This is the trek which one would love to do again and again. I really loved it. This trek is physically demanding and it's worth completing this trek :-). I have already heard about this trek from Nilesh and he told that it is one of his favorite, as soon as the information about this trek was posted, I had confirmed my seat. The plan was to catch the second slow Karjat and to meet at Vangani station. I have learnt a lot from my earlier mistakes and this time also I was on time. I think this trek is a big time favorite of everyone. I got a chance to meet many old trek buddies in this trek. We started as usual with intro round, which I guess needs some more spices. After that we had bada paos and by auto we were dropped till Chincwadi diversion. The road till chincwadi was good which surprised me why auto did not come till the village. The reason may be the ascend while moving towards the village.
As we were passing a private land we came across a nice water stream which changed the mood of the group. Group enjoyed it a lot and we all had a lot of fun. I am really jealous to the owner of this land, his farm house or should I say a big bungalow was also visible seems perfect to me. This is one of the thing which I would like to own someday :D.
After nice swimming in the stream and completely getting wet we all started the real trek. The first phase of the trek involved normal walking, but as we reach the base of range it was clear that we had a steep climb in front of us. But climb proved to be fun. The reasons were frequent drizzling and awesome waterfalls while climbing. I used to think I was the only guy “crazy” for waterfalls, but in this trek I met many :D. We were enjoying every single waterfall coming in our way and getting drenched in almost all of them. The climb was really good, after we crossed the last waterfall, the difficult patch starts. For me it was cool as I never had problem in climbing. (descending is always tough :-( )The peak of this range was fully covered with fog and it was giving a amazing view from the routes in between. After reaching to the ridge of range we discovered that the other side of range was equally beautiful. Moreover it was foggy and wind blowing was simply AWESOME. Then we climbed the last part of climb i.e. from ridge to the caves.
After reaching to the caves we waited for the rest of the group to join us. As soon as we all got together we all had our lunch. One thing about youngeterz group in general is all are of nearly same age and they mix up very easily. While lunch we were snatching, playing pranks, hiding food …just like old college treats ;-).
We didn’t rested for long after lunch which was a very good decision. As it was a big group and considering the inclination, descend was supposed to be difficult and time consuming. I was ahead to enjoy the waterfalls again (I know I was being selfish…but kya kare control nahi hota ;-) ). Myself and group of 4-5 other people was so engaged in enjoying waterfalls that others went ahead of us and we were still in the water :D. But everything ends somewhere I have to agree that I was kind of saturated and wanted to return early. Moreover the stream was waiting for us :-). Group was really good and leaders were better. No one had any problem in descending and everyone reached the base of chanderi range with ample time to spare.
When we reached the stream sun was shining and water of stream was no more cold. I was already satisfied and tired too so I enjoyed in watching other enjoy :D. As I said there were even more crazier guys than me in the group. They were trying all king of stupid diving style in water. I was simply jealous by one of the coordinator of youngsterz, his name is Ananda, aka Andy. God has given him such an athletic body that he can do anything. He showed us one of the best dives I have seen live. One crazy guy namely Kartik, (*aka takloo because of his hairstyle :P) he also jumped in well following Ananda. He was a good swimmer but he was able to come out by pulling himself out with the help of rope. And guess what who saved him….none other than Andy. He jumped back and tied a rope to him. It was funny when others were pulling karthik out. He was shouting with pain, as rope was hurting him. Finally somehow he came out. Everyone was laughing and it was the funniest moment of whole trek. People were not coming out of water, somehow leaders made them come out and our journey towards diversion again started.
As we reached back to Chincwadi diversion we found few autos which saved our walking of few kms. We started getting in and soon reached the same spot where we were standing in the morning. We all had our refreshment in the same hotel. It was good and our leaders have organized it well. We were supposed to share our experience but train was scheduled at 7:05 pm, so we all left in hurry for the train.
This was the first local train travelling which I enjoyed the most. It was very crowded and we group 40 odd people started shouting slogans and making noises. It was hilarious shouting our national movement slogans like – “Angrejo Bharat Chodo”, “Karo ya Maro” etc etc. Instead of crowd disliking our halla-gulaa we kept on enjoying. It was really fun. Overall Chanderi was fun and it is one of the treks which should be done as a ritual every year :-)
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Trek with URJA @ Sudhagad @ 13th July 08
This was my first trek with URJA whose coordinator is Yatin. I guess he is the only “Karta-Dharta” of this team. One thing good about his organizing trek is comfort he offers. We went to the destination via bus from Thane. But of course nothing comes free, I guess charges were really high and we were not even provided evening snacks (because of time scarcity, we were already late so how 20-30 minutes would have made a difference…. I don’t know….). This time I was on time and I know no one will believe me but I was the first person to reach the destination :-). We started our journey at around 7:30 am which was late considering we gathered at 6 am. We boarded the same bus which carries Patni employees during weekdays. Some of the Patni employees were disappointed to see that :P.
Bus journey was good, as weather was cool and it was drizzling since early morning. I tried to keep my eyes open but I was really tired, slept for almost half of the distance. In the short span in which I was awake I noticed that we were going in Mumbai-Goa highway (Karnala route) and we took a right turn after we were 60 kms from Panvel. The destination was Pali and from Pali we were supposed to go to Thakurwadi (I was confused with “Thakurwadi” as this was the name of village in Sarkar Raj, but this was not the same village. This proves that lots of Maharashtra village have same name :-) ). As soon we finished group introduction and started for trek, it started raining heavily. (another warm welcome :D.)
This trek falls under easy grade so it was a leisure walk for me. My eyes were constantly searching for some waterfall. I can see one from the base village itself but it was not in the route to the top. I was ahead of the whole group, so I decided stray a bit and look for the route. I almost found it but it was far away and would have taken another 10 minutes. So I decided to return and join the group. I guess I was not energetic enough that day. We reached the top very easily. The top of sudhagad is a “big” plateau with some water cisterns. These are big in size and were causing formation of waterfalls. One of the fall was in our route and as usual I was below it to take some rest. I thoroughly enjoyed it and soon other group also joined me.
We waited for others to reach on top and then we went to see other spots of this trek. MahaDarwaja, Temple, 1-2 more points. But frankly speaking I was not very impressed by any :-(. The one reason I was enjoying fully was my shoe. The frictional sole of my shoe was completely gone and I was walking on slippery surface. I fall once while walking on slippery rock. I hurt my knee and was seriously disappointed and low that day. We all descended pretty soon, as there was nothing else to do there. I even slept for 45-50 minutes. I was not taking any chances while descending and walked very slowly. The whole group was really slow and we were late by the time all came down.
While returning we went to Pali temple which was one of the best part of this trek . After that we were supposes to have “heavy refreshments” but what we got was like “jeera in my mouth” :D. After Pali our bus journey started again, we reached Thane at around 11 pm. Overall it was trek for begineers and needed good planning which was completely missing.
Bus journey was good, as weather was cool and it was drizzling since early morning. I tried to keep my eyes open but I was really tired, slept for almost half of the distance. In the short span in which I was awake I noticed that we were going in Mumbai-Goa highway (Karnala route) and we took a right turn after we were 60 kms from Panvel. The destination was Pali and from Pali we were supposed to go to Thakurwadi (I was confused with “Thakurwadi” as this was the name of village in Sarkar Raj, but this was not the same village. This proves that lots of Maharashtra village have same name :-) ). As soon we finished group introduction and started for trek, it started raining heavily. (another warm welcome :D.)
This trek falls under easy grade so it was a leisure walk for me. My eyes were constantly searching for some waterfall. I can see one from the base village itself but it was not in the route to the top. I was ahead of the whole group, so I decided stray a bit and look for the route. I almost found it but it was far away and would have taken another 10 minutes. So I decided to return and join the group. I guess I was not energetic enough that day. We reached the top very easily. The top of sudhagad is a “big” plateau with some water cisterns. These are big in size and were causing formation of waterfalls. One of the fall was in our route and as usual I was below it to take some rest. I thoroughly enjoyed it and soon other group also joined me.
We waited for others to reach on top and then we went to see other spots of this trek. MahaDarwaja, Temple, 1-2 more points. But frankly speaking I was not very impressed by any :-(. The one reason I was enjoying fully was my shoe. The frictional sole of my shoe was completely gone and I was walking on slippery surface. I fall once while walking on slippery rock. I hurt my knee and was seriously disappointed and low that day. We all descended pretty soon, as there was nothing else to do there. I even slept for 45-50 minutes. I was not taking any chances while descending and walked very slowly. The whole group was really slow and we were late by the time all came down.
While returning we went to Pali temple which was one of the best part of this trek . After that we were supposes to have “heavy refreshments” but what we got was like “jeera in my mouth” :D. After Pali our bus journey started again, we reached Thane at around 11 pm. Overall it was trek for begineers and needed good planning which was completely missing.
Blogging after a long time…Peb completed
I am really sorry about this but I don’t know why writing my experience got delayed. I will try to summarize them form here onwards....
After unsuccessful trek to Peb, I took rest because of my own reasons. It felt very dull the whole week after that. That means trek are exhaustive but w/o them life is “still as rock”, not solid though :D. This week was I guess 28th-29th June 08. The week after that (5th-6th July 08) no good trek was organized. So I decided to complete the unfinish trek to Peb. I had planned to start early but it got delayed (as usual ;-) ). I started very late, I caught a train at 8:50 am in the morning. After getting down in Neral, I bought some stuff and started the trek at 10:45 am. This was late but as I was alone and half of the trek was known to me so I pace it up. The good part was the rains, they were welcoming me and I kept moving w/o any halt. I reached the point from where we backed off in 1hour 30 minutes.
Those guys were really enthusiastic, they agreed to come (one of the other reason was that they did not want to go down through that rock again :P ). So we started again our journey. As always w/o a guide it was confusing, but I was trying to use my experience and was leading the others. After reaching a diversion, we were really confused to which way we should go. I asked one guy to go in one and I went to other. The route towards my side was flat and looked as if it was crossing the whole mountain range. The other was going to the top of that range. I wanted to follow the flat one but I was not trying to dominate either. I listened to the other fellow and we started climbing the range. To our surprise, this route has ropes tied to tree at top so that trekkers can use them for climbing. We reached to the top safely and from here view was simply breathtaking.
From here we started walking in the ridge towards downside. After a while we saw a hut which we discovered was a small temple. The guy offered us the tea but his partner forgot to prepare the same (ho gayi googly :D ), so we avoided wasting more time and went ahead. I observed that the flat route was also meeting the hut from other direction. But the views made it worth to climb the range :-). After getting some idea about the direction we went ahead. In the way we descended a ladder, which was very safe as compare to described in the internet. After walking for 15 more minutes we reached the railway trek. Here we had our lunch and then we moved forward. While walking on this path, we found many waterfalls, which certainly I enjoyed the most :D. The railway route pass through the road many times while moving towards Neral. So decided to get into the road from the very 1st intersection.
Luckily we found a empty cab going downwards which agreed to take us down. While returning I was looking for one waterfall which many people have told me about. To my surprise it was huge and seems really very good. I wanted to stop but others were exhausted and leaving the cab would have caused more walking. I did not want to hurt them and feel selfish, so I also didn’t insisted. We reached station in time and caught the train at 5:30 pm. Overall it was a good trek and I felt relieved after completing it :-).
Saturday, June 28, 2008
PEB Trek….A terrible experience
I was searching for a trek with waterfall.....hard to find though. But with the help of a friend I found one – Peb Trek. This place is near Matheran, I read a description of this place in some site and got very excited. This time 3 more guys agreed to join me for this trek. We was supposed to join a group form Neral. As always I was late to catch the early morning train from Dadar, we had to wait for 40 minutes for another train to come. As we were about to reach Neral, I got call from my friend, she told me that she has fractured her hand and is returning back. I was half asleep but this news took everything away. I asked about the Neral hospital address and we 4 guys started searching for same. When we reached hospital, everyone was in light mood, it was a relief to me that things were not serious. I am not comfortable with such situations, so throughout the route I was thinking how to react :D, but those guys made it easy. The weather was really soothing that day, other 3 guys were getting very impatient. I bid farewell to group and hospital and proceeded ahead for PEB. It was a pretty bad start but the worse was about to come…..
After reaching the base village we enquired about the way to trek but I guess villagers thought that we were looking for waterfall, instead of main path they showed us the route of a waterfall near the base. I believe this place is not known to lots of people. That day many other groups visited that trek but we found none in that place. It was a small waterfall, but this was my first waterfall for this season . We all had a nice bath and enjoyed the 'mercy' of god to the fullest. As monsoon has not reached its peak, I believe this place is worth visiting at the time of monsoon.
After around 1.5 hours!! we came out and started our journey towards the fort. One local guy offered his help as guide but god knows why we denied it :-(. Start for the trek was fine and we clicked lots of photographs while going up. We reached a plateau with a dry waterfall. After this route was really confusing, following other group suggestion we took a route from dry water way (first mistake - dry fall can never be a route). After walking for 10 min we reached a dead end, some guys climbed the rock patch but I was not pretty sure of climbing this patch. Luckily we found an alternative route. After this I don’t know what happened but we all turned towards a wrong direction. No rocks, only mud at a good inclination. For most of us, it was not a big problem, but one big problem was lurking at us. As we climbed the tough patch, one guy (let us call him “X”) started panicking.
I have never seen anyone so afraid as he was. He was literally shivering and his legs were trembling. Somehow I and one of my friends took X to the safe place. There was no way we would have go back so we decided to reach to the top and then to find a alternate way. X was so afraid that he was not even trying to cover small muddy patched. He was comfortable in climbing rocks but I guess he got terrified with muddy patches. I would not like to write more on this but, it was really horrible experience for him (include me too :D). Anyhow we reached the top. I was in the mood to go to the top of PEB trek, I even asked X to stay there itself but others were not in that mood and suggested to return. We were already very tired, I would have completed it alone but no one expect such things from a team member.
On mutual decision we started to go back. After walking for some time I got the feeling that we were again following some wrong route. Other guys were not agreeing with me. I suggested one idea which I always implement in such situation. We asked X and one guy to wait, I asked the guy left to go ahead for 10 minutes and walk back for next 10 minutes. I did the same thing but in the opposite direction. I returned early as I found no route. The guy who went ahead also came back disappointed. Then we decided to wait for one group who was descending from Peb fort, and were visible from the point where we started descending. I again went to the same place and to my surprise found that the route to descend was other than what we have seen (that means this was the third path for us, one which we used to come up, second which we were using for descending and third which other group used for descending). I came back and asked my group to come back. After resting for such long time X has restored his energy. I asked him to hurry up while descending. As rains were about to start and we wanted to reach to base village before sunset we required to increase our speed.
I was literally dragging X to follow me. (It was not exact dragging but I was holding his hand this time :-)). I was shouting constantly and was trying to boost him up. This route was very easy and we descended most of the part is a very short time. After reaching base village I had a nice bath in the water stream which removed all my tiredness. As always this water was refreshing and I was again ready to climb the peak :D.
We reached on time, had some heavy snacks, reached Neral station and were ready to leave for Mumbai. Train was scheduled at 6:35 pm and it was so overly crowded, which as always surprised me more. As it was Sunday, station was fill with “love birds” and college going guys n girls. This trek was unique and remembrable because of many reasons. The things which make it unique were presence of waterfalls and the experience I had with X. I think I am never gonna take such risk in future, even if I have to trek alone ;-)
After reaching the base village we enquired about the way to trek but I guess villagers thought that we were looking for waterfall, instead of main path they showed us the route of a waterfall near the base. I believe this place is not known to lots of people. That day many other groups visited that trek but we found none in that place. It was a small waterfall, but this was my first waterfall for this season . We all had a nice bath and enjoyed the 'mercy' of god to the fullest. As monsoon has not reached its peak, I believe this place is worth visiting at the time of monsoon.
After around 1.5 hours!! we came out and started our journey towards the fort. One local guy offered his help as guide but god knows why we denied it :-(. Start for the trek was fine and we clicked lots of photographs while going up. We reached a plateau with a dry waterfall. After this route was really confusing, following other group suggestion we took a route from dry water way (first mistake - dry fall can never be a route). After walking for 10 min we reached a dead end, some guys climbed the rock patch but I was not pretty sure of climbing this patch. Luckily we found an alternative route. After this I don’t know what happened but we all turned towards a wrong direction. No rocks, only mud at a good inclination. For most of us, it was not a big problem, but one big problem was lurking at us. As we climbed the tough patch, one guy (let us call him “X”) started panicking.
I have never seen anyone so afraid as he was. He was literally shivering and his legs were trembling. Somehow I and one of my friends took X to the safe place. There was no way we would have go back so we decided to reach to the top and then to find a alternate way. X was so afraid that he was not even trying to cover small muddy patched. He was comfortable in climbing rocks but I guess he got terrified with muddy patches. I would not like to write more on this but, it was really horrible experience for him (include me too :D). Anyhow we reached the top. I was in the mood to go to the top of PEB trek, I even asked X to stay there itself but others were not in that mood and suggested to return. We were already very tired, I would have completed it alone but no one expect such things from a team member.
On mutual decision we started to go back. After walking for some time I got the feeling that we were again following some wrong route. Other guys were not agreeing with me. I suggested one idea which I always implement in such situation. We asked X and one guy to wait, I asked the guy left to go ahead for 10 minutes and walk back for next 10 minutes. I did the same thing but in the opposite direction. I returned early as I found no route. The guy who went ahead also came back disappointed. Then we decided to wait for one group who was descending from Peb fort, and were visible from the point where we started descending. I again went to the same place and to my surprise found that the route to descend was other than what we have seen (that means this was the third path for us, one which we used to come up, second which we were using for descending and third which other group used for descending). I came back and asked my group to come back. After resting for such long time X has restored his energy. I asked him to hurry up while descending. As rains were about to start and we wanted to reach to base village before sunset we required to increase our speed.
I was literally dragging X to follow me. (It was not exact dragging but I was holding his hand this time :-)). I was shouting constantly and was trying to boost him up. This route was very easy and we descended most of the part is a very short time. After reaching base village I had a nice bath in the water stream which removed all my tiredness. As always this water was refreshing and I was again ready to climb the peak :D.
We reached on time, had some heavy snacks, reached Neral station and were ready to leave for Mumbai. Train was scheduled at 6:35 pm and it was so overly crowded, which as always surprised me more. As it was Sunday, station was fill with “love birds” and college going guys n girls. This trek was unique and remembrable because of many reasons. The things which make it unique were presence of waterfalls and the experience I had with X. I think I am never gonna take such risk in future, even if I have to trek alone ;-)
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Mahuli @ 15th July 08......ALONE with group :D
During my last trek to Rajmachi with Youngsterz, I heard about the other members of gang. Each of them sounds unique in their own way. I thought to meet each of them and to learn more about trekking. Youngsterz was planning to go to Mahuli and leader was Nilesh Patil, he is the main coordinator of this group. Hoping to meet him and to explore new place I decided to join them.
Planning was to leave early in the morning by train and to reach Asangaon. I was thinking to sleep early but it kept getting late and I slept around at 1 am. I had to wake up at 4 am to reach Dadar by 5 am. My train was scheduled at 5:20 am from there. I was so tired that day after gym that I couldn’t even sense the alarm. It was nice of my roommate who woke me up at 4:30 am to ask whether I was going or not. I really wanted to go but to leave bed at that point of time was almost impossible. I was trying so hard to leave it but just like a magnet it was not allowing me to go :-). My situation was just like Uma Thurman of Kill Bill-I movie. In this movie, she tries to wake up her paralyzed leg by concentrating on it. After hours of concentration she succeeds, it didn’t took me hours though but it must have taken few minutes. I stood up and started getting ready for trek. I left at 5:30 am, which means I was 1 hour behind. After reaching Dadar I came to know that next fast local to asangaon is at 7:30 am, I was really disappointed. Suddenly I saw a slow local leaving from platform opposite to me. To catch it I had only one option, to cross the railway line. I checked both the side, and there was no sign of any train. It was safe but I don’t know why I didn’t jump instantly. Suddenly a guy from behind jumped on the track to catch the train, my leg followed him w/o any delay and I was inside the train. I confirmed with fellow travelers about the destination, luckily got a seat. It was 6:30 am when my journey started. I was behind the group but was determined to catch them.
I reached Asangaon at 8:20 am, had some breakfast and inquired about the route. (This was my fault; I should have enquired it earlier). The guy told me the rite route but that route was not for trekker. From Asangaon a shortcut goes to Mahuli village. Instead of that I took an auto and went to “Shahpur”. (Please don’t do that). If I would have walked, it would not have taken me more than 1 hour to reach the base village, but by Shahpur route it took me 1.5-2 hours. At last I reached base village at 10:15 am, now I was approximately 2 hours behind the group. While walking towards Mahuli Village I got lift too which saved my time, otherwise I would have been very late. After reaching there I realized that Mahuli is a popular destination and around 5-6 four wheelers were parked in the village. I joined 3 guys in the way to have proper company. But these guys were really slow (one was a fatty, who was trying to hide his low stemmna by clicking photos here and there :P). I was determined to catch the group so I left them and went ahead. I have to say I am really fast when I am alone :-)
(Let me summarize the route – Go to Asangaon East and ask for walking route to Mumbai-Nasik Highway. Also ask the shortest route for Manas temple. After 15 min of walking you will reach highway, the entrance has a big banner for Manas temple, you can wait for bus here or can keep walking. After few minutes you reach a diversion. From here manas temple is clearly visible, also on the adjacent side banner of Mahuli fort is also present. From here Mahuli village is 3-3.5 kms. Just reach the base village and start the climb. Arrows indicating the right direction is in abundance so following the right route will not be a problem.)
After completing the first inclined patch I reached a small plateau, with a clear view of the destination. A ridge needs to be crossed to reach the top. I could see that the destination was far away and I was already feeling as if I have walked too much. But I could also see series of people climbing above; this motivated me and filled me with more energy. I started targeting one series at a time. Each time I took over one group of people I targeted next. In the whole climb, there was only one patch in which I loosed my balance, I know it’s early to say this but I am getting better as a trekker. :D.
I reached on top, climbed the iron ladder and it seems as if I have reached my destination. Some families (having mix of all ages) was also sitting on top, waiting for water. I offered them my water and we had some light talks. They knew about youngsterz group and told me that they just went ahead. I thanked them and again started following the group. Beyond my expectation the group was really large and unfortunately I was not able to recognize anyone. They were sitting near a water cistern. As per net I had to take a left turn from this place. Leaving them behind I went ahead. The arrows were prompting that I was on rite track. Moving ahead that track I came in a difficult position, the arrows vanished. An arrow on a tree was pointing towards a path going downwards!! My mind was not accepting it and I decided for youngsterz group to come.
To my surprise, the arrow was showing a rite path!! After meeting the group I met some of my old trek mates. It was delighted to meet those guys….we went ahead and reached the ruins of the fort. On the way we had “jamuns” (blackberry) which refreshed us for remaining trek. Here I met Nilesh, he was looking completely different from his orkut profile. He was very nice to me and we had a good talk. He told that many groups return from this place thinking this as the end point, but he had something to show us which was better than this place. We came back and took a right turn for our next destination. I was behind Nilesh who was leading us and talking about his experience as a trekker. He told that we need to do some rock climbing to reach the final destination. All the first timers (including me, though I am not one of them :-)) were very excited. But to my disappointment it was just a small rock patch. With the help of experience guys all of us climbed it safely and reached the destination. The view from this place was awesome, it really felt heaven like. A soothing and chilling wind was blowing at a constant rate. I sat there for 20-25 minutes just doing nothing but throwing stones against the wind :-). After this we went to Kalyan Darwaja and form there we returned back. (I wonder how many Kalyan Darwaja”S” are there in Maharashtra :D)
After Kalyan Darwaja we started to come back, the same rock patch took most of our time. I was in the mood to remain with the group, but sometimes big group also sucks :P. As we climbed down the iron ladder, group’s co leader Ananda told some of us about 5:30 bus. It was 4:25 pm on clock, he said if someone can reach early, he can stop the bus for others. I and two more guys agreed for this and started our journey hurriedly. For some time we all were together, but after few difficult patches one guy slowed down. Me and the guy left remain together for some more time, but then he also slowed down. He was under the impression that he will reach down in 45 minutes and will catch the bus. I had some other idea in my mind, I wanted to stop by the stream at the base and to take a nice bath in it. I don’t know how many of you will believe it but I completed the descending in “HALF AN HOUR”. I reached the stream and without wasting anytime jumped in it. I remain inside for 10-15 minutes, I wanted more but that would have meant missing the bus. I left that place and was literally running for the bus. And this time too I got a lift till bus stop. I would not call it a coincidence but now I believe there is something with me who helps me through this treks. What can I say, I am not blessed in other things so may be this is the thing (travelling/trekking) which I am blessed with. :D
Anyhow I reached bus stop on time , ate some chana-falli to get some energy. I was sure the group will not reach here before 45-60 minutes. As many of them were first timers and yups they were enjoying in their own way(in others words delaying themselves :P). Bus arrived, I talked to conductor, he was in a hurry and told me that there will be next trip at 6:30 pm. I tried calling Nilesh to tell him the situation, but was not connecting. So I send him a SMS telling about the situation. I reached the station at 6 pm. The train was scheduled at 6:17 pm, I stole some time to buy some fruits and have some refreshments. In this a great day was about to end and I was really happy I did it. I was travelling alone most of the time but believe my friends it was worth doing it :-)
To summarize Mahuli was better than my expectation and weather added more excitement in the trip. This was my 3rd trek this season and I have to say it is getting better every time. Firstly it was Karnala in scorching heat. Then it was Rajmachi, though in heat as well, but with a good group and lots of fruits ;). Now Mahuli, a great weather, with a better health condition and yups chilled stream of water too :-). Though, I missed rains and waterfall this time. During next trek I will try for some trek with some waterfalls and I hope that time Indra Dev will not disappoint me further :-)Friday, June 6, 2008
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