freedom celebration on hill(Kalavarahalli betta)
Pre-Trekking Events .
Prabal, the man behind most of the Trekking idea made a plan to conquer the Kalavarahalli betta on the very auspicious occasion of Independence Day celebration.
Every instruction and information was made available to us through mail and mobile and Prabal took extra care not to forget anything.
So according to the instruction we had to have gathered at a place called New Shanthi Sagar near domalur right at 5 am early in the morning to begin our journey in dawn. Der ka kaam shaitaan ka. And thus we (Devils) started our journey 1 hour late as was schedule and as was said morning shows the day and journey started with an accident, a skidding accident and guess that who were involved in that accident?
Of-course our lovable Bapu and Banarashi . That was the morning event and full day was still ahead.
Thanks to Bapu that he made partial use of bandage pack, which I was carrying.
We all were set to move ahead leaving the agony of morning but as it seems bad luck was not in a mood to disown us. We were searching a restaurant small or big where we can placid our appetite but that journey path was totally deserted with it. As everyone was feeling the heat of starvation but as it is said devil lives longer and so one of our comrade Mr Kabbu came as a savior with his eggs. I guess all us were eggitarian (doubt about deva) and so we satisfied small of our appetite with eggs.
Then there after our next stoppage was idely shop where we satisfied our total hunger with fantabulous idely and chatney and we refresh and relieved our selves.
Trekking…
Very soon we arrived to the point from which we had to have start our journey to conquer Kalavarahalli betta. We parked our vehicles and took some photos and began our freedom celebration.
As like always Prabal the engine lead the whole compartment and putting strength to stretch us to the apex of the mountain. As we were moving forward our trail was getting shorter. Mr. Kabbu was among the first who gave up the hope to clime all the way to the top and sooner then later two others html and smita joined him in the unsuccessful attempt of conquering Kalavarahalli betta. . In our uphill journey we enjoyed the various kind of drink from Tang, red-bull to real mixed fruit juice.
Me ,Prabal and Dev continued the journey with the same pace but other fellows decided to take a long rest and continue the journey with their own pace. As the distance of the top getting shorter the illusion getting stronger that it is an unending uphill task and I was also losing the patient but “doobte ko tinke ka sahara”. We saw a group coming down and I was amazed and inspired to see some of the members of that group as they were double in size and 4 times in weight compared to me and on top of that they were ladies. So I decided to continue no matter what happen later. But again bad luck stroked, we lost our way and went to a wrong direction. But finally decided to return back few miles (condition was so tough that climbing an inch was equivalent to 1 mile) and track to the other way.
I saw a flag hosted at the top of the mountain and I though that is it. At Last I reached to the top but that illusion did not last for long prabal disillusioned me by saying that there is some more climbing. For a moment I thought will there be an end or …. But somewhat I kept my patient and moved forward along with my mates. If you sweat you will succeed and it happened the same with us we sweat like a pig and at last we conquered the mountain. Pleasant breeze along with mesmerizing scene welcomed us at the top with .We forgot all our pain and sweat and started enjoying the life out there.
As we thought we are the only survivors of to the top but we were wrong. RPG, Banarshi and Viru also joined us after sometime in our rendezvous.
Post-Trekking Events .
Downward Trekking is supposed to be an easy task but few among us disagree with it and I am among those. From the top when I looked down I felt as it’s a steep vertical slop. We started our downward journey on a chew gum note. While coming down we took help of all part of our body from hand, legs to buttocks. Deva I think was the master in using his body part pretty well.
While coming down I lost my paint my sweet lovely levis paint. And I heard RPG and company faced really some tough challenges. As was said morning shows the day and the same happened to RPG. His bad luck was in no mood of ditching him and he rolled down several times while coming down.
Fortune favors the brave and so did to us. We all wear happy safe and kicking.
Till the next journey bye bye…
