Friday, February 02, 2007

Thadiyendamol

Peak-a-boo


Pooja (Mani's wife) minutes before she fell off the edge!..

The trip didn't get jinxed as i had feared in the previous post. But if you head up to the Thadiyendamol peak assuming that you'll find water in the forests close by you're fucked. Myself and Mani had to do go down half the way to fetch pails of water (for vodka, noodles/soup, plain consumption, in that order of priority). Should've listened to Aroon (http://www.arunwho.com/). He had asked us to fill water supplies on the way up...Anyways alls well that ends well (assuming that the nagging pain in my knee would go away in time!)..

Went with friends from college and some others they knew. The crowd had people that covered the entire gamut of the 'talking' spectrum...one extremely garrulous kind...one extremely silent kind...and others somewhere in between. Was good fun...Camped at the peak, ate, drank and made merry...Spoke late into the night...conversation strewn with 'profound' statements like "Hinduism is a way of life"(contributor - Gaurav, if you know him you'll also know that only alcohol can make him say things like this), "Evolution is bullshit. Someone should've created all these things" (contributor - Aroon, i know he'll say this even now)...

On the way back, Aroon helped the cause of future trekkers by making the huge boulder beside the trail to the stream, conspicously spell out (a little wrongly) the magic word "WATR". The meticulous Mani, in his blog (http://freevudu.blogspot.com/), as expected, has written a checklist for future Thadiyendamol visitors.

My camera ran out of batteries, so couldnt take too many pictures. Aroon has posted some pics he took here

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

nice pics machi.. sounds like you had solid fun. :-)

Kousik said...

Aha. We already knew about the lack of water at the peak so we came down to camp next to the huge boulder. It was a really awesome experience.

Did you happen to visit dodda Abbe falls that you can approach on your way back, taking a diversion to left before you reach the summer palace?

frissko said...

swami - yes da...good fun..

Kousik - yea, the space by the boulder looked like an ideal place to camp (but we were stuck to the idea of 'camping at the peak')...dint visit the falls..we knew there was some falls around but dint know where..dint do our homework before heading there...

Prerona said...

wow! nice snaps too ...

frissko said...

ricercar - thanks(on behalf of aroon i guess)..