Basic Mountaineering Course - Part 1
I thought I should share my(our) experiences of BMC with friends.
But u know it is quite a difficult task to write a month packed with fun, pain, excitement and expectation in few sentences.
Ok, let me give a shot at it.
The idea of doing BMC was in our(SRG) mind from a long time.
We decided to do it in October finally. Kaddi and Late dropped out due to personal reasons.
I and Othla were the one in the field.
Sometime during mid August we started with our preparation, jogging, exercise, reading blogs etc etc.
Ate Anand’s head a couple of times, even my friend Pravin wasn’t spared.
Anand was very encouraging; I should say he was the one who encouraged us the most.
We left for Delhi on 29th of Sept. The journey started in style. Our Spicejet flight was cancelled in the last moment. I troubled Othla who was in
the middle of his TOEFL test by calling him a couple of times. It was already 10 am then. We decided to go by 12:30 spicejet plane.
The way me and Othla reached airport, I think we would never forget that.(Thanks Late for dropping me in-time.)
We hadn’t booked our tickets from Delhi to Manali in advance, so went to ISBT, got a seat in 7:30 bus to Manali.
It was an ordinary, dagda Himachal transport bus. We could hardly sleep during the whole journey. Our butt, back and neck were crying for some good sleep.
Finally reached Manali at 11 in the morning, the next day.
We had to share the Dorm with 7 others.
It was a good mix of guys, from KA, HP, MH, Ladakh, GJ.
Some people came b’cos mountaineering is their passion, some because it is their bread and butter and some because they were sent by NCC.
Had our first fall-in at 8:30pm. Jagadev sir briefed us about the discipline we had to adhere to. We were also warned not to waggle our tails seeing the beautiful girls who had come for a trek.
First day: got up at 5:30, had PT at 6. Warmup exercise, which was enuf to leave us panting for breath. They took us for a run in the adjacent jungle. I enjoyed the run. After breakfast finished some official formalities; had a visit to museum.
Second day: During fall-in it was raining heavily, but instructors did not show any mercy. The run increased to 5km.
It was our first day of rock craft. The field area is very nice. Good mix of boulders, rocks in here.
For the first few days we had jogging in the morning followed by exercises and then Rock craft.
Evening it used to be “Obstacles”
If u have ever done NCC you would know what it means!!We would celebrate if on some days the Obstacles were cancelled.
We were taken to Hadimba and Sharavari temples to prepare us both mentally and physically for the treks with heavy loads.
We were given a day off to shop gloves, dry fruits etc etc required for high altitude camping.
We went to Vasistha on that day and relaxed there lying in the hot water springs.
The place is very calm and spiritual, there are Sadhus in the temple premises who can give u instant Moksha if u wish to.
But u know it is quite a difficult task to write a month packed with fun, pain, excitement and expectation in few sentences.
Ok, let me give a shot at it.
The idea of doing BMC was in our(SRG) mind from a long time.
We decided to do it in October finally. Kaddi and Late dropped out due to personal reasons.
I and Othla were the one in the field.
Sometime during mid August we started with our preparation, jogging, exercise, reading blogs etc etc.
Ate Anand’s head a couple of times, even my friend Pravin wasn’t spared.
Anand was very encouraging; I should say he was the one who encouraged us the most.
We left for Delhi on 29th of Sept. The journey started in style. Our Spicejet flight was cancelled in the last moment. I troubled Othla who was in
the middle of his TOEFL test by calling him a couple of times. It was already 10 am then. We decided to go by 12:30 spicejet plane.
The way me and Othla reached airport, I think we would never forget that.(Thanks Late for dropping me in-time.)
We hadn’t booked our tickets from Delhi to Manali in advance, so went to ISBT, got a seat in 7:30 bus to Manali.
It was an ordinary, dagda Himachal transport bus. We could hardly sleep during the whole journey. Our butt, back and neck were crying for some good sleep.
Finally reached Manali at 11 in the morning, the next day.
We had to share the Dorm with 7 others.
It was a good mix of guys, from KA, HP, MH, Ladakh, GJ.
Some people came b’cos mountaineering is their passion, some because it is their bread and butter and some because they were sent by NCC.
Had our first fall-in at 8:30pm. Jagadev sir briefed us about the discipline we had to adhere to. We were also warned not to waggle our tails seeing the beautiful girls who had come for a trek.
First day: got up at 5:30, had PT at 6. Warmup exercise, which was enuf to leave us panting for breath. They took us for a run in the adjacent jungle. I enjoyed the run. After breakfast finished some official formalities; had a visit to museum.
Second day: During fall-in it was raining heavily, but instructors did not show any mercy. The run increased to 5km.
It was our first day of rock craft. The field area is very nice. Good mix of boulders, rocks in here.
For the first few days we had jogging in the morning followed by exercises and then Rock craft.
Evening it used to be “Obstacles”
If u have ever done NCC you would know what it means!!We would celebrate if on some days the Obstacles were cancelled.
We were taken to Hadimba and Sharavari temples to prepare us both mentally and physically for the treks with heavy loads.
We were given a day off to shop gloves, dry fruits etc etc required for high altitude camping.
We went to Vasistha on that day and relaxed there lying in the hot water springs.
The place is very calm and spiritual, there are Sadhus in the temple premises who can give u instant Moksha if u wish to.
(contd...)
posted by pK at 12:08 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Guys, Pakya is a bindass guy and i was waiting desperatly to hear his experience...... i want pakya to visit mor and more places and come up with more stuff... long live pakYa.... :-)
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