Moonlight Trek !!!

As it had been a long time since I had been to Bangalore, I had decided to go to Bangalore for a weekend. This time I had decided we will go to a place out of Bangalore for a change. One of my colleague had sent some snaps of a place near chikbalalpur . I called up Maruti and shared the snaps with him and asked him to check out the place .
The initial idea was to go for a trek with few of my friends and then have a mega get together with all of our friends for lunch in Bangalore. But as days rolled by , the number of guys who had put up their hands for the trip increased. So when i landed in Bangalore on 6th of October, the final count came to 45 guys.
As soon as I landed there, i lazed in my friend's apartment and went to my uncle's house . After I came back i went for a thai massage in Bodykraft . It was by far the best massage I had in my life and to top it, it was done by two chicks !!! Life's good :-)))
Post that I snoozed for some time and after dinner, we all assembled next in Indiranagar for the bus to come and pick us up. Maruti had booked a KSRTC booked for this trip (seating capacity of 55) and it stopped in Koramangla , Innerring road to pick guys on the way. There were also 3 of Sumith's friends who had joined us. RP had come from Hyderabad especially for this and so too did Shasank !! We all boarded the bus and at 11.30ish left Bangalore.
We had a whale of a time on the way with Roopak, Shashank, RP, Clum, Venkat, Gass, Maruti, Cheeky and urs humbly providing the fun quotient, vide singing songs, mimicking events from our hostel life etc.... This was easily the best part of our trip ...
In the meanwhile we had lost our way in the darkness which made our driver upset. We had to cajole him and after what it seemed an eternity we found the place.
We were greeted by the guide and we distributed the noodles, water bottles, firewood and bananas to all the people. After taking a snak and invoking God we hit the trail lat 2.30 a.m.
At the outset Pasu slipped and hurt his ankle. But he showed tremendous courage in recouping and finishing the full trial without any outward signs of discomfort. It was followed by Gana falling face fist into a pit ( I thought he was gone !!), but thank god , nothing happened to him !! As it was dark , we were helped by the torch lights and we snaked thru the trail. Many a times we slipped , tripped and lost others but we managed to reach the top by 05.45 a.m.
What greeted us cannot be put down into words !!! It was freezing, cold, windy at the same time breath taking !!! Nandi hills covered with clouds gave a nice pic !! We spent 2 hours there and post that we boiled water and had cup noodles.
Post that we started our way down at 8.15 a.m. and by 10.45 a.m. we started the bus back to Bangalore. We reached around 1.30 ish and had good home made food by Sumith and crashed !!!!
On the whole it turned out to be a memorable trip for all of us . One thins was sure - no one will come again for a trek !!!!! But the concept of getting together nearly 50 guys was a hit !! Hope to see many more of these !!!

Njoi the pics !! These were clicked by my friend RP & Maruti ......

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