It was a long weekend. Nearly everyone had May 1st off. The desparation to go somewhere was extremely high in me.
It just did not happen. I have changed plan so many times before this one day trip that it makes my head spin.
Here's a brief summary of everything that I had to ditch due to some reason or the other:
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This is a continuation of the previous blog (as the title suggests). Details about our exploits of day one can be found here.
Now that we had completed Ettina Bhuja successfully, we decided to do the long pending Deepadakallu and Jenkallu guDDa (which is right next to Deepadakallu).
So, we immediately called Mithun who had done this peak before and ( Read more... )

I was wondering what to expect in this trek due to multiple reasons. Some people had wished me a nice journey and experience whereas the others had wished that really bad things would happen to me.
It looked as though the latter parties would win when I realized that Subbu and Bhatta would lead us during the trek and more importantly, I forgot my ( Read more... )

Now that I have sustained another ankle injury which has spoiled my plans of going to kudremukh this weekend, I have decided
to finally blog about my second outing to Ombattu Gudda two weeks ago!
This place always gets the better of us! But we get drawn back to it again and again like bad husbands in kannada movies to
the arack shops! We have ( Read more... )

The beginning:

"So, where shall we go this weekend?", I asked Bhatta.
This is how it starts every weekend. And we try to come up with some nice place each time.
Our options were running out. Between us, we had covered a lot of the Dakshina Kannada, Chikmagalur region.
(Actually, most of it done by him).
So, looking for a change we decided to go to one ( Read more... )

My first post in months!!
I haven't been on here since I broke my leg three and a half months ago and
hence my life turned into a documentary on "How to lead a boring life".
During this inauspicious time, many of my good friends decided to leave India as well.
(They just could not stand my suffering)
I didn't accomplish much either. The only outing I ( Read more... )

"Tick tock tick tock.. The clock is ticking.
You must lose it by the next time I am back."

The Leaky Cauldron.

What started as a plan to go to Kudremukh turned to a trip to Coorg.
We initially were planning to go to one of the peaks in the KNP range.
Then it was the Agumbe - Narasimha Parvata trek we set our sights upon.
Due to rains and some other issues, we had to abandon that.
We also abandoned plans to Kuringal GuDDa and Brahmagiri due to some permission ( Read more... )

For the lack of having anything else useful to do a few of us decided on going on one of your run-of-the-mill one day bike trips.
This generally involves a bike ride for 2-3 hours, a hill to climb, lunch on the way back somewhere on the highway and reaching the town back just before nightfall.
Moch had called the previous night to inform me that we' ( Read more... )