My First TREK : HarishChandra Gad(Unforgettable)

I was planning to write blog for my 1st trek. n here i got opportunity to do this.

Lear group had planned trek on  27 May'2011 Friday.
We left office at 6.00 P.M. n reached at Kalyan on 7.30 PM by office bus.
We had some snacks n biryani at Prashant house (heartly Thanks to prashant ).
We left Prashant house at 9.00 PM and reached Kalyan ST depot.We did some time pass at Kalyan ST depot as Kedar Tambe n Dinesh were going to come. (latecomers)
We caught bus at 12.30AM i.e last bus or we can say 1^st bus of the next day, bus from Kalyan-Nagar.
Khubi-Phata is d stop where we alighted. we reached there around 3.00 AM (morning)
Khubi-phata is 90KM away from Kalyan n ticket fare is around 85RS.

Khireshwar is d base village which is 4KM away from Khubi-phata

Khireshwar Village

it took us 1 hour to reach d base of d fort. we reached the village at 4.00AM. There were small typical villagers’ houses, in front of these houses we put bedsheets (nothing but newspaper) n took rest for 2 hour.
We started climbing the fort at 6.30 n our 1st point was TOLAR khind (9.00 AM)

Tolar Khind

steep



 We managed to check-in into some of the caves where we took rest, n then started preparing Lunch (all time fav. food ) i.e. maggie.

Santosh Tea

Harishchandra temple

We also made tea at 4.00PM. (Don’t need to carry any twigs/burring material for making fire, Coz Vivek was carrying firewoods with him n we found firewoods on the top)n then we moved towards Kokan kada on 5.00 PM n reached there around 5.25PM

camp fire

tent on the rent

We arranged some material for camp fire.

then we started the camp fire, then we ordered dinner from TUKARM (who is a villager living at d fort.

Tukaram was goin to come at 8.30 but he came at 10.15, till then my condition had got very bad due to hunger. (So for breakfast we back calculated .. and told him to come much earlier … considering his reputation)We played a game “horror Stories” around the camp fire, where each person was telling a Horror story when suddenly we heard some odd terrifying sound…. A Kodak Moment .. worth capturing our horrified faces….

Finally we consoled ourselves saying that it was some animal (wild goat or Shekru)that was making such a noise

We slept at 12.00AM, that means on next day.

Tukaram came on Sunday morning getting Poha n tea along with him.
After breakfast we started our climbing down from d Konkan Kada
12.00pm START from top at 3.00 we reached base village n then some delicious food at Aishrya hotel (after an hours wait): DAL ,khichdi, maggie

n  luckily we hitch-hiked a truck at 5.00 PM towards khubi-phata
on reaching khubi-phata we didn’t get any transport towards kalyan hence we took a bus in the opposite direction and reached AALIPHATA (40KM) at abt 6.30, from Aaliphata we got a Nagar-kalyan bus( at7.30) n reached kalyan on 11.00 PM

This was my 1st trek in which i experienced rock patch climb, camp fire. It was really superb experience.




Trek-members

                                                                                                                                                                Vivek Dalvi                       

Abhishek Bavkar       

Kedar Tambe

Dinesh Badkas

Sourav

Santosh Kandarkar

Rasmiranjan Nayak

Abhijit Khadtare