Trek-to-KP.
Night 1.
- Early start to our man’s place.
- Chronic hunting for footwear.
- Decision to abandon excess medical paraphernalia.
- Dinner
- To Majestic.
- In the Bus.
- Crazy Stuff.
- Somvarpet, by dawn.
Day 1.
- To Bidalli.
- Ass Load of weights.
- To Hegde-Mane.
- Dump Luggage.
- Malalli Bound.
- Lag Behind
- Lose way.
- Go Descend some hill.
- Crazy Stuff by the river.
- Find way back.
- Meet rest of the Junta at Malalli Falls.
- Catch up with these useless fucks.
- Traumatic Jeep Journey to Hegde Mane.
- Yes! That dude is Heavy!
- Camp at Bidalli.
Night 2
- Star Watching.
- Bunking Dinner
- Crazy Stuff.
- More Astronomy
- Sleep.
Day 2
- Begin Trek to KP
- Ass Load of weights.
- Get to KP / Kukke detour.
- Drop Luggage.
- Ascend 3 Rock faces towards KP Summit.
- This Woman Starts to Puke.
- She pukes even more.
- She gives up, 400 ft away from the top.
- Finally makes it.
- Relaxation at the top.
- Begin Descent
- More Puking
- The Pukathon continues.
- Refuses to head with the rest of the junta (valid reason, perhaps).
- Finally down to where our bags where. Medicines taken.
- The Pukathon rages on.
- The Climax, I guess. ‘Like a Cronjob scheduled every 10 minutes. You know when one’s coming!
- The trek is long. Really long. And we ‘ve run out of water.
- Ass load of luggage. Add another ass load.
- I wondered if she’d need a stretcher.
- Midway through, Some Marie Biscuits do the trick. She stops with the pukathon.
- Goddamn it, the sunset’s beautiful but it’s nearly dusk and we’ve the end nowhere in sight.
Well…the end seemed to be somewhere near the horizon. But when you ‘re high up, your tangential visibility goes up exponentially. It was probably a good 5km away I guess..of rigorous terrain too. - A moonlight trek henceforth! how romantic. Especially with the ass load of weights and one strapped on to your front too. Can’t see a freakin’ thing.
- Finally, reach the rest of the junta (half dead and worried about us) at 9:30.
- Pleasant warm bath.
Night 3
- Comatose Sleep.
Day 3
- They smoke up. As usual.
- Some disgusting breakfast.
- Crap. After a couple of days, nearly.
- Trek towards Kukke.
- Crazy Stuff in between.
- Kukke at 2 in the afternoon.
- Lunch!
- Drop luggage at Ananta Nalluraya’s place.
- To Kumaradhara, for a bath.
- The Temple, 5PM.
- Roaming about.
- Picture Sessions.
- Dinner - 8PM
- The Bus - 10:30PM.
Night 4
- Crazy Stuff.
- No Sleep.
- Very Un-comfy, Cold and forced to be in near-crippling, muscular-spasm-inducing postures.
- Bangalore at dusk.
Excellent Trek, Resilient Women, The Darshan, The dip. Well nearly everything, but for the weights.
January 25, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Pukathon!! LOL… can imagine how irritating it can be..