Trek Nagalapuram, East 17-18 Sep 2011

17 Sept 2011

I had to reach CMBT by 4:20AM. It started pouring down from last night, I managed to wake-up by 03:00AM and managed to reach Nathan's cafe (near CMBT -regular pick-up or assemble point for almost all Chennai Trekking Club treks) in time after couple of auto-refusals. Due to heavy rain, we waited for a while and kicked-off our journey towards Nagalapuram by 05:30AM. I was in Premkumar's wagon car along with Adithya Verma & Anavardhan Raj. I met Prem during my 1st trek to Venkatagiri so I wasnt alone as Nithesh (co-worker) who joined me last time couldnt make it.  In about 2-2:30 hrs we reached Nagalapuram after having tea-coffee in Utthukottai.

All cars were parked off near temple, food-fruits-energy supplements or our ration was disturbed for the trek and we started walking. 
First view of walking along the bank of relatively decent pond with mountains at the backdrop on one-side and tall-lush green trees on the other-side was treat to eyes. 
This is one the reason most members come to trek -being with mother nature with cleanest of fresh air to breathe and crystal clear water to drink.

I kept taking a pictures, one of the organisers urged me to move ahead as there's lot of other places ahead to be photographed and so our trek started around 09:00 AM
We kept trekking by the stream crossing some-huge boulders to pools.

We reached dead-end pool 11:20 AM where we had breakfast or ate to refuel our bodies. 

We crossed the dead-end-pool with our bags ferried across using swimming tubes and swimmers assisting non-swimmers to cross the pool. At the end of which we had to cross this huge rock served as a natural obstacle.

After this we settled down to have lunch around 02:15 PM and continued our trekking till we reached our destination to stop-cook-rest- spend that night under the sky 
by picnic pool where we arrived just about dusk -maybe around 06:00 PM. 

 

Trek party cooked soup followed by sambar rice (bisibella bath) for dinner. rested our legs, bodies after settling down by the picnic pool and slept under open sky gazing at stars. It wasn't chill or cold that night rather pleasant with the sound of stream to keep company.

18 Sept 2011

Dawn (early morning) was spectacular ............. words cant explain or express the below

I kept waking-up few times and as expected missed to join few folks heading further up the pool to catch splendid views which I saw later on Adithya's camera. 

After spending some time swimming in the pool, taking loads of pictures and packing all set to come-down.We had something for breakfast and emptied sambar rice left from last night for lunch and started our de-tour around noon. Trekking back was something close to cake-walk with most of trekkers were comfortable with the route/trail.

 

Again by after dusk, Trek ended with almost everyone reached the starting point on the pond bank by 06:10 PM or so. We parted ways after having dinner in dhaba near Utthukottai. Prem dropped me in Lucas flyover & I reached home by 10:30 PM.

Another memorable experience trekking with CTC.  

Thanks for organisers Ela & Raj Jacob.