Kulang Garh

Where the year 2018 is ending, my traveling is growing rapidly. I am away from the Himalayas for the last 21 days, and there is no such day when I haven't missed the mountains. Now the entire Himalaya is covered with white snow sheet and where I live in Himachal, there is 3 ft. of snow fallen and temperature has been reduced to -5 degree. I left Himachal on 05th December and has been dreaming to going back there since then.

Solang valley covered with fresh snowfall

Day 01: (Solang-Manali-Delhi)
I work with "The Hell Race", My job is to find new trails and make the route for trail running events. This time, I went to the Sahadary mountain range this time. I left Solang at 5 pm and got the bus from Manali at 6 p.m. The bus rushed to Delhi's capital "Delhi" at 5 o'clock, from where I reached at Nizzamuddin railway station, from there I got 10am train to Mumbai.

The Indian Train

Missal Pao

Day 02: (Delhi-Nashik-Sandy)
The train reached Nashik at 6 am, from where I reached Igatpuri by another train. I got off the bus from Igatpuri, took a sharing taxis from Ghoti village and reached Vanshudra, from where the auto took me to Shandy, where I met Raghu, who has helped me to create a rough loop of 75 km. I spent the night in the Waki village. Thus, in the last 36 hours I have reached at 90 meter from 2450m, even the temperature changed very fast for me from -2 degrees to 34 degrees. I was afraid that this change should affect my body, but luckily nothing like that happened.

Krishnavanti river

Day 03: (Sandy-Kalsubai Peak-Ghatghar)
The next morning, after waiting for the guide, it was 11 o'clock when we started our trek and trekked till 9 pm. My guides whose name is Laxman. With him I first crossed Penshet and Bari village. The highest peak in Maharashtra is Kalsubai, whose height is 1649 meters from the sea level, and today I am the going to climb this mountain peak. This is first time when I am climbing any mountain instead of Himalaya. The distance of Kalsubari Peak is 2.4 km from Bari village. Which has a ascent of 840 meters, I took 75 minutes to cover this distance. Descending began after the Kalsubai, from where I reached the Udhadhaane village in the fast pace. So far the time was 3:35pm, Sunset was also going to happen, so we increase our speed.

Kalsubai Top

The most difficult trek in Maharashtra is "Alang-Madan-Kulang", it is so difficult because to climb all three mountains one should have to fixed the ropes. I did not go to the top of the mountain but after reaching the base of the three mountains, it became dark. Walking in the dark at 8pm in the night, we lost the way and reached such a place where there was no way. About 2 finally we reached at ghatghar village at my guide's home. I spent that night at my guide's home. Today we have trekked 36km with 1937 meter of ascent.

The tough trio trek "A-M-K"

Closer view

Day 04: (Ghatghar-Ratangarh-Sandy)
After just 6 hours of sleep we started our journey at 8am. I had to change my guide today because Laxman had no idea about the way where we were going today. So today my guide was Bharat. I reached Ratangad soon with Bharat. Here we did some rock climbing and start walking again. On the way, went to the temple of Ratana Devi. After going down we lost the way and after about an hour we had to take another route. We started running in the evening so that we could reach Sandy village faster. Arrived Shandy at 8 o'clock in the evening. I have covered about 75 km in 2 days, in which total ascent of about 3750 meters.

Rock Climbing at Ratangarh fort

Bhandardara dam

Day 05: (Sandy-Mumbai-Singhad)
It was very difficult day for me because my stomach got upset due to drinking dirty water. Frequent restlessness, I started to have fever, headache and vomiting. I'm also unable to walk but today I had to reach Singhgad in any case. In Singhgad, SRT Ultra is going to happens tomorrow in which I have to volunteer. I take medicine from the doctor and left the Sandy village at 12 noon to Singhad. With all the problems finally I reached Singhad at 10pm at night.

Khunta Peak can be seen in backdrop from Samrad village

Day 06: (Sinhagad)
Woke up the next morning at 8 o'clock, but my condition was so bad that I could not volunteer in the event. Most of the time I was in my tent. I was worried because after 2 days I was going to Ahmadnagar.

This is the states of my trek

The Poster for Deccan Ultra

The next part will soon come, till then stay with you.