Skandagiri (place above the clouds)

It was Thursday, was rearranging the mail box & suddenly saw an old mail (forward). Thought of doing some adventure & forwarded to friends, few brave guys (like me... of course) responded. As usual no plan is the best plan (my strategy for effective planning), Me, Kumar, Prabhakar, Ishwar & Chamnesh, packed some food, took a torch & few bed sheets, took our bikes (mine Honda Unicorn, Yamaha RX135 of Kumar & Ishwar's passion) & started from Bangalore towards NH7 at around 8:00pm.

It was totally drizzling all the way; it was my first long drive during night, so resisted the temptation of breezing ahead & just kept on following the reflector of Kumar & Ishwar till we reached kalavarahalli by 11:30pm. Parked bikes, took rest in front of Omkara Jyoti Ashram, hired a guide & started to trek by 12:00 midnight.

We didn’t even need a torch; moonlight getting reflected over the rocks was really awesome. Drizzling rain made it a lil complex but more rememberable trek. By 2:30 am we were at the top of the hill (1750 mts) & in the clouds, totally worn-out & badly in need of sleep. We couldn’t sleep outside b'coz of strong chill breezes, rain, fog & cold. Nothing was visible after couple of steps. Couldn’t even find dry woods to lit camp fire & had no tents & hence slept in the temple for around 2 & 1/2 hrs...
It was 5:30 AM, felt water falling over my head that made me wake up. Ohhhh boy, never experienced that coldness of whether & never want to experience also. We started climbing down by 9:00 am after some timepass (others we aramse coming up at that time). Came down taking the pics & climbing all possible rocks.

Climbed down the hill by 12:30PM, started riding back from Nature's architecture to manmade concreet jungle. This time, I couldn't resist the temptation of flying my unicorn & raced back to bangalore covering almost 45kms till hebbal in 30 mins & just another15 kms till Indiranagar in another 1hr. This clearly shows the significant change inside & outside the cities....

Came back to noisy, polluted yet breadearner city Bangalore by 3:00 pm on Sat...