Day 7

Sun 27 Sep 2026 · trip day 10

Route notes

The itinerary PDF was written for the Annapurna Sanctuary route and has no description for the revised days. The notes below are derived from the tracks and the PDF's general plan, not quoted from it.

Route

The revised plan offers two ways through days 7–10; this day differs between them.

Option A — staged ascent, out east to Siding — Forest Camp to Badal Danda

Climbs the ridge in two stages and sleeps at Badal Danda before High Camp, which spreads the altitude gain. After Mardi Himal Base Camp it descends east off the ridge to Siding and leaves by jeep.

A short, steady day up the forested ridge past Rest Camp (2,600 m) and Low Camp (2,970 m), where the oak and rhododendron start to thin.

Middle Camp and then Badal Danda — "cloud ridge" — on open grassy crest at about 3,270 m, with Machhapuchhre and Mardi Himal ahead and the Modi Khola valley falling away to the west.

Splitting the ascent here gains about 830 m today and leaves a modest climb to High Camp tomorrow.

Download GPX Forest Camp → Rest Camp → Low Camp → Middle Camp → Badal Danda

Computed from the track (OSM routing, Copernicus GLO-30 elevations, 20 m hysteresis for gain/loss):

Elevation profile

Maps

Option B — straight to High Camp, walk out south to Kande — Forest Camp to High Camp

Reaches High Camp in a single climb from Forest Camp, visits Mardi Himal Base Camp from there and drops back to Badal Danda the same day, then walks the length of the ridge out to the road at Kande — two more days on foot and no long transfer.

The whole ridge in one push: Rest Camp, Low Camp, Badal Danda and on up to High Camp at about 3,540 m.

About 1,100 m of climbing, and the same again in sleeping altitude — worth taking slowly, and worth knowing that Option A splits this climb over two days.

Download GPX Forest Camp → Rest Camp → Low Camp → Badal Danda → High Camp

Computed from the track (OSM routing, Copernicus GLO-30 elevations, 20 m hysteresis for gain/loss):

Elevation profile

Maps