Chakram Trek Report Online Submission

Disclaimer:

The form below is a feedback form to fill in and record important information pertaining to any trek which you did recently. Ideally it is meant for the Leaders. However if you wish to provide information by filling up the form you are free to do so. It is my personal attempt to automate the form filling process so that information recording happens easier for the leaders.

This form is designed and utilized by Chakram Hikers (Mulund). So, although you will receive an email, This system is not affiliated to Chakram Hikers in any ways currently and will be taken to the Chakram Website only after a thorough testing procedure.

If you have any comments/Suggestions, please feel free to share it with me.

Thanks

Ameya Gokhale

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Chakram Trek Report Online Submission

Disclaimer:

The form below is a feedback form to fill in and record important information pertaining to any trek which you did recently. Ideally it is meant for the Leaders. However if you wish to provide information by filling up the form you are free to do so. It is my personal attempt to automate the form filling process so that information recording happens easier for the leaders.

This form is designed and utilized by Chakram Hikers (Mulund). So, although you will receive an email, This system is not affiliated to Chakram Hikers in any ways currently and will be taken to the Chakram Website only after a thorough testing procedure.

If you have any comments/Suggestions, please feel free to share it with me.

Thanks

Ameya Gokhale

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Contact Me..!

Its fairly easy to get in touch with me..

In case you happen to be active on any of the social networking sites, you can very easily have a look at my profile. 

Facebook

LINKED IN

You can also email me at the following email Address:

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Dhak Bahiri



(L-R) Me, Anuj Katkar, Zahir Shaikh, Aniket Choudhary

 Those were some really great days. On my personal front, I had got a new job at Mobile2Win - giving me a source of income(which was the most wanted at that time to keep my trekking go on smoothly). On the other hand, we had formed a small group of like minded people who liked trekking insanely - and on every weekend. Like many other things, camera was also a luxury item for most of us, in those non-digital days. Aniket was the one to have a film camera who took pictures while we trekked. His camera was particularly known to produce some wonderfull results.

I had heard about Dhak Bahiri from a friend of mine who had informed me that "It was to be climbed using an old Creeper". 

Our like mindedness worked together and we started off to Karjat station. An Auto was hired which dropped us to Sandshi Village. In those days, my networking skills  in this field were also not very efficient and all I knew about this place was based on the book by Harish Kapadia.


Hiring a guide(which now we do for almost every new trek) was a completely alien concept. Mainly because we did not know if they would really come and also how much money would they charge. After enquiring the route locally, we started off. The trek towards the first platue is very tiring and added to that -humidity was burning us off. After a long trek of almost 3 hours, we managed to reach the platue where the forest appeared inviting. It took some time to search for the correct route and reach the wall. The route on the wall is through a Nala(stream). This route will take us to the base of the cave where one needs to do  all the acrobatics. Half of us decided that they wont be climbing the Creeper( which was by then replaced with a bamboo - which appeared deadly..!).


Finally we managed to do this task and reached the Cave. The cave is a little eerie with the so called "sacrifices" happening inside. Blood all over and villagers offering these (chicken)sacrifices to God. The return journey was equally tiring and it took us very late to reach the base village. 2 of us were far behind and we were in a little anxiety untill we saw them coming towards the village.


Pictures: Special Thanks to Aniket for the Photos and the associated pains of developing the roll and scanning it..!.


Participants: Ameya Gokhale, Prasad Sawant, Aniket Choudhary, Anuj Katkar, Zahir Shaikh, Vikram Bhalerao, Prakash(I hope I am right with this name).



Other Pictures of this trek are displayed below.

Vikram Bhalerao

Aniket @ water tank inside the cave

Bahiri Cave Acrobatics

Kalakrai Pinnacle

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Dhak Bahiri



(L-R) Me, Anuj Katkar, Zahir Shaikh, Aniket Choudhary

 Those were some really great days. On my personal front, I had got a new job at Mobile2Win - giving me a source of income(which was the most wanted at that time to keep my trekking go on smoothly). On the other hand, we had formed a small group of like minded people who liked trekking insanely - and on every weekend. Like many other things, camera was also a luxury item for most of us, in those non-digital days. Aniket was the one to have a film camera who took pictures while we trekked. His camera was particularly known to produce some wonderfull results.

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