A journey, the Beginning.

Few spectacular snaps of the place and nothing else to do during weekend forced us to visit the place right away. The place's name was 'skandagiri' around 60 kms from Bangalore. with almost no research about the place , we found ourselves( me , raghu and raghumama. WOW! doesn't it seem like 'Ed,Edd and Eddy') heading towards the place early morning. well finally found the place after lil confusion. Parked the car at the bottom of the hill, we started climbing the hill (in the picture). we refrained from using the path which easily would have taken us to the top of the hill to get xtra thrill while climbing. Little did we knew then what was in store for us. One local boy showed us another way from which we can reach the top. being followed by a cow herd (in search of grass on the hill) with fear one of the cows might hit us with it's horn we started climbing fast. after few minutes, cows found us resting on a boulder. after posing for few snaps, cows marched forward while we were still resting. it was great that we planned to carry a 2 litre water bottle. convincing each other that the peak is very near (oh! what a mistake) we again started climbing. after few minutes we were desperately searching for a big boulder where we can rest. when saw a big boulder under tree shade, it was no less than a treasure for us. the cows are no where to be seen now. earlier, we had light breakfast and carried some snacks (what a great idea it was), thinking we would come back within couple of hours and have lunch. ate some chips and water while we rested(man did we got addicted to rest?) there. no way was seen further. did we reached the top? not yet. had to walk over the boulder to find further path. path? there was no path. we had to make one. By this time we had forgot we carried 5.1 MP camera with us. so no snaps there. little further, we saw few people there .they showed us the way to reach the top that happened to be easy???!! to reach the top. by the way the scenic view from there and fresh wind encouraged us to move further. after climbing couple of boulders and a lil walk through bunch of bushes, we saw what looked like main entrance of some fort. now we realised we had to take some snaps.with out any major incidents, we finally reached the top where we found a temple(snap). forgot to mention one interesting thing. one of the 'cowboys' there had his eyes on water which raghumama was carrying. he convinced raghumama that there is water reservoir(pushkarane) on the top. after repeated search, we did not find that pushkarane. ate the snacks , drank rest of the water we had and slept for a while under the shade available there.

coming up next...... raghu refuses to climb down . raghumama is lost!!. bushcrafting!!!!. we become explorers. the final run.and more........................