Dream Trek to Kumara Parvatha (25 - 26th Feb '17)
I am very excited to tell about my experience with BTC
organized two-day trek to KP.
It was around 9.45 pm on Friday 24, 2017, we (me and my
hubby) reached Majestic with lot of questions in the back of the mind running
about the trek and the team...Pavan introduced himself and said already there
are few people waiting the other side..okay, we went joined them. It was a team of 21 members, 20 had come and
it was 10.30 pm. Abhilash was yet to join
and it was 10.36 pm, that he joined and we finally started our dream trek.
First everyone introduced each other with a very innovative
way. The organizers came up with
innovative methods to keep the group interactive and it did work. All felt energized and started to have fun
with games, conversation, etc. By then,
we stopped for a coffee/tea, it was around 12.00 am. After this break, everyone slipped into
sleep. It was about 5.30 am, we reached
Kukke Subramanya. After freshening up
and having our breakfast, we started to trek.
Satheesh started leading us as he had done this trek before (but he made
us to walk 0.5 km extra as he got confused :)).
We entered proper forest area, beginning was good. As we started climbing, it became harder and
harder as we all were carrying our tents, sleeping bags, water bottles, and
some food..huh.. Supporting each other, we were able to climb to First stage
that is Bhattra Mane, the only house in the mountain...what a sigh..We all
started unfolding our back packs and we placed our tents in the forest area
near the house. Everyone were very
hungry and in the Bhatra Mane, the hot rice and sambar was ready and in no time,
we all finished lunch, and started to take rest in the places wherever shade
was present.
At 4.30 pm, we all started to climb the small hill to a sunset
point. There gang started to play the
game for sometime, and sunset was incredible visual treat, which we all enjoyed
in silence.
We descended by 6.30 pm and reached our tents. At 8.30 pm, we all had our dinner and played
antakshari for some time. Our organizers
asked us to be ready by 3.30 am, as we have to start trek by 4 am maximum so that we
can reach peak without sunburn :). The 3
organizers got up before everyone else and started waking everybody and made
sure we started from Bhatra Mane by 4 am, and we reached forest department office
wherein we were given permission to trek, and thus we started our second half
climbing by 4.36 A.M.
The climb was very hard, though scenes and the journey was
awesome and very memorable for us. Half
way up, Satheesh told us that we might be going in the wrong direction, and his
instinct was right. Pavan made us to wait
and he found out that we were little deviated from the route. Thank god, we had not gone too far!!!!
Immediately, team was directed to right route, and we started to climb
again. It was never ending...we reached
Pushpagiri mountain peak and it was a great view and the most amazing feeling
we had due to its scenic beauty. It was
worth a climb.
We had to get down and climb another hill to reach
Kumaraparvatha peak...started feeling how much more... but did not think much
as there were many people in gang and we were having interactions with each
other...And in the group one person showed us a Flag and told us that it was
the peak and we were very near to that....it was such a happy feeling....and we
did it. All of us reached the peak by 9
o'clock, wohoooo, pretty good
timing. What an enthusiastic team i must
say, no body gave up. We all screamed
with joy...It was worth a Climb...we took pictures for proof that we did KP
treak :)...Great Feeling.
After having breakfast, we started descending the hill by
9.30 am. By 1.30 pm, we reached back bhatra
mane. Had lunch, took little rest and
started climbing downhill to Kukke.
Hurray!!!! WE ALL MADE IT...AWESOME TREK...GOOD TEAM....WELL
ORGANIZED...
I would like to thank all the three organizers Pavan Teja,
Amol, and Ishaan for being so cooperative and also all the team members who
have been very enthusiastic..
Thank you all...Glad I was a part of this trek.
Written By : Suma Sharma
Date of event : 25-26 Feb 2017
Place : Kumara Parvatha
Pictures : BTC FB Page
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