I got a thought that I should stake Durga, my niece to Savandurga shortly. In fact her name is Durga because my brother Deepak and sister-in-law Sherry met at Savandurga. She would love to see the place she's named after. I'm not sure if we'll be able to climb it ...if it's raining it's too risky climbing with a 7 year old. Let's see.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Overnight Stay Four
This was the Saturday Pink Floyd was performing in Bangalore. Kiran, one of Kiran's cousin and a friend of his cousin and of course I, reached well before sunset, gathered firewood and settled down in 'our' stone shelter. As the sky darkened, we could see city light glittering. From here we could see Magadi to our left, Bangalore straight ahead and Ramnagara to our right. I'm not sure if it was full moon day.
Around seven thirty, mist started blowing in and visibility was restricted to about 20-25 meters. We were sitting looking towards Bangalore and Kiran was talking about some ghosts and stuff.... "Sidda, look to your right there's really something coming towards us" When I looked I could see a figure coming towards us through the mist! As it came closer, I realized it was a man. Kiran was telling see if it's a ghost in the form of a man. I told him that to my knowledge ghosts prefer to take woman's form in white saree. Still Kiran was little scared, I'm not sure about the other two guys. The ghost turned out to be a man in early twenties, drunk and looking miserable. He came straight to us. I asked what he was doing here and if he had company and he replied back that his friends left him and went away. He asked if he could go down to the village but we told not to take risk climbing down in the darkness. The 'ghost' hung around close by.
Pink Floyd show, was being live on Vividh Bharati and my pocket radio was playing... the sound quality was not great but still we enjoyed it. We saw a sky-shot... pink and white sparkles and more blue-green, white-yellow. We thought this must at the rock show but the next day we found out that there was no such fire-show. We had dinner pretty early, pitched the tent (a mosquito net) and slept off early.
The 'ghost' woke up pretty early and took off at first light.
We went to the Basava Mantapa stayed there for sometime and then...
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Around seven thirty, mist started blowing in and visibility was restricted to about 20-25 meters. We were sitting looking towards Bangalore and Kiran was talking about some ghosts and stuff.... "Sidda, look to your right there's really something coming towards us" When I looked I could see a figure coming towards us through the mist! As it came closer, I realized it was a man. Kiran was telling see if it's a ghost in the form of a man. I told him that to my knowledge ghosts prefer to take woman's form in white saree. Still Kiran was little scared, I'm not sure about the other two guys. The ghost turned out to be a man in early twenties, drunk and looking miserable. He came straight to us. I asked what he was doing here and if he had company and he replied back that his friends left him and went away. He asked if he could go down to the village but we told not to take risk climbing down in the darkness. The 'ghost' hung around close by.
Pink Floyd show, was being live on Vividh Bharati and my pocket radio was playing... the sound quality was not great but still we enjoyed it. We saw a sky-shot... pink and white sparkles and more blue-green, white-yellow. We thought this must at the rock show but the next day we found out that there was no such fire-show. We had dinner pretty early, pitched the tent (a mosquito net) and slept off early.
The 'ghost' woke up pretty early and took off at first light.
We went to the Basava Mantapa stayed there for sometime and then............
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Dogs company
Somehow dogs at Savandurga seem to have a passion for climbing...
...when I went with Rajesh. We explored the smaller hill the evening before, stayed overnight in the temple below and morning we climbed.
This was one of the best scenes I saw on Savandurga. The clouds hung at this level for about 30 minutes or so. The dog sat there seriously watching the clouds.
These two gave us good company all the way up. They would stray away from us exploring the surroundings. For a moment it looked as though both would come down crashing when the puppy stopped to turn back and the big fellow bumped into the puppy's back.
...and finally had breakfast with us on the top. The little fellow was very hungry and would come back for more food.
This is on the Basava Hill, Kiran, Basu, Kiran, one of Kiran's engineering classmate and Rohin. My first climb after my injury to my left femur, I was extremely cautious during this climb.
...Basu and Rohin. This dog was a serious kind and he would never stray away from us.
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...when I went with Rajesh. We explored the smaller hill the evening before, stayed overnight in the temple below and morning we climbed.
This was one of the best scenes I saw on Savandurga. The clouds hung at this level for about 30 minutes or so. The dog sat there seriously watching the clouds.These two gave us good company all the way up. They would stray away from us exploring the surroundings. For a moment it looked as though both would come down crashing when the puppy stopped to turn back and the big fellow bumped into the puppy's back.
...and finally had breakfast with us on the top. The little fellow was very hungry and would come back for more food.This is on the Basava Hill, Kiran, Basu, Kiran, one of Kiran's engineering classmate and Rohin. My first climb after my injury to my left femur, I was extremely cautious during this climb.
...Basu and Rohin. This dog was a serious kind and he would never stray away from us..........
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Overnight stay Two
That's was my second camping trip on the top. For the others it was very the first time.
Dipi, Dad, Ravi Uncle, Kaalu, Ajay, Nagesh, Praveen and Shankar.
We had our of chapati and avarekalu palya sitting around a bonfire. The wood and fire was fun to watch, the breeze made the flame look as though a dragon was spitting fire. It was warm and we slept out in the open, it rained lightly for 10 minutes, bringing out the heat from inside the rock. Most of us did not sleep well after that.
Morning we went up to the Basava Mantapa and as the sun came up...
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Dipi, Dad, Ravi Uncle, Kaalu, Ajay, Nagesh, Praveen and Shankar.We had our of chapati and avarekalu palya sitting around a bonfire. The wood and fire was fun to watch, the breeze made the flame look as though a dragon was spitting fire. It was warm and we slept out in the open, it rained lightly for 10 minutes, bringing out the heat from inside the rock. Most of us did not sleep well after that.
Morning we went up to the Basava Mantapa and as the sun came up...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Adventurous descent
That's the very time we reached the summit... Gulli and I. The picture was shot by our guide.
If you look behind us, the rock just plunges down, it's very steep. We went down that way, against our guide's advice, mostly on our hands, bottoms and feet... trying to get the maximum contact with the rock surface. It was a crazy thing we did. We were relieved to be back on somewhat level surface.
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If you look behind us, the rock just plunges down, it's very steep. We went down that way, against our guide's advice, mostly on our hands, bottoms and feet... trying to get the maximum contact with the rock surface. It was a crazy thing we did. We were relieved to be back on somewhat level surface.
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Jai Hind!!!
Sometime 1998...
Dad, Kaalu, Murali, Praveen and Nagesh busy having breakfast atop Savandurga. That was during Dad's second and last overnight stay on Savandurga. Four years later he passed away.
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Dad, Kaalu, Murali, Praveen and Nagesh busy having breakfast atop Savandurga. That was during Dad's second and last overnight stay on Savandurga. Four years later he passed away..........
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