Seven Lakes Trek- Anini- Day 3
This series of posts is taking forever to pen down- thanks to more wandering adventures! But to go back to Anini, this was the day I thought I was done for. I switched my mantra from, 'Do not get injured' to 'Do not Die'- and I very nearly did too! Pine Trees in the Mishmi Hill Alpine Forest The Trail Day 3 of the Seven Lake Trek starts out amongst the beautiful pine forests of Mishmi Hills and post ascending, the Alpine Forest opens up into beautiful fields of Rhododendron bushes & trees. While the trees primarily have bright red flowers, this was the first time I saw pink, peach, yellow, orange and red rhododendron flowers. Anyways, back to the trail- once we reached these open fields (sides of the mountains) the trek would alternate between ascends taking us to14,000 ft and descends bringing us back to 12,000 ft throughout the day. While the initial trail was planned to end in Camp 3, due to the low bioavailability of oxygen to support fire at this camp, we'
