I was all excited to have enrolled, gave fitness test for Night Trek - Nagalapuram.
Another reason is Nithesh was joining this time after missing out on Nagala -East.
Am gloomy as there's no camera for this trek to capture sunrise from an altitude of 880m.
12 Nov 2011
As always at 04:15 PM, Nathan's cafe met couple of new friends. We started at 05:45 PM from CMBT as one member got too delayed which made us wait for over an hour. For strange reasons, Guru(organiser) took Tiruverkaadu route with 4 folks in Anitha's i10, our van followed them and it was already 06:30 PM when we crossed Tiruverkaadu Junction.
We reached Nagalapuram by 09:40 PM, food was distributed and night trek started at 10PM.
kept trekking by talking initially - I had to carry Varunesh's bag who wasn't moving a bit which slowed my pace considerably and tired me out sooner than expected.
Guru -the organiser was trying to push Varuneesh going but he doesn't want to proceed further. Guru was also carrying 2 bags. After almost 90 min into the trek -Rajsekar waited to check if everyone is alright. He joined Guru in trying to make Varunesh move further.
13 Nov 2011
After a brief halt for sometime to energize our bodies, we reached a place where we left most luggage-carried bare essentials to reach the hill-top. Me & Nithesh decided to carry his bag-leaving my bag back. It was at this place where Varunesh decided to stay back or was left back. Rest 16 of us moved ahead trekking in night with the help of torches, moon-light & other foot-steps.
Finally about 03:40 AM we scaled 880m peak South peak in Nagalapuram. The view was just amazing and very hard to put in words. Take a look at the pictures below.
It was so cold and chill, we tried to rest-take a nap in-between those humungous rocks and whatever little bit space was available. They should have lit some fire using those dry branches available -wonder why it wasn't done.
We waited till sun woke-up to witness amazing sun-rise slowly from the horizon with vast open fields below & mountains all around us. The wait was worth-it baring the cold, clouds
We started our detour by descending down around 7AM or so.
As during the ascend, it was Brijesh who was leading us with the help of GPS.
We met Varunesh; at this point Brijesh & Rajsekar made soup for us. After re-fueling our tummies its time to move down which looked as if it's never going to end.
Still we kept trekking at a place for close to about 30-40 min till we came back in trail with GPS. I kept hearing the noise from the stream ---kept trekking down still the stream never showed up. Finally around 01:30 PM or so we spotted the stream. few guys in front kept moving down....me and Nithesh joined Brijesh and others in no-time we reached the 2nd pool by 02:10 PM. spent some time in pool..swam and changed while Nithesh joined Brijesh and others to the 3rd pool.
Trek concluded with all of us reaching parking bay around 5PM. As in all treks it seems like customary to booze in Himalaya wines near Uttukottai before we got dropped in Koyambedu by 08:30 PM
Another reason is Nithesh was joining this time after missing out on Nagala -East.
Am gloomy as there's no camera for this trek to capture sunrise from an altitude of 880m.
12 Nov 2011
As always at 04:15 PM, Nathan's cafe met couple of new friends. We started at 05:45 PM from CMBT as one member got too delayed which made us wait for over an hour. For strange reasons, Guru(organiser) took Tiruverkaadu route with 4 folks in Anitha's i10, our van followed them and it was already 06:30 PM when we crossed Tiruverkaadu Junction.
We reached Nagalapuram by 09:40 PM, food was distributed and night trek started at 10PM.
kept trekking by talking initially - I had to carry Varunesh's bag who wasn't moving a bit which slowed my pace considerably and tired me out sooner than expected.
Guru -the organiser was trying to push Varuneesh going but he doesn't want to proceed further. Guru was also carrying 2 bags. After almost 90 min into the trek -Rajsekar waited to check if everyone is alright. He joined Guru in trying to make Varunesh move further.
13 Nov 2011
After a brief halt for sometime to energize our bodies, we reached a place where we left most luggage-carried bare essentials to reach the hill-top. Me & Nithesh decided to carry his bag-leaving my bag back. It was at this place where Varunesh decided to stay back or was left back. Rest 16 of us moved ahead trekking in night with the help of torches, moon-light & other foot-steps.
Finally about 03:40 AM we scaled 880m peak South peak in Nagalapuram. The view was just amazing and very hard to put in words. Take a look at the pictures below.
It was so cold and chill, we tried to rest-take a nap in-between those humungous rocks and whatever little bit space was available. They should have lit some fire using those dry branches available -wonder why it wasn't done.
We waited till sun woke-up to witness amazing sun-rise slowly from the horizon with vast open fields below & mountains all around us. The wait was worth-it baring the cold, clouds
We started our detour by descending down around 7AM or so.
As during the ascend, it was Brijesh who was leading us with the help of GPS.
We met Varunesh; at this point Brijesh & Rajsekar made soup for us. After re-fueling our tummies its time to move down which looked as if it's never going to end.
Still we kept trekking at a place for close to about 30-40 min till we came back in trail with GPS. I kept hearing the noise from the stream ---kept trekking down still the stream never showed up. Finally around 01:30 PM or so we spotted the stream. few guys in front kept moving down....me and Nithesh joined Brijesh and others in no-time we reached the 2nd pool by 02:10 PM. spent some time in pool..swam and changed while Nithesh joined Brijesh and others to the 3rd pool.
Trek concluded with all of us reaching parking bay around 5PM. As in all treks it seems like customary to booze in Himalaya wines near Uttukottai before we got dropped in Koyambedu by 08:30 PM
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