At 6:15 a.m. on a Tuesday in late March, a retired schoolteacher from Dehradun stood at the Benog Hill trig point — elevation 2,240 metres — and watched the first light catch the snow line on Bandarpunch. She had taken a shared taxi from Library Bazaar for ₹60, walked the forest trail for under two … Read more
On a clear March morning, a retired schoolteacher from Dehradun named Prakash Rawat stood at the stone boundary wall of the old Cloud’s End Hotel and pointed northeast. Behind him, the Mall Road crowds and their honking taxis had vanished entirely. Ahead, a narrow dirt path disappeared into a stand of oak and rhododendron, its … Read more
As of the last week of March 2026, Dhanaulti — a quiet hill station sitting at approximately 2,286 metres above sea level on the Mussoorie–Chamba road — is carrying a rare overlap: patchy snow on the Surkanda ridge and a full flush of apple blossom in the orchards below. Local hoteliers and taxi operators in … Read more