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               This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.  It says that our ancestors used to worship animals, rivers, mountains, trees.  Now, can this be called a mere blind belief? Or  this had some deeper meaning to it? We still follow these but like 2 faces of a coin. At one hand we worship one Peepal(Ashwatha) tree amidst a temple and on the other side destroy hectares of forests in the name of progress and development. Global warming is real. It is no more a small topic that we used to read in text books. The impact is seen and felt everywhere around the world. Let’s start from facts and current status of what the impact of Climate changes are in India : Heat waves, as the years pass we can and we are experiencing heat waves that are reaching upto 50 degrees in some part of India. Over population and climate chan...

"When snow falls, nature listens".... When we , the trekker friends discussed on having a Himalayan Trek all that was in mind was Snow.! The level of excitement was too high. With a well known guide, we , group of 13 friends got a Customized trek package for "Buran pass". It was the first that we came across the name of this trek and it sounded thrilling too. Started by confirmation of 5, we ended with one beautiful and amazing team of 14 who were all set to experience some of the best moments of life.  First and foremost, since the climate in Himachal is unpredictable we had to prepare ourselves with the right attire. Like a saying “There is no bad weather but bad clothing”, it was very important for us to have thermals, fleece, jackets, scarf and everything that’s needed. We had a pretty good shopping done on this regard. Flight tickets were simultaneously booked to Chandigarh from Bangalore. While shopping, you might need not buy everything since few items like, ...

Being a hodophile, it was since my childhood I used to feel ineffeable about bikers, bikings, and roads. The beauty when it goes along with curved roads, the ease of it on highways, the excitement in off roads , the sound of bikes from biker groups when they pass through used to leave me in awe. It was when I came to Bangalore I got accompanied by few friends who loved road trips, trekking and adventures. I got a little lucky here I would tell. Slowly started to go on bike trips long and short distance only to see how these roads excites the bikers…the happiness in their eyes when they first time see and learn that there is another biker in and around. The identification of super bikes just by the sounds.. And two bikers together don’t become friends they become family.. Ask a biker which was their favourite memory of life..and there will be a huge list of trips when they were on roads and they can’t name one. And the discussion with bikers are always divergent. Sometimes about...

ಕುಮಾರ ಪರ್ವತ... ಎಂಜಿನಿಯರಿಂಗ್ ಟೈಮ್ ಇಂದನೂ ಬಹಳ ಕಾಡಿಸಿದ್ದ ಕಾಯಿಸಿದ್ದ ಚಾರಣ. ಎಲ್ಲದಕ್ಕೂ ಶುಭ ಘಳಿಗೆ ಬೇಕೂ ಅನ್ನೋ ತರ ಕೆಲ್ಸಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿ ಎರಡು ವರ್ಷ ಆದ್ಮೇಲೆ KP TREK ಕನಸು ನನಸಾಗೋ ಕಾಲ ಬಂದಿತ್ತು. ಹದಿನಾಲ್ಕು ಜನ ಚಾರಣ ಪ್ರಿಯರು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿಂದ ಸುಬ್ರಮಣ್ಯ ಟ್ರೈನ್ ಓಡಿ ಓಡಿ ಹತ್ತಿದ್ವಿ...ರೈಲು ಪ್ರಯಾಣ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರ ಜೊತೆ ಬೇರೇನೆ ಅನುಭವ. ನಗು...ಕಥೆಗಳು...ನೆನಪುಗಳು...ಹೀಗೆ ಸಾಗಿತ್ತು ಪ್ರಯಾಣ. ಆವಾಗಾವಾಗ ಬೇರೆ ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಕರ ಹತ್ರ ಬೈಸ್ಕೊಂಡು ಮುಂದುವರೆದಿತ್ತು ನಮ್ಮ ರಥ..ಮಧ್ಯರಾತ್ರಿ ತನಕ ಜಗದ ಆಗು ಹೋಗುಗಳ ಬಗೆಗೆಲ್ಲ ಮಾತಾಡಿ, ಎಂಜಿನಿಯರಿಂಗ್ ಮಾರ್ವೆಲ್ ಗಳೆಲ್ಲವನ್ನು ಲಿಸ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಿ... ಮಲ್ಕೊಂಡು ಏಳೋವಾಗ ಗಂಟೆ ಸುಮಾರು ಐದು..ರೈಲ್ವೇ ಸ್ಟೇಷನ್ ಇಂದ ಸುಬ್ರಹ್ಮಣ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸರಕಾರಿ ಬಸ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಮಾರು ೩೦ನಿಮಿಷ ಪ್ರಯಾಣ. ಬಂದು ಫ್ರೆಶ್ ಅಪ್ ಆಗಿ ಎಕ್ಸ್ಟ್ರಾ ಲಗ್ಗೇಜ್ ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ರೂಂನಲ್ಲಿಟ್ಟು ಒಂದು ದೊಡ್ಡ ಬ್ಯಾಗ್ ಹಿಡ್ಕೊಂಡು ಅಲ್ಲೇ ತಿಂಡಿ ತಿಂದು ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನದ ಹಿಂದಿನ ದಾರೀಲಿ ಚಾರಣ ಸ್ಟಾರ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ವಿ. ಇದು ಎರಡು ದಿನಗಳ ನಡೆ ಆಗಿರೋದ್ರಿಂದ ಟೆಂಟ್ ಗಳು ಅಗತ್ಯ. ದಾರಿಯಲ್ಲೇ ಹಲವು ಕಡೆ ಟೆಂಟ್ ಗಳನ್ನು ಬಾಡಿಗೆಗೆ ಕೊಡುವ ಸೌಲಭ್ಯ ಇದೆ. ಮುಂಗಡ ಹಣ ಪಾವತಿಸಿ ಟೆಂಟ್ ಗಳನ್ನೂ ಹಿಡ್ಕೊಂಡು ಅಲ್ಲ ಅಲ್ಲ...ಹೊತ್ಕೊಂಡು ಸಾಗಿತ್ತು ನಮ್ಮ ನಡೆ. ಮೊದಲ ಕೆಲವು ಗಂಟೆಗಳು ಕಾಡು ಮತ್ತು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಕಡಿದಾದ ದಾರಿ. ಕರಾವಳಿ ಆಗ...