Hi friends,
Do you want to run over the stones, jump through the bushes
and thorns, jump over the rocks, climb the mountain and visit a fort built by
robbers before centuries???... What you say, “yes” or “no”???
As you say yes, everyone will say yes… because everyone wants
their life to be adventurous…
But no one will ask for such an adventure. But few are
little different like me. I googled for it... I googled “trekking near Chennai”…
I found “Chennai Trekking Club (CTC)”. Members of CTC are people, who want
adventure, who like outdoor activities. I
registered in it. Every weekend; organizers in CTC will organize some events
like trekking, cycling, running, plantation, etc. Any members of CTC can
register and take part in it. Importantly, CTC is non-profitable organization.
So, what is there after registering…? Adventures!!!
I started my adventures with Venkatagiri hills in AP, India.
And here is the story of my first trek…
Mission
Venkatagiri: Conquering of old robber’s fort!!!
The story of 19 CTCians…
If I just say “they went and conquered it”, then the story
won’t be interesting… So, let’s make it interesting now… So, ready for the
story… Ya, here it is…
On sep 7th 2012 Midnight, 19 trekkers under team
Emperors went to capture the old robber’s fort at venkatagiri hill on three
fighter planes namely, Safari-0001, Ikon and Indica started from Chennai Tidal
park, CMBT and Guindy.
But conquering a fort without some hurdles won’t be possible
right???... ya they started facing problems since they started. At first,
the Flight safari-0001’s Head light didn’t work!!! But our pilot Bala managed
to ride without headlight.
The next big hurdle aroused in few minute since they started
the fighter planes. They faced heavy rain. So, they parked those fighters under
a bridge to repack the goods safely and to share the loads properly in all
there fighter plane to product it from rain… And they started the journey again,
But…………
Second Fighter IKON’s viper went off!!!... So another pilot
Raghu had to manage without viper in that heavy rain. So, he followed the
safari-0001 slowly. Then and there, our co-pilot Arul went out through the
windows and dried the water as a viper (:P) while flying high.
Then two, three hours went peacefully. Even many went to
sleep… Around 5 AM in the Saturday morning, our third fighter Indica hit the
road side pavement and got a flat tire. So, five of our warriors tried repair
it. So, they took the spare tire out and placed it near the back tire and
removed the front tire which got flat.
Wait wait!!! Do you want some twist??? Ok! Within
removing the front tire, our five warriors missed (lost) the spare tire… Dear
Readers, I’m not making this twist on my own in the story… really they missed
it… Believe me Pls!!! But I seriously feel that those old robbers sent these
hurdles… what do you think???... Ok ok , back to the story… So they waited till
the dawn and searched for it, but in vain. Hard decision was made to leave
warriors Amrita and Tirthank, they bid adieu to them and carried with our
journey. (Journey would have been better with you two frnds… Sry… we too missed
you in this trek)
Then the 7 seater fighter became 11 seater safari-0001 and 5
seater fighter IKON became 6-seater…
After an hour or two, they reached venkatagiri… Captain Bala
and Ravi went to local police station to warn everyone not to help those
robbers to escape before they capture their fort…
Then they went near to the base of the hill and parked the
fighter in the near field and started walking. Pilots early had a plan to land
the fighter planes right in the peak, but robbers may escape on seeing the
fighter planes. So, they parked in the base and started walking to the robber’s
fort…
On the way to the fort, they took tasty poli for lunch!!!
And then with captain bala as the lead and
Ravi as the sweep, they entered old robber’s fort by 4pm in the evening… But L … There were no robbers…
I think, somehow they got information that the CTCians are
coming to capture the fort… They evacuated their fort…
But our commando Raja took the knife out of his bag to slice
the heads of those robbers. So, how can he keep the knife back into the bag
without slicing something??? So, he sliced the heads of carrot, potatoes,
tomatoes, onions… and made an awesome biriyani!!! With that biriyani our 17
warriors went to sleep…
Next day beings with the temperature less than 16 degree and
wind with the speed around 100km/hr… Since it was like, fan was running at full
speed and AC was at 16 degree… our 17 warriors slept tight inside the blanket
and tent. But, our pilot woke up all of them with a three letter word… any
guess, what that word is???...No! He just said “TEA!!!”… With that everyone
woke up to drink tea. But our pilot lied to wake up all, there were no tea!! …
Then warrior explored the fort and captured it in their
memories and cams!!! Then our Bala, Ravi and Arul made wonderful tea and
breakfast. Then they started home from the peak…
Interesting, on the way back they saw 5 local guys and 2
outsiders climbing up… Our Ravi, Raja and few helped the local guys with water…
Then they had rusk for lunch and reached back the base…
But they lost their way from the base to village. So, they
explored the base and found our way back to village.
Those nice villagers thought that our bala & ravi with
their team, conquered and defeated those robbers. So, they helped the team to
take bath at their pump. Poor villagers, they didn’t know that
our team didn’t even see a single robber there.
Then they loaded back in to the flights. But our pilot had
parked the fighter safari safely in a pit. So, they struggled and with the help
of the villagers, they lifted the fighter back from the pit.
Then they came to know that local guys, who were all helped
by our caption Ravi and Raja are robbers. They robbed the 2 outsiders, who were
climbing up when our CTCian’s climbing down. And one of the Warriors Murali
captured those robbers in his cam. But, they knew it only after reaching back
Chennai. So, they were not able
to help them at that time.
Then, our 17 trekkers left the ventakagiri and reached back
Chennai on Sunday night.
Unforgettable Moments....
Tent...
Campfire...
Nature...
Enjoyment...
Sunrise...
Climbing...
Fort...
Me...
From me,
I enjoyed a lot... Though everyone was unknown to me until
Friday midnight, I feel like, I spent two days with my cousins and close
friends... These adventurous trips are dreams for me, since my childhood... "Superb
Place, Awesome people, fabulous trip, a winning team.", what else is needed for an adventurous
trip...since we loaded bags in the car near the tidal park, everything was
adventurous until we unloaded the bag from car back in CMBT...
Unforgettable weekend and my first trekking... Thanks all...It was really
awesome… Looking forward for many more such an adventures treks!
By one among those 17,
ALAGAPPAN…
Oct 2011, I started my career with android, and it is been one and half
years. For Last one year, it is been a dream for me to open developer account
in GOOGLE PLAY. But days passed in search/in learning for new idea, concept and
bla bla. Now, I can't control my interest to enter into Google Play as a
developer, so I planned to publish something. I went through my pass-time work
in android; I had code, which I wrote to transfer text in Bluetooth. Of-course,
this is school days program. But my interest asked me to give a touch to it and
released it in the Google Play. So, I did the same...
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