This trek happened in our fourth year of college ( 2012) while we were pondering places to visit during Saarang. We had initially decided to visit the Himalayas but ended up voting against it which left surya in a fit of anger... ( We had to go and convince him later to come by putting a lot of senti :P)... After a barrage of mails, where usually nothing productive happens, a group of 8 of us left for Coorg. To those unknown, coorg is a famous trekking place located in Karnataka and is also well known for its coffee ( which Surya bought for 4 kgs.!!).. So we left on the 21st of January in the night...
We played wolf throughout the entire journey which resulted in passengers and the TTR threatening to push us out of the compartment.. Having reached mysore on 22nd, we took a bus to Madikeri, the capital of Coorg district and booked a room in Hotel Hilltop, where we just slept and played a game of cards that day...
Day 2 : The Thala cauvery and Abbey falls trip
Thala cauvery near madikeri is the place where the river cauvery takes birth... Thala cauvery is situated on a hilltop where one side of it is the kerala side of the hill and the other is the Karnataka side of the hill.
After a brief stint of scenery and photoshoot we ventured for a short trek in a the hills around thalacauvery.
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| Surya with his antics :P |
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| Our way to the trek as captured by Manda (AKA Aravind) |
After a short trek, which resulted in many of us being very tired, we fell asleep in the car. In the evening we visited the Abbey falls.. It is supposed to be very ferocious in the monsoon times.. but was a good visiting place nevertheless..
Day 3 : The thadiyandamol trek
This was the day we had gone to coorg for.. Tadiyandamol mens the highest peak in the local Kodave language. At a ht of 1740 m, Thadiyandamol is the second highest peak in Karnataka. It took us half the day to reach the top and the remaining half to scale it down. At the end of the end of the day we did indeed manage to scale the mountain top albeit with a lot of curses... Once we reached the top, the temperature was nowhere as close to that on the ground... It was extremely breezy and cool and we were relishing the succes of having scaled such a hilltop. After reaching the hotel, we eat as if there was no tomorrow and slept the enitre next day..... Its a trip i would remember forever. ...
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| A game of wolf at 1740 m.. |
