Friday evening and I had no plans for the weekend. Just when I was running out of options on what to do, I got a message “I’m planning to hike Kabbaludurga again. Do you want to join?”. This was about…
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“Are you sure this is the hill we are supposed to climb?”, those were the first words uttered by a friend when we approached Kabbaldurga. “Let’s climb a smaller one instead. This one is huge.”, quipped another one. Though not…
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While searching for an old file on my hard disk landed me in to a folder which I had thought lost it completely. It was of the photos taken during my trek in Sharavathi valley back in Feb 2008, which…
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When you travel south of Bangalore on Kanakapura road for 40 odd kilometers, you get to see plenty of small hillocks scattered all over. I went on a day trip way back in 2007 to one such hillock, which is…
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The story dates back to Aug 2006, when I came across some nice photos of this small hillock Achalu betta (or Achchalu) on DKM’s blog. Collected information from DKM on how to reach the place & four of us started…
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Beginning of the story – Beginning & Bheemeshwara Sampath & Nayana poured a bucketful of water on our hopes of taking a quick nap. They urged us to start immediately. Time was slipping by. It was already 5PM, the race…
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I went on a short trek to Skandagiri near Chikkaballapur last weekend. Here is a photo from there. Details to follow soon…
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Last weekend I had been to Shivagange, which is around 60 kilometers from Bangalore. Started from Bangalore at around 7 AM on Saturday in two bikes – myself and my colleague Vineet. There are two ways to reach the place…
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