Six birders - some green, some brown, others a primed yellow - made a trek to the Garhwal Himalaya in April 2007. I, who used to consider myself one of the primed yellow category, found myself so clueless at times that I became a birder of many colours.
An account of that trek - as a travel piece, not a birding trip - has been published on Rediff.com (first in India Abroad's travel special).
Here is
the link