Part 157 - Ascent of Bod La (Pö La) and camp at Hamo

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SUMMARY:
Diary notes the ascent of Bod La (properly Pö La), a rocky pass with an old Tibetan block house, followed by a descent past a lake to the Hamo Chu and the Hamo camping ground. Weather clears after snow over the pass; plant collections are listed. The next day is a halt at Hamo.

CONTENT:
Ludlow Aug 30-28 - Bod La is a misnomer. It should be the Pö La // Tibetan Pass 77

30th Aug. plateau
Bod La steeper but easy to a plain from m 3 - m 4. The
Cyananthus lobatus 494 last ascent up to the Bod La (16300) at m 4 1/2 is very
Gentiana paludosa 493 steep over rocky hillside. On the top is an old
Arenaria musciformis 495
" ciliolata 497 Tibetan block house, built across the narrow pass.
Phlomis sikkimensis 496
Delphinium grandiflorum 499 The pass is very rocky & for the first mile down the
path is over large rocks and difficult. Then a grassy
plain is reached & beyond this a lake 3/4 mile long.
Tibetan warbler Path keeps to E. side, & descent at north end is easy
off grassy hillside. Rhododendrons are met at m
7, where the path crosses the stream from the lake
to the L. bank. It cuts over the shoulder of a hill &
drops steeply down to the Hamo Chu which runs East to West.
At the foot of the steep descent is HAMO at m 8.
Hamo is a small grassy plain at the very head of the
conifer forest. Water & fuel are ample & the camping
ground is good. // A comparatively easy day,
B 26. especially as it hardly rained at all. There was
View toward some snow over the pass, but soon after we
the Bod (Pö) crossed it stopped & the sun came out, - the
La from the first real sun we have seen since leaving the
N. end of the Me La. It must have cleared a bit in Bhutan,
lake, north of but is undoubtedly drier here than on the South
the pass of the Range. A lovely camping ground.
Hamo.
31st August. Halt at Hamo. Rained last night, nearly all