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Yedakumeri Trek
It has been one of my resolutions for the year to do atleast one trip every month and fortunately i have been able to achieve this untill now, and this months it was Yedakumeri - also popularly known as "The Green route" along the Bangalore-Mangalore Railway Track. This trek started off as a part of the usual AMC trekking group( 8 of us ), but after the Bandipur trip's success i invited the Applibase team and other friends to join us to the trek. I was actually expecting most of those who showed intrest initially, to drop off later once they realise the difficult level of the trek, but i was terribly wrong, soon the number of people joining the group increased!!. The situation got out of hand as the date of journey approached and i started rejecting all the new comers, still ended up with a huge group of 35 people with more then 15 first-time trekkers. Though i was skeptical of the first-timers enjoying the trek i was sure they will enjoy each others company, and since i knew there were escape routes at many places i decided to go ahead with the team.After three weeks of preparation ( booking bus, sending numerous mails and arranging for mats and sleeping bags for the rest of the team ) we finally did the trek this weekdend ( 26th and 27th of March ).

In two days of trek we covered 18(first day) + 18(second day )KM by foot along the Mangalore-Bangalore railway track near sakleshpura, which has been abandoned for the last 10 Years for various reasons ( mostly political ). The trek was very exhausting and most of the first-timers decided to quit after the first day itself. But a smaller team of 19 members continued with the earlier plan and completed the trek on the second day. jace, haas, mat_attack and Anant have all written about their experience in their blogs. For the details of the trip please refer to their blogs.

Photos from the first day:













Photos from the Second day:





















I had a great weekend, this trek was different from all my previous treks, looking forward to do more of these kinds of treks as well. I definitly plan to repeat the route in the monsoon, the western ghtas should be a sight to the eyes in Monsoons. Now iam planning to do the KumarParvata trek next month, hope that will be as much fun as this was. I would like to thank the whole group for co-operating and helping to make the trip a success.

Update: Sidharth has written about a small scary incident that occured during the trek here