Target reached!!!!

Plan was to get up by 4 AM and start. but , started with bad news. No WATER. by the time water started to come and we start our rest of the journey , we had delay of around 2 hours already . i was the last one to leave after being blasted by Nitin :D . next stop @ police check post where we had to buy 'ticket' to continue rest of the trekking which was very near from that place. next few minutes of trek was comparitively easier . cool breeze all around and with that kinda climate around u never will get tired. we decided to have breakfast , dry 'avalakki'. ( yummy , one of the best ever breakfast so far ).
we saw a huge peak to climb . assuming at the end we will find our destination , 'peak of kumaraparvatha', we started with great enthu. by now both manjus started exhausting . they were deciding a pont from where they want to get back to bhatra mane . we ecountered a small mantap there . that was the place where both manjus decided no more furthur will they walk . we were 8 now. we got information from people climbing down that peak is still very far. just a thought flashed in our mind whether we should continue or go back . we decided to continue. there was no jungle/forest we encountered since morning. all we saw was few green/dry grasses all around. standing at the edge of one of the cliffs we had a photo session . from there we saw a peak . we decided that's the 'one' . by the time we reached there everyone was completely exhausted, but all were happy to reach there . but that was only for a moment . vinnyk said thatz not the peak . from there we were seeing one more peak seemed miles away from us. none had the courage to say let's continue while being completely exhausted. some how we were not ready to go back from here. we decided to continue and not stop till we reach the 'kp's' peak.

we had to walk through dense jungle again , some time the path was just next to cliff , one wrong step then 'bye bye'. at one place in the jungle , we stopped had some refreshment ( glucose powder and some juice vinnyk had got). once the forest ended , we had to climb a rock which was inclined . after that we were seeing the peak . five minutes later we were at the peak . on top 'kumaraparvatha'. Highest peak in karanataka ( correct me if i am wrong ). guess what we were getting full signal there . call dear ones ;) from there. once again snap session on the top. there was a small temple made of stones and there is a belief that of u build a peak of stones

now we realised that we were hungry and started climbing down. nothing much happened while climbing down till bhatra mane exept we were extremely tired and found manjus missing ( we assumed they had reached bhatra mane ) . after a nice lunch and a nice sleep for few minutes under shades of coconut tree ;) , we were all set to return from there . Thanked 'bhatru' and started climbing down again , same route and less number of breaks we were at the foot of the hill in next 2 hours. measure my weight . reduced by 1.5 KG .

Had a nice bath @ the hotel and headed for temple . after having 'darshan' of 'lord subramanya ', we went to a hotel near by , had dinner. Buns. everyone was talking about that , a speical dish from mangalore . so we bought some freshly made buns to eat during our journey back to bangalore. ( of course no one ate it in bus , that was breakfast, lunch and evening snax for me, raghumama, kummi and Nitin ). Now we were heading to vinnyk's house from where we were to board bus for Bangalore. after a small night trek ;) ( from vinnyk's house to road ) , we boarded the bus which would take us to Bangalore .

Finally the dream vinnyk made us weave had come true. we came back from there with one more dream , climb the mountain again . this time from Madakeri side and get down from Kukke end. which is scheduled to come true somewhere around december 2006.