Part 22 - Route notes from Rong to Lagyari and Lagyari to Lasor via Potrang La

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SUMMARY:
Detailed route description from Rong up the side valley via Ringdi Kenza to Lagyari, noting meadows, a Dzong, a gompa, and cultivation. Continues from Lagyari to Lasor over the Putrang/Potrang La (16,470 ft), with steep descents and hills covered in rhododendron, rose, berberis, willow, and birch, and mentions limited supplies. Notes Gent. Waltoni as common along the Tsangpo between Tsetang, Rong, and Lagyari Dzong.

CONTENT:
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From Rong path leads up the side valley to the South. Path quite good up the R bank, then (in winter) up the valley bed. At m 4 1/2 the valley splits at Ringdi Kenza and the more easterly one is taken. At m 6 path crosses to L bank, climbs 300 ft, then drops again as a valley turns eastward. Path then up L bank or in valley bed, good the whole way. Grass meadows in the valley bed are met about m 12 and the valley opens out to Lagyari, a straggling, but considerable place, with a large Dzong and a gompa. Quite a lot of cultivation and trees. Independent Dzong.

Gent. Waltoni common on almost all rocky hillsides down Tsangpo. Noticed between Tsetang and Rong, and between Rong and Lagyari Dzong.

Lagyari - Lasor. 16 miles. Path follows up R bank of the main river, sometimes climbing pretty high on the R bank, where it follows mostly a water channel cut in side of side valley. A good deal of cultivation is passed and some small villages. After dropping to the main valley, up which it goes for 1/2 mile, it climbs steeply to the last village and thence 2 1/2 more miles to the Potrang La, 16,470, at m 11. Descent on E side much steeper and more direct. The hills on the E side are well covered with rhododendron, rose, berberis, willow, birch and other scrub. Before reaching Lasor the descent eases off. Some cultivation and a few stores such as eggs available.

Putrang or Potrang La
R. vellereum 3557
etc.
Sherriff 11072