।। श्री आशापुरी देव्यै नमः ।।
this day that year.. निसणीची वाट - कुर्डूगड - लिंग्या धबधबा.. we had our time ☺️
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| लिंग्या धबधबा / धबधबे |
let's start with a few दिग्गज people 🫡 born on this day..
1895 - भारतरत्न 🎖️, आचार्य विनायक नरहरी भावे aka विनोबा भावे, famous for his भूदान movement, considered as the National Teacher of India 🇮🇳..
1911 - Scoring a century 💯 on his debut.. the first player to score a Test century for India national cricket team 1.5 years after India started playing Test cricket.. पद्म भूषण 🏅 लाला अमरनाथ भारद्वाज was also Independent India's first captain 🏏..
1915 - अनंत "दाजीकाका" गाडगीळ - the सिंहगड veteran, founder of P. N. Gadgil Jewellers and Company, पुणे 💎.. not to be confused with P. N. Gadgil Jewellers and Sons, that hails from सांगली..
while these 3 lived for 87, 88 and 98 years respectively, some people at the other end of the world had some barbaric 😈 plans for 2001..
Android / WhatsApp was not born yet.. so, people heavily relied on idiot box 📺 for the current affairs.. that dusk / evening / twilight 🌃 (India), with live broadcast of 9/11, everybody around the globe 🌍 was left stunned (in their time zones).. nearly 3,000 people lost their lives (including 19 terrorists).. as Amish writes 📝 in his creations, "may their souls find the purpose again" - must already have..
now, what does all of this "this day that year" has to do with this trek?.. the no-brainer (and only correct) answer is, "absolutely nothing" 🙅♂️.. but without WhatsApp (and many other nonexistent things), then, life was easy, rather, very easy 😇, right? now, for no reasons, we have people (mis)using it for "good morning", "happy birthday", "happy anniversary" type of messages.. raise your hand ✋ if you ever were / are an obligatory victim of this stupidity..
and to top all that, people read, enjoy and forward ⏩ all types of hoax, but show-up unprepared for the hiking activities, conveniently ignoring the relevant messages on schedule ⏱️ details and the necessary checklist.. like, not again 😔.. any speculation towards this being a suggestion for anything unusual that could have happened during the day, will be a disappointment.. so, don't try to connect any dots.. yet.. 😉
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| लिंगदेव |
9/11 (2022)
we have an unsaid pact in our group, of greeting "good morning" ☀️ to record the attendance, ONLY on the staging days.. that also means, whoever has ditched for that day, needs to keep shut.. around 5:30 a.m. 🕠, phone beeped "good morning", and only to somehow feature in this article, we learned, it's from राहुल.. you happy now? 👻 now, directly in next article 😀..
other राहुल was way ahead of the schedule and waiting already at his pick-up point.. he has his watch set to Bangladesh 🇧🇩 time zone, not my problem 😜.. when it was time (India 🇮🇳 time zone, and not 'IST' which we often manipulate to our convenience 😆), I (+ सुयोग) picked him up and were waiting at वैभव's pick-up point.. his setting concurs with Pakistan's 🇵🇰 time zone, and that's actually a problem 😜..
even before entering लवासा, we knew, today's timeline will just be awesome..
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| टेमघर waters, credits: वैभव |
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| credits: वैभव |
next, we found ourselves in a no network 📵 zone, as we parked at the starting point.. though we had the trail, it was stuck somewhere in the web, beyond our Androids' reach (yeah, you read above, iOS 🍎, now popularly known as 'एक एकोणतीस पाचशे' did not join today).. so, approximating with whatever GPS 🛰️ was assisting us with, we marched ahead, towards लिंग्या घाट, guessing the direction as best as you 🫵 can do right now.. realizing it to be not in any mood, we swapped the ascending 📈 and descending 📉 routes..
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| धनगराचा फेटा, credits: वैभव |
after reaching the edge of सह्याद्रीs, i.e., before descending to (not exactly, but fair enough) कोकण side of महाराष्ट्र, we had our breakfast, whilst enjoying these 👇 breathtaking views (कुर्डूगड inclusive).. by now, much needed cellular network 📶 was back to / in our Androids, just good enough to download the trail and Maps.. 'time lapse 📹 लावायला पाहिजे होता', GoPro owner realized this after बंटी-बबली (dog 🐕 couple - today's 6th and 7th companions start-to-end) have had more than enough of whatever we carried under the checklist item 'breakfast'.. too late 😞
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| citadel in the left - कुर्डूगड |
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| credits: वैभव |
descending the निसणीची वाट was a bit tricky, because of the in-progress season, monsoon 🌦️.. they say, history repeats.. and चिंतन slipped again to hurt 🩹 himself a bit.. previous instance was during दिवे घाट - रामदरा - मल्हारगड trek, earlier this year.. if interested, please find the article in the archive under July-2022.. Quechua 🥾 can be / are deceptive in सह्याद्री..
चिंतन, his injured hand, बंटी-बबली and me,
credits: राहुल
marching towards कुर्डूगड was a plain jungle walk.. trying to find the left ⬅️ diversion to start the ascending exercise, we traversed more than half of the fort, all the way to its West side, to join the trail from its base village in कोकण, जिते.. ascending till the first bastion (बुरुज) 🚩, we failed to spot any navigable option to the top.. but, a route to the left took us to the USP of the fort, which I was not aware of 🤷 till that moment..
the star ⭐ shaped नेढं - unique of its kind, this नेढं appears to have gained its structure, when a cliff must have got cut in half and fell on its neighbour (वरच्या वर) to form a hole ⭕.. this fall is not a tough guess when one sees the easily recognisable distinct bodies.. so.. it's so not formed by the popularly opted natural process of erosion (that's my best guess).. unlike all other नेढं equipped forts / mountains, where it can be well seen from the base, the fort citadel stands tall right behind this (if to be viewed from base), blocking the sky view.. the shape of the fallen rock, gives the hole, its star-like or human-like shape..
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| credits: वैभव |
back ↪️ to the junction (route from जिते), we rested for a small snacks 🧁 break at the कुर्डाई माता temple with a भगतसिंग frame, which also happens to be a primary school 🚸.. few metres later, we met another group of 23 people, led by a familiar face, अनिकेत from Swachhand Adventure Foundation..
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| credits: वैभव |
while the big-in-size spiders 🕷️ reminded us of खडसांबळे, the snake 🐍 was only generous to give दर्शन to one of us, not me.. continuing past the next junction (from निसणीची वाट), at some distance, we could now see / hear the water thumping hard 🌊.. though we were well prepared this time (network wise), having crossed the waterfall stream, we failed to spot an established route that should take us to the top 🆙.. 2 back-to-back ribbons 🎀 failed, downloaded trail was nowhere to be seen, on ground level..
another group, Giridarshan, had their outing today in exactly the same region and सुयोग was aware of this.. if it was not us, he would have anyway come here today (with them).. we then saw a few people enjoying at the base of waterfall (presumably ⏳, a pond-like structure).. he called 📞 the organizers to check if any help can be negotiated.. वैभव suggested to call अनिकेत (you just read about him)..
calculations led us to 'nil' as the chances of a trail on that side.. so, we were back 🔙 to this side and started ascending the stream itself, where water force / flow was negligible - नळीची वाट kind-of.. in next few minutes, we were back in the game having found more-than-perfect पायवाट 👣 (wondering, "why bold?".. keep guessing).. call chaining triggered by सुयोग, by now, had resulted in a person calling out 🗣️ to him from the top..
the presumption from some time ago, transformed ⌛ into "definitely, a pond-like structure".. from here, it was hardly a few metres ascend, followed by a couple of kms plain walk.. so, other 4 had their time in the puddle 🛀.. YouTube video by GoPro owner वैभव, https://youtu.be/XdQGWuNYlcU
nothing worth-a-mention happened hereafter, so, that's all for today..
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