Life "Rocks"!!!!
Savandurga!!!
We decied on Friday to go to Savandurga on Sunday the 2nd of July.
Let me give u a brief info abt this place
Savandurga is 60kms from Bangalore and is very near to the historic town of Magadi.
After watching the disappointing clash between Brazil and France I slept around 2:30am to getup at 7:30 in the morning.
According to our plan we were required to assemble at 8:30 at Jalhalli cross, but later v found that that is actually very far, so we decided to assemble at KHB colony bus stand.
It was around 9 o’ clock when all the HCTs(Hard core trekkers) arrived.
After some chit chat v decided to quench our hunger en route.
The road to Magadi in parts was not in proper condition, but we didn’t expect much either. The ride on the bike in the strong winds was very pleasing.
It was around 11:30am by the time we reached Savanadurga after some pit stops on the way.
The rock was this biiiigggg Monolith.
There were a couple of routes leading to the top ranging from medium to very tough difficulty levels.
Most of the ppl were going through the common route, But we decided to go by the tough one.
The climb was awesome. There were some spots on the rocks which gave us a good seat whenever we were tired.
The view from those points were superb, we could see the black sloppy rock stretching beneath us.
We had covered almost 60% of the rock and noticed the other group coming down. They told the wind was blowing fast at the top and it was difficult to climb further. We decided to climb down against our desire of conquering the rock. L
Climbing(sliding) down was fun as well until the incident that took out breaths away.
We had almost gotten down, as usual Mr. Late(Harsha) was leading us and he was in full enthu(as usual)
Don’t know what struck his mind suddenly he started running towards us. To our shock the sony Cam popped out of its bag(may be in excitement to see why Late was running) and bang on the rock it fell and started rolling towards the base.
All of us were sitting hoping that it would stop but it didn’t.
When Harsha got it back and signaled that it was functioning normally we were relieved.
Once v got down we had some bananas and started moving towards the top by the other route.
There was some flaw in our planning, we had decided to have food after finishing the trek. It didn’t take us much time to realize our fault. Ours tummy was crying out loudly.
We finally made it to the top. The scene on the top was completely different. The strong wind was making us believe that even we could fly..
The sound of the wind was as if it was the mixture of thousands of voices ….but still smooth.
After spending some good amount of time we finally decided to descend. It was around 4:30 when v got down. We ate some stuff and then got on the back of bikes. The weather was such a relief, it was slightly drizzling, cool air and a calm surrounding.
We decided to visit “Venkataramana” temple on the outskirts of Magadi.
We realiased that the temple has some historic value as well. The temple was renovated by “Chelas” 1000 years ago.
It was around 7:30 pm when we came to KHB colony.
DJ had a flat tyre(thankfully we were in city limits then), after some search we got the patch done.
We had a fantastic dinner and a good chit chat in Parkview in Vijaynagar…..Great end to an equally great day!!!
We decied on Friday to go to Savandurga on Sunday the 2nd of July.
Let me give u a brief info abt this place
Savandurga is 60kms from Bangalore and is very near to the historic town of Magadi.
After watching the disappointing clash between Brazil and France I slept around 2:30am to getup at 7:30 in the morning.
According to our plan we were required to assemble at 8:30 at Jalhalli cross, but later v found that that is actually very far, so we decided to assemble at KHB colony bus stand.
It was around 9 o’ clock when all the HCTs(Hard core trekkers) arrived.
After some chit chat v decided to quench our hunger en route.
The road to Magadi in parts was not in proper condition, but we didn’t expect much either. The ride on the bike in the strong winds was very pleasing.
It was around 11:30am by the time we reached Savanadurga after some pit stops on the way.
The rock was this biiiigggg Monolith.
There were a couple of routes leading to the top ranging from medium to very tough difficulty levels.
Most of the ppl were going through the common route, But we decided to go by the tough one.
The climb was awesome. There were some spots on the rocks which gave us a good seat whenever we were tired.
The view from those points were superb, we could see the black sloppy rock stretching beneath us.
We had covered almost 60% of the rock and noticed the other group coming down. They told the wind was blowing fast at the top and it was difficult to climb further. We decided to climb down against our desire of conquering the rock. L
Climbing(sliding) down was fun as well until the incident that took out breaths away.
We had almost gotten down, as usual Mr. Late(Harsha) was leading us and he was in full enthu(as usual)
Don’t know what struck his mind suddenly he started running towards us. To our shock the sony Cam popped out of its bag(may be in excitement to see why Late was running) and bang on the rock it fell and started rolling towards the base.
All of us were sitting hoping that it would stop but it didn’t.
When Harsha got it back and signaled that it was functioning normally we were relieved.
Once v got down we had some bananas and started moving towards the top by the other route.
There was some flaw in our planning, we had decided to have food after finishing the trek. It didn’t take us much time to realize our fault. Ours tummy was crying out loudly.
We finally made it to the top. The scene on the top was completely different. The strong wind was making us believe that even we could fly..
The sound of the wind was as if it was the mixture of thousands of voices ….but still smooth.
After spending some good amount of time we finally decided to descend. It was around 4:30 when v got down. We ate some stuff and then got on the back of bikes. The weather was such a relief, it was slightly drizzling, cool air and a calm surrounding.
We decided to visit “Venkataramana” temple on the outskirts of Magadi.
We realiased that the temple has some historic value as well. The temple was renovated by “Chelas” 1000 years ago.
It was around 7:30 pm when we came to KHB colony.
DJ had a flat tyre(thankfully we were in city limits then), after some search we got the patch done.
We had a fantastic dinner and a good chit chat in Parkview in Vijaynagar…..Great end to an equally great day!!!
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