Total distance: About 40-45 Km (good of enough for the SR #1)
Total time: About an hour and a half
Its a lazy sunday afternoon, I hadn’t taken a ride on the bullet for almost 3 weeks now.
Two options: Take a well-deserved good nap or take-off on an unplanned ride:
Obviously decided to go for the ride. Most minimum gear: Mandatory helmet, Leather gloves and a rain-coat, coz its the monsoon season.
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Leaving Home
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Finally decided to move my homepage out of google apps. The mail, docs, calendar and chat features are all great. But the web pages are given only using pagecreater or sites. They need to be flushed down into the drain by google immediately. It is the most obvious thing to atleast add blogger to google apps. But its been an infinite delay on that.
I still have my mail, docs etc. on google apps. But now I am hosting a wordpress blog on dreamhost now by updating my DNS nameservers to dreamhost on godaddy.
So watch for further updates !
(Guest posted by Sai.. Great post man !!)
“Sun Soaked Departure – Rain Lashed Arrival”
Any trip log starts with the description of an ‘itch for a ride’ reason. So, lets go ahead and say that a bunch of bikers/wannabes wanted to ride and ride long.
[image above: the team]
Introducing the riders (from right to left)
1) Kamlesh aka ‘Sherpa Kamli’ –> the snow trekker –> Bullet 350 (Standard)
2) Guru aka ‘Guru bhai’ –> ice cool biker –> Bullet Machismo 500
3) Sai aka ?? 
–> Pulsar 180 (UG3)
4) Nasir aka ‘Nazi bhai’ –> team photographer, fog clearer, super entertainer, official account keeper (MBA works!!) –> Pillion on Kallu’s bike
5) Joe aka ‘Joe Rocket’ –> globe trotting navy man –> Bullet 350 (Electra)
6) Calvin aka ‘Kallu mama’ –> true dreamer (the one responsible for all 7 of us in the above frame) –> Bullet 350 (Electra) (getting a pillion who does not happen to be your girlfriend is a true achievement … its friendship … hats off to you)
7) Sumesh aka ’somer sault man’ –> official timekeeper –> Bullet 350 (Electra 5S)
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[Image above: Trail from Mullayanagiri to Baba Budan Giri (located near distant mobile tower seen above)]
Mullayanagiri is part of the the Baba Budan Giri Hill Ranges. It stands at 1930 meters and is the tallest peak in Karnataka. There is a small temple (matta) on top of the hill. The small hillock in the temple compound is the highest point in Karnataka. It is around 250 kms from bangalore and 12 kms from Chikmagalur.
Baba Budan Giri : takes its name from the Muslim saint, Baba Budan, who resided here more than 150 years ago and reared coffee from the seeds he had secured from Yemen. The Baba-Budan range has taken its name from the 1895 meters high Baba-Budan Giri, situated just 28 kms north of Chikmagalur town. [source: wikipedia]
Baba Budangiri shrine is also called Dattatreya Peeta. It has been controversial due to communal tension (claimed by both hindus and muslim groups). [source: wikipedia]
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[Image above: Tandiyandimol, the highest peak (5,724 ft) of kodagu district, Karnataka]
As usual we took the Rajahamsa bus of KSRTC to Virajpet (a town in kodagu district). We started from bangalore at 10:30 pm and reached Virajpet at 4:30 am. We checked into a local hotel to freshen and take a small nap. However, due to few people 
oversleeping, we checked out of the hotel, quite late at 8 am. Sorry about that, I had to work late the previous night.
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[Image above: Gang at Dayara Bugyal, Uttarakhand]
The journey started from New Delhi, after waiting for 3 hrs at the bus terminal in the dead of the night. We parked ourselves in the front seats of the bus to Haridwar and had the scariest bus journeys of our lives. After a bit of clear roads, the fog literally started to flow onto the roads. Our driver turned out to be a brave one (to our shock) and drove with ease even without a metre of visibility. His plan was simple, watch for the dim lights of the vehicles from the opposite direction and just pass to the left of them (in the process, sometimes confusing two truck headlights for two bikes and just managing to steer away in time). Once, he even tried to chase down a car which managed to overtake him (and piss him off) in this extreme weather. I hereby, nominate him for the national stupidity award and request the Uttarakhand Govt to please take him off the force. Add the bitter cold to all this and this bus journey was quite an adventure in itself.
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[Image above: The gang resting on chembra peak with other peaks visible in the background]
We took the bangalore trekker’s official transport the (KSRTC) Rajahamsa to Kozhikode, Kerala and got down at Kalpetta, Wayanad District, Kerala. There, we checked into the PPS Tourist Home for freshening up, where we also met our guide for the trip, Mr. Pavithran.We took a jeep down to the chembra estate which was the starting point of the trek, which is about one hour from the hotel. The trek starts through a route which was a beautiful valley on one side and a lush green tea estate on the other.
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Kudremukh is a mountain in Chikmagalur district, in Karnataka, India. The name literally means ‘horse-face’ and refers to one picturesque view of a side of the mountain. It is noted for its scenic beauty, located in midst of mountains. Three important rivers, the Tunga, the Bhadra and the Nethravathi are said to have their origin here.
Journey Begins:
Two buses started from our office at around 10 pm. One of the buses, watched the movie X-Men2, while the people in the other bus partied and danced to kannada, tamil, telugu and hindi songs. The bus route was Bangalore – Hassan – Belur – Mudigere – Kalasa – Kudremukh. The morning mist and cloud covered valley was just amazing.
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[PHOTO ABOVE: Kukke Subramanya temple with cloud covered Kumara Parvatha hill in the background]
Kumara Parvatha peak with a height of about 4000 ft is the second highest peak in Karnataka after Mullayanagiri, but is said to be the toughest trek in karnataka.
The trek starts from Kukke Subrahmanya, which is an important hindu pilgrimage center.
Kukke Subramanya can be reached by road (we took a KSRTC special dasara bus) from bangalore. The route to Kukke is off NH-48 at Sakleshpur. We reached Kukke around 7.00 am. After freshening up and an idli-vada breakfast, we started the trek at around 9.00 am.
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