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So, yet another adventure club outing it was. We (the Ness Roadies gang) – a total of 41 people this time, went white water rafting to Kundalika river, near Kolhad, on the Mumbai – Pune NH 4.
It was awesome – especially the grade 4 rapids that we crossed. It rained for almost 50 minutes on the whole 2.5 hours spent in, and on the water. We got to swim in the river too – non swimmers included – in 30 ft deep water.
Nice way to spend a saturday.
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My company was toying with the idea of an adventure club. The MDC guys put up a meeting of the ones interested, sometime after evening tea on Tuesday, and unanimously, everyone (around 25) agreed to go for a trek to Lohagadh, on the Saturday. (Fastest decision AFAIK.) Around 12 finally decided they were up for it.
So this last Saturday, 14 of us went down to Lohagadh.
I am about to write down incidents that I remember, in random order, instead of narrating the whole adventure trip.
- Had to get up at an ungodly hour – 3:30 am – to get ready and reach dadar station by 5 am.
- The two hours of the train journey were spent in snacking or sleeping.
- Lonavla has a pleasant paced life. Not too early, not too late.
- 9, including the driver, were stuffed in a 6 seater.
- 6, including the driver, were stuffed in a 3 seater (that too, with me and another fellow like me in the rear seat)
- Did not get tired of walking, for a change. (Yay!)
- Never heard an HR person swear like that before. Was it fun!!!
- Nimbu pani never tasted sweeter. (Had it halfway up the hill)
- Ate under a tree, then slept under it – like a nomadic tribe.
- A *beep* monkey snatched my bag of chocolates and tore away at the bars, and gems, and ate them all.
- The same species also grabbed hold of one of the bags and tore it open to get hold of some mangoes and bananas.
- While sitting on a rock, and looking at a sunny sky, I heard some thunder, turned around to see thick black clouds.
- People started packing and running back. Windcheaters were out, cameras and mobile phones in.
- Wind + rains slapped us. Left, right and center. (Some blame the morning abuses to shivaji and his horse by one of the roadies to be the cause of the wrath)
- Laughed, shivered, got scared, and felt happy – all at the same time.
- Missed someone.
- One of the roadies kept harassing all animals he came across after the attack by the monkey – on the bag he was holding. Crabs, dogs, red velvety bugs/insects, earthworms – all had to face his wrath.
- Some of us enjoyed the quiet serene atmosphere, and took it all in.
- Some started behaving in abnormal ways.
- Some couldn’t help not calling Mr President, Mr President.
- Some got real tired and swore and cussed out loud.
- Some became nostalgic about their past treks to the same place.
- The infamous dog followed / showed us the way back down when it was pouring heavily.
- Sat down in a carrier truck
- Saw one of the roadies merrily clickety click away random photos – some of them came out really well.
- Laughed our backsides off when watching the photos on a projected screen – when handpicking photos to be sent to the banglore and mumbai centers. Some photos got really appreciated. Especially the ones just before it started raining.
All in all, was a helluva good one.