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 28^th-29^th 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.

After reaching that point I met four guys who were standing in front of a dead rock. The only way to go ahead was to cross the rock, and it was easy to cross it. As always I volunteered and asked them to wait for me. I crossed that rock and went ahead to check the route. (Btw I was already sure of this route as I have checked the other routes last time and this was the only one left.) After walking for 5 minutes, the wall of fort was visible. I returned back and conveyed the same message to the group. I helped them to climb the rock and we moved forward towards fort. We rested in the caves for a while, I told them about what I have read. I told them if we will keep moving and cross this hill we can reach to Matheran-Neral rail route.

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 1^st 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 :-).