Trek to the
Kudremukh Peak amidst the clouds.
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Diya MM and Nikku
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Drizzle, raising clouds after the spell of rains, gives the
feast to the lens, Chirping sounds of the birds and stridulating sounds of the
cricket or grass whooper, gives the soothing music to the ears, the walk by the
trekkers on the dry and wet leaves gives the cushioning effect to the feet, gurgling
streams, Waterfalls, leeches on the way sends the female folks frenzy was
all an experience by itself says Miss Diya Mantesh Mundasad of Excel Public
school, Mysore.
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| Swetha MM |
Come Dasara vacation the youth fraternity to impress others ponder
over going to different location overseas, but I chose to explore our own
Karnataka State. Here my mom Swetha MM
had already registered my name for this arduous trek to the Kudremukh peak
which is about a distance of 20 km in one single day and I was wondering whether
I will be able to do it!
But when my mom had booked, I was wondering she would had
known better for me and I just boarded the bus with 21 other trekkers from
Kanakapura, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mysore who were from different age group from 6th
std to 58 years of age.
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| Tiger Solanki |
This trek was organized by Tiger Solanki, and ardent
adventure enthusiast of Tiger Adventure Foundation who has more than 45
expedition to his credit in Himalayas and I was pretty sure when he is leading
the trek it is going to be adventurous only with little scope for anything else.
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| Mallika |
We just hogged our breakfast at a city joint and left to the
destination, Mullodi via Balegal in Kalasa town which is about 15km from
Kalasa. On the way we had opportunity of seeing the historical temple in Halebidu
which was done by the Hoysala Empire. The architecture and the history narrated
by the guide there was simply mind boggling says Ms Mallika Ramesh of the
Kanakapura.
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| Minu Verma |
After a journey of 5 hours it was time for the lunch and
Gavikal club and resort was a perfect ambience for the same were in we dined and
played little bit of carom, snooker, billiards and table tennis and the lush
green in front of the dining area gave the feast to our eyes says Ms Meenakshi
Vijay Verma of Kapleshwar in Uttarakhand and who is settled now in Mysore.
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| Anagha |
As we came down to the Balegal the trekkers got down and
boarded for another vehicle to have the best of its experience which was full
of bumpy ride and it was as similar to having a ride in tora tora in the Mysore
Dasara Exhibition says Miss Anagha Sridhar who is pursuing her under graduate
course in Jain College, Bangalore.
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| Kavitha@Harshitha |
We got down from the bumpy ride and checked into a home stay
in mullodi which was run by Mr.Raje Gowda whose home is just a furlong away
from the Forest check post who managed our who program with utmost care and
precision says Mrs. Kavitha Gururaj, a house wife who is venturing into the
adventure era after so many years after the marriage.
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| Santosh |
It was Tuesday morning 5am when we woke to the taunting
tantrums of tiger who said coffee and woke the whole 21 of us from the sleep to
sip the jaggery coffee, it was followed by 6am breakfast and then followed by
pack lunch after that the real adventure was to start and when we were
introduced to new faces who were our guides called Mr Prakash and Mr Venkatesh
who will lead to the destination Kudremukh peak were as Mr Prakash led us from
the front amidst his nonstop chatterbox giving an insight into the trek and sometimes
motivating us when we go down and giving a helping hand when were supposed to
cross the streams by placing the stones so that we can cross the same safely
says Santhosh M of Rangson Group.
The trek started amidst the caution order from the forest
department to not, to litter the range with the plastics and garbage, but to
get back the same and return back to the check post so that they could dispose
it off said the watchers of the forest department.
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| Vijayashree & Pramod |
It was little climb initially which gives a jittery moment
but after some time as we crossed the stream and climb the path we get to the katte
mara. We could see the Katte mara were we sat and meditated for few seconds and
by the time everybody could come we were treated to the eyes with the raising
clouds behind the scene which is going to be an everlasting memory in my life
says Ms Vijayashree pramod who works in BSNL, Mysore.
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Punitha
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We trekked amidst the drizzle, clouds and some time when we
used to see the leech trying to climb on us we used to shout out for help to
the organizers to get ourselves absolve from the leech menace says Mrs. Punitha
Pradeep of Mysore.
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Pramod and Vijayashree couple at Kudremukh peak
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But the path amidst the shola forest was exciting as we could
hear the chirping sounds of the birds, and crickets, along with them trekkers
movements on the dry leaves also gave different insight to ears says Mr Pramod
Of Bangalore.
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Shobha
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We passed through the Vonti mara (Single tree) but the climb
to reach the vonti mara is little tedious, though it was not the first time she
was trekking but it was little more than tough says Mrs Shobha Sridhar a
Working professional in mysore.
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| Nagesh |
We climbed through different terrain but the valley view with
green meadows gave a feast to the eyes and we could see the lens man capturing
the movement in the camera and few in their mobile says Mr Nagesh Kumar D who
is working as Supt of Excise, Govt of Karnataka.
As the team was moving towards the destination we also
encountered the ruins of the lobos home and the church and we could walk the
path in different modes depending upon the endurance were people took the
difficult path and the horse path too says Mr Sridhar DV of Mysore.
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Mamatha DP
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After arduous task of walking for more than 5 hours we
summitted on the Kudremukh peak at 11.55am and it was one major accomplishment
for me as I had not done any trek in my life and it was first of its kind which
I had never dreamt that one day I will be doing it says Ms Mamatha DP of
Mysore.
On the summit the trekkers relished the motichur ladu along
with the sumptuous meal of tamrind rice and curd rice and after seeing the
scenic beauty of the place we started descending to the Home stay, but alas the
charming beauty of the place was holding us back for some more picture and we
shot some videos and pictures to give a perfect movie for the graduation day.
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| Pranitha |
We also visited the ruined site of the church to have a
glimpse of the place and the day ended with all the trekkers complaining about
the knee jerk pain because of the descend but never the less it was different
experience as we had accomplished the task says Pranitha Pradeep of National
Public School, Mysore.
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| Nikku |
On 2nd Oct 2019, we were all set to go to the
somvati waterfalls but none of the trekkers were ready as they were exhausted
but you know tiger Solanki sir who motivated almost few of them and went down
the falls and once the people who refused were the most to enjoy, says Ms
Nikkita Ballur of Mysore.
The day was yet to end and we ended up for one more
adventurous journey of seeing the tea garden in the kalasa and it was a perfect
photo finisher of the three day trek program.
The List of the participants was: 1. AMOGH
SRIDHAR
2. ANAGHA SRIDHAR 3. ANIKETH J RAO
4. DIYA M MUNDASAD 5. KAVITHA P
6. MALLIKA J V 7. MAMATHA D P
8. MEENAKSHI VIJAY 9. NAGARAJAN S
10. NAGESH KUMAR D 11. NIKITHA BALLUR A
12. OJAL J RAO 13. PRAMOD GUNJIKAR
14. PRANITHA. P 15. PUNITHA PRADEEP
16. SANTHOSH B 17. SARTHAK KUMAR
VERMA
18. SHOBHA SRIDHAR 19. SRIDHAR DV
20. SWETHA M MUNDASAD 21. VIJAYASHREE PRAMOD
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| Girls rock at the waterfalls |
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| Enjoying the paddu |
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Enjoying the lush greens amidst
the clouds |
Indeed it was an awesome experience, 💓💓😍😍
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