My second trip with BASC and first night trek ever, and from the word go, I knew this was gonna be epic! Here’s the scoop …
Monday, September 30, 2013
I heard from my friends that Bangalore has got lot of hiking groups. Though I joined this group about a year back when I came to Bangalore for the first time, I always waited for some company to go on a trek. This time I decided to go anyway and registered for the trek alone.
The journey started from majestic. A group of 19 of us gathered at majestic bus stop. To my surprise, there were at least 4 people who were doing their trek for the first time like me. The journey started with a movie The Conjuring, it was midnight, a perfect time to play. After travelling for around 6hrs, we stopped our bus about 2km before the base camp. We reached the base camp at around 6:30 AM, where we were greeted by a pair of dogs :P. After finishing with our morning activities, Vinay & Varun prepared lemon tea for us and had our breakfast which we brought along.One more journey with all those unknown people, to unknown places, for unknown experiences.
Meeting up all of them on a common track, with all the excitement seen clearly on faces.
It might sound a little too much, but we started with colors and skips and whoever had WILD, won…!
Carrying on to playing dumb and back on to the days of understanding the sign languages, surely those ancestors would have had fun…!
Turning down our expectations (not enthusiasm), on those tracks we continued our 'safar'.
Walk in forest, crossing smallest streams, lunching was a good break.
With the ride on the jeeps there was a kick of a different beginning of this journey.
The sound of silence, sight of green, and a drive which cannot be bribed by any power of money!
The haunted house or temple was just a decided place.
But the destination was right there in the middle of the two, right in that space!
Now I know how it feels to have a ray of hope, now I know how difficult it is to maintain it, now i know how important it is to have it…,
For when it is not there, something called darkness will never quit!
Or were we all just celebrating the fact that there were so many people around blessed with their voice as god's gift.
Well, then comes a moment when you feel you are truly blessed, so much so that a tear can roll down from your eyes.
A moment when you have sky to shelter, real stars to perform, wind to set the right breeze, river for the music, ALL of them together to give you those highs..!
Of course we did not forget that there should be a trek in this trek, so this time it was not for a peak of a mountain but the height from where that water falls…!
Splash that water by yourself and you will know how it feels; but for that you got to get dirty, spend your weekend with those snakes, leeches instead of malls!
How it feels to see that water falling, to feel the water falling, to see it upside down, to just be in there.
You would go again like we did, but for that you got to leave your comfort zone and jump in, would you dare?
Out from water and there is a splash from nature in form of rain.
So we got down and jumped in the stream again!
And the magic happens when rain meets music and we witness them complimenting each other.
It gets better when we look around just to find the right company of those rivers, mountains and clouds just to foster.
Or it can, with just Mafia and such other set of games.
Leaving from a common track to get on to a common concrete jungle with all the feelings mixed.
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Written by: Pooja
Image Gallery: Gautham Baliga, Manoj, Johnson Pinto, Megha
Composed by: Chyavan K S
Event organized by: Raveendra G N
Event Date: 28th & 29th September 2013
The Crew: Ashok G, Rahul, Gautham, Manoj Kumar N, Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Nitin Sharma, Johnson Pinto, Chandru, Abhishek Guptha, Vijayananda SB, Sudheendra Sharma, Shanthi Prasad J C, Megha DS, Kavyashree KN, Ashwini Rao, Vidya Sagar H, Sudhakar H, Yashaswini, Jayanth V, Sanjay, Raveendra GN
Monday, September 16, 2013
Today morning when the blaring sound of the TV and unforgiving honking of the uncaring motorists of Bangalore (or any other city for that matter) gave me a wake up jolt, did I truly realise my call to wilderness.Like our womb mothers the universal “mother” too handles her children gently, especially at wake up time. She wakes us with the tenderness of a cool breeze and the sweetness of her innumerable nightingales. If the confluence of the chirping birds, buzzing of the busy bees and the whistling of the winds are not her melodious symphony, then what is? Unfortunately, we her children, have distanced ourselves from her in our ambition driven avaricious pursuits and encasing ourselves in economic monstro-cities, where we neither have time nor the inclination to hear her call of losing a child.Monday, September 9, 2013
After spending about 8 months at my home in Calcutta, largely doing nothing of note except for being overfed on home food, I decided to move to the city of Bangalore to pursue my interest in biking slightly more seriously. While I have spent most of my weekends cycling since getting a bike in Bangalore, I have also done the odd trek now and then. I had attempted the 300 Km brevet on Aug 31st and decided not to ride much the next weekend (and in the process give my sore legs some well deserved rest).I was desperate for a trek so I called my friend Sanju Baba.Well-networked Sanju baba soon found out that BASC was organizing a day trek on Sunday. 
Mist evening with rain; sky covering dark slowly; lost the trail and since 3 hours struggling to find out the way to reach the base camp; alas!!! We had hardly 30 minutes to reach the civilization; lost in the Jungle. These all are the wonderful and so very adventurous memories of 2 days BASC (Bangalore Ascenders) trek around Mullayanagiri – Chandradrona Parvatha on 7th – 8th September 2013. Monday, September 2, 2013
Written by Shamanth:
Charmadi ghat is around 300 KMs drive from Bangalore. It is a part of Western Ghats and located in Belthangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. It is a unique place as you can find variety of rare medicinal plants and rare animal species in the world. But for a nature lover, this Ghat is just a package of unlimited natural beauty. The real beauty of Charmadi can be seen only during the monsoon season. My First two day trek with BASC.
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