Travelogue

Bhimashankar Trek 13.8.1994 4 friends, Suwas Darvekar, Salim Fidai, Hemant Patil and Ravi Patil were a group of crazy people, who were recently stung with a trekking bug. A small trek to Matheran was done before and with that experience, we thought of doing another trek. 13 th August 1994. It was a 3 day holiday on a trot 13 th being a Saturday, 14 th a Sunday and 15 th August being the Independence Day. So this 4 crazy people meet early in the morning at Dadar station to trek. Where to trek was not yet decided, but we were all packed for a good trek. Every one of us was carrying water, foodstuff, Torch and a rope. Of course we were carrying spare clothes. All this packed up well in a polythene bag because rains were anticipated. Since most of the treks are in the central railway segment, we boarded a train to Ambernath. We got down at Ambernath and were discussing about which trek to do. Suddenly I remembered that there is a Bhimashankar trek from Karjat. I expressed tha...

My First Century on Bicycle. Thank u Sunny and Saurabh for being accommodative. Really needed ur support for d first century. And all d team members were fabulous. Speed masters Sherwin n Kiran, ever enthusiastic Vinay n doc, very supportive Saurabh n Sunny and a speedster Pranaya on MTB. It was a night ride to Navapur beach, in Vasai, and the ride was done at night What helped me d most was d regular training of 50-60kms. That made riding a century easy. And keeping myself hydrated also added a lot, albeit I was a little dehydrated at d end of d ride. Chikki or energy bars made lovingly by Vidya also did a big trick. Especially d recovery from fatigue. What was important that v ate after some intervals   and also drank approxately 500ml of water for every hour riding on d bike. This is what is recommended. I was short by around a litre of water in d end as I had rode for 6 hours n had drank 2 litres of water. I m sure this info will help a lot of budding champs....

Bhimashankar Trek. Monsoon had started more than a month back but due to many commitments just was not able to go to any trek. Finally last Sunday I.e 19th July once d cycles were distributed to d tribal students, I felt relieved that my commitment is over. But there was one more commitment left. I was d organiser of our Silver jubilee function of our graduation from GDC. But this function was on 24th July Friday and 25th July Saturday. So now I had d 26th July Sunday for me. N I was desperate to go to the trek. Himsahyadri had arranged a trek to Bhimashankar. They had arranged a bus that was to start from Borivali national park on 25th Saturday at 11pm that would take us to d base camp at Kathevadi, Khandas. Since d second part of of our get together was supposed to end by 4pm at lonavala, i got the Deccan express and reached home by 8.30pm. After reaching home, got ready quickly. As usual I was browzing the WA messages and wife was shouting to get ready as v had to start ...