall. The temperatures during these months range between 15-25
Star Gazing; the most prominent stars visible in the night sky include Vega (in Lyra), Altair (in Aquila), Deneb (in Cygnus)