Ranikhet, India
I am back from backpacking in the Himalayas for a month! I was in Uttarakhand which is a state in northern India. The backpacking itself was great, a 5-6 hour day with a 50 lbs pack was so daunting and hard in the beginning of the trip but it certainly got easier; I could feel myself get stronger and more comfortable as each day passed and by the middle of the trip, a day like that became normal.
On the second day, we went from about 8,000 ft to 11,000 ft in e...