Further
registrations will be closed tonight. Anyone dropping out please inform us asap
Assembly points/contacts
Store following numbers in your cell phone
TIDEL Park (4am) - bus stop in front of TIDEL entrance gate
Manoj - 9940368558
Susanne - 9445515371
Madya Kailash (4:10am) - bus stop behind the temple
Alex - 9677093980
Meenakshi - 9940485057
Guindy circle (4:20am) - Toyota showroom near Le Meridien
Karmu - 9884309864
Koyambedu (4:40am) - Nathan's Cafe just after public bus terminus
Peter - 9600004509
Ela - 9962527887
Anna Nagar (4:50am) - Anna Nagar West bus depot (people registered for Koyambedu who live closer to this point are requested to assemble here to reduce the crowd in Koyambedu)
Biju - 9444184820
Nagalapuram (6:30-7am) - public bus stand
Chitra - 9900699666
Assembly process
1. Report near the organizer for attendance
2. Pay expense - 700Rs regular participant, car driver gets 500Rs refund (1200Rs fuel cost), 400Rs for bike driver (300Rs fuel cost), kids below 12 are free
4. Good swimmers identify themselves and get blue ribbon (organizers will ensure sufficient swimmers are present near deeper pools for additional safety)
5. Car driver - get A4 sticker to be put on back window
6. Get into one of the available cars (5 per car) or bikes (2 per bike)
Route to Nagalapuram
All members coming with car or bike should ensure their vehicles are in good serviced condition and have sufficient fuel (200km round trip) to avoid delays.
Cars/bikes of each assembly point will proceed in group towards Nagalapuram (independent of other pick up points) - drive at comfortable pace (40 in city, 60-70 on highways) and stay together as one group
Overall lead car - Peter - black Toyota Fortuner with yellow flag (no one goes before this)
Route map (vehicle owners - please read carefully and take along print out)
From TIDEL, towards Madya Kailash, towards Guindy Circle, towards Koyambedu, proceed straight for 20min on outer ring road (Jawaharlal Nehru road), go straight over Padi flyover, pass DRJ hospital, ....
There are 7 major diversions along the route - Peter will deploy a bike or car with red flag near each diversion to guide the vehicles
1. NH 5 junction - take left before flyover
(proceed straight on NH5 - pass through toll gate)
2. Puthur Highway - take left turn immediately after crossing 200m long bridge (Kortaillayar river)
3. After Periyapalayam Bus Stand - take immediate Left Turn (cross bridge after turning)
4. Uttukottai junction - proceed straight
5. Pass Nagalapuram and shortly take right (nearly straight angle) from highway
6. Take left at T junction near Water Dam (proceed on winding small tar road)
7. Take left at village near the Attur dam
Overall sweeper car - Biju - silver Alto with yellow flag (no one goes behind this) will take care of
Assembly at parking near dam
A few volunteers will be present to manage the parking of the large number of cars and bikes near the dam
Volunteers proceed towards group 1, 2, 3, 4 assembly points (red flags with number 1/2/3/4) corresponding to your registered level 1, 2, 3, 4
Within each group we will distribute the food - pick up your food items and put in your back packs -
Breakfast - Poori Sabji
Lunch - Rice
Dinner - Sweet and Salt poli's
Sunday Breakfast- Nilgiris bun 3 per head
Lunch - Chappatis - 4 per head
Pickles packed shared per 5 heads
Snacks - 2 glucon Isotonik, 2 apples, 1 Chips Packet, 1 Biscuit Packet
Have your breakfast while the remaining participants of your group arrive.... (20min)
Requesting a few volunteers to carry the tarpaulin sheets required for camping for each group
Briefing will be given by group leads on day proceedings and safety guidelines
Minimize your back pack luggage - drop unnecessary items in cars
Start of the trek
Once everyone has arrived, taken food items and breakfast we will proceed as follows
Navigators/leads - Peter/Ela - yellow flag
Group 4 participants (level 4)
Karmu/Alex/Manoj - carrying red flag 4
Group 3 participants
Meena/Susanne/Chitra - carrying red flag 3
Group 2 participants
Biju - carrying red flag 2
Group 1 participants
Sweeper - Bala - carrying red flag 1
Trek guidelines/check points/group finalization
No one goes beyond Peter/Ela (global leads)
No one stays behind Bala (global sweeper)
The 4 group leads/flags 1-2-3-4 will proceed at a fixed pace
Participants are free to move ahead of their initial group/flag or drop back to a previous group/flag depending on their comfort level
Anyone from any group reaching the checkpoints below before FLAG X is allowed to proceed further with group X (unless they prefer to stay back)
All participants following behind flag X are strictly not allowed to proceed further with group X in order not to delay the front groups from reaching their campsites on time (before darkness)
checkpoint 1 (pool 2/social trek) - FLAG 2 (someone behind flag 2 becomes part of group 1)
checkpoint 2 (pool 3/campsite 1) - FLAG 2 (someone behind flag 2 becomes part of group 1)
checkpoint 3 (fifth falls, before steep climb) - FLAG 3 (someone behind flag 3 becomes part of group 2)
checkpoint 4 (canal pool/campsite 2) - FLAG 3 (someone behind flag 3 becomes part of group 2)
checkpoint 5 (grass patch/campsite 3) - FLAG 4 (someone behind flag 4 becomes part of group 3)
Indication flags
Always ensure that you have eye contact with the person in front and behind you to ensure continuity of the group and avoid missing the trail
The trail has 5 spots were one might be confused. We will put red flags near the same to guide the participants
spot where we leave sandy trail and get into the stream
spot where we climb right above the first pool
spot where we climb right above second pool
spot where we climb left above fifth falls
spot where we climb right below back to valley
spot where we climb left up from valley to 800m peak
Warming - Safety near deep water
Non-swimmers should not get into the deeper pools along the stream. If you want to enter the pools you should bring along a swimming tube with you (available for 75Rs at sport shops).
Always ensure sufficient good swimmers (blue ribbon) are present near the pool you are about to enter.
CTC is NOT responsible for any accidents near pools (frequently participants get into trouble as the deep vs. undeep areas in the pools are not clear - come prepared or stay out)
Must carry
1) Good walking shoes & a pair of sandals to move around in streams and the camping site.
2) Small/compact (NOT large) back-pack to carry water, food + following essentials
3) Blanket (nights will be warm) or Sleeping bag
4) LED torch to get around at night
5) One extra set of clothes to sleep dry at night
6) Sun cap and cream (to protect from sun)
7) Two sets of reusable PET bottles (can be filled along the stream)
8) Reusable bowl and spoon for dinner (No disposable ones)
9) Camera, fully charged batteries, memory card – optional
10) Sleeping mat
11) Swimming tube (non-swimmers who want to get into the pools)
Advance payment
As we need to buy a large amount of food for the huge group we request some of you to online transfer the money to the following account -
Bank Name: State Bank of India
Bank Branch: Valmiki nagar chennai
Name on Bank Account: J Alex Franklin Jude
Account Number: 20037453518
Swift/BIC Code: SBININBB453
Bank Sort/Branch Code: 11721
700Rs regular participant, 400Rs for bike drivers, car drivers will get refund for fuel expense
Further reading
Nagala is waiting for us all... 2.5 more days to go.....
Final participants list (please check your name)
tharanibabu
Sriram Raghavan
Arun Laxman
K.Ashok kumar
Sivakumar PS
Ramesh B
Sathish J
rajendran
Rooban
Vijayaganesh
Ashok Rajasekaran
Thiruselvan
Vikram Gokhale
Anurag Jain
Sunil Kumar V
Manish Mishra
R.Sampath
Venkat N
Chandra Shekhar A K
Vinod Senthil
S.Sathyanarayanan
Hari Suman Naik
deva
adhav
Gurumurthy
pankaj kumar kharadi
NobalMohan
Jaiganesh S
Ramanuj
Prasanna Venkatesh
Amarnath
viki
Paari
Maruthi Raj M
Shobha
Subramaniam PS
Ramesh R
Santosh Kumar V
Ramesh
gangadharan
Vijayaraghavan
SakthiKumar
Vaitheeswaran
Karthik R
Shyam Sundar M R
Ramesh
Kosalaraman.v
Arun
RADHAKRISHNA MURTHY
Hema Chandra
Mahesh
Venki
gaja
karthik
Susi
deepak gupta
yogananth
Rengarajan G
Punit Goyal
BIJO THOMAS
NAYAAB RADHAWA
Prerana
Sathish Kumar S
Sethupathi S
Parthiban
Srinivasan S
Siva Rama Krishnan.T
Ravikiran
gayathri chandrashekar
Arun Jonathan
Subhasis Samanta
sridhar raparthi
Easwara Moorthi
kedar Choudhary
kaarthikeyan.s
Ravikumar
Aswin Anand
Balasenthil
Rajasekar Krishnaswamy
Mohan Raj
rajeev dev
rajasekar.s
omjee
veena r
Balaji N
Yatinkumar Agrawal
Anand Kale
Suman Singha
Sucharita
Priya
Suresh Kumar D
Anita
g.selvachandrakumar
saranya
sunith samdaria
Manivannan
Senthil Prabu S
D. Srinivasan
Veenit Kumar
AMAL RAJESH A
manojkumar n
Leo Anandraj
Bala Hariharan
Vivekanandhan S
vimal
Thiruvengadam P
Arvindh Arun
Prakash Kumar
Shon Yadav
Divya Rajagopal
naresh puri
Chandrashekhar S
kadar haneef
natarajan
Goutham S
Anavarathan Raj
Meenakshi Veeramani
Sakthivel N
Ramesh D
Senthil Kumar S
Mahesh Ramakrishnan
kranthi kumar k
SUBHASHREE VARADHAN
Amit Dalal
JasonWinni
Ashwin
Muruganandam C
Gowri S
VIJAY KRISHNAN
Ramaswamy S
Bhaskaran N
J.Mahendran
Santhosh N
ambrish kumar
T.Tamil Selvan
Nandini Tare
Vignesh
Radha Viswanathan
Suresh Kanna
Pathiban
Prasanna
Girish Revankar
Avinash Vem
KRISHNAN
Gopikrishna Mandapati
Lilford Immanuel
Siddharthan
Madheswaran.v
Gubendran.J
Kaushik
Siva kumar G
Susanne Muenzberg
Krishna Prasad
Suresh Kumar CTS
Mugunthan
Vandhana Mothinath
Vaishnavi.R
Chris
venkatesh aditya
ashwini hari
MUSTANSIR
Abishek subramanian
Vadivel K
LaxmiNarayanan.C
V S Leelakrishnan
Rajah ganesh
Sanjay Mullasseri
Karthick Rajamani
Chitra Subramanian
Antony Prince
Bharadwaj
hem prakash
Pradeep Madhavankutty
Sanjay Bysani
Varrun Ramani
Lakshmi
Muthukumar S
Yeshwanth
mohankumar sekhar
Sivaganesan
krishnam
Sampath Kumar
Madhavan.R
Sivaraj S
Praful Bodra
Abhinav Johnson
S.Karthick
prasanna.s
Biju
Zen Bala
Alex
Karmu
Peter
radhaa +1
Chandrashekar CH
Senthil Kumar R
RAJINIKANDH ARS
Prasanna V
J.ARAVIND KUMAR
gurva reddy
Aditya Gopalan
Naresh Bafna
Vishnu S Menon
Shruti
Sivaprakasham
Vinod Kumar
Vani Maradi
Vishnu S Menon
Ryan Frantz
Amey B. Nirpase
Ela Johri
Ravi Ganapathy
Kumud Nishad
Rahul Kumar Rai
Anand Singh
Satish CR
Madhan
Shweta Chauhan
Supriya Mattoo
Jim Varghese
Akshay Nair
Guutham Gurumurthi
Ragulan
Venkateshwara Rao
Satish kumar
Arun B S
Krishnamoorthy
Ranjithkumar
Karthikeyan R
Bharathi
B.L.Venkatesh
Arun
rajasekaran
Sathi Ravi Kanth Reddy
Dominic Fernandez
C.R.Bharathi Kannan
Prasanth TK
Arunkumar V
shanmugam
Aniruddha Kulkarni
Jisha Jayakumar
VENKATESH B L
rajeshkanna
veerasamy
soumen deb
Nithya K V
Gowri sankar
Naveen
Neeraj Agrawal
Roshinth s s
karthik era
S.Soorya Narayanan
Nithyan
Archana.N
Saurabh Arya
Rinkesh Dwivedi
S Vinodh Kumar
William Frantz
Arjun
N Vasanth
Sowmya Raghav
john jain
Chandrika R
Goutham N Vaidya
Rupesh Aravind
RAVICHANDRA
Rajasekaran Natarajan
Anish
Keerthivasan
Anshul Chaurasia
Akanksha
A. Charumathi
Satheesh Narayanan
Marimuthu P
K.SELVANAYAGAM
S.VISHWANATH
N.SATHYANARAYANAN
S.KARTHIK
G.RAMANARAYANAN
RAGHU
PRAVEEN KUMAR
S.GANESAN
S.PRABHAKARAN
srigopi k
Kannan S
Mahadevan K
Selvan Thandapani
Prateek Sharma
Nupur Gupta
Amaury Josseaume
Parthiban
Vivek V
Mahesh N
Vikas V
Avinesh Vasudevan
Dharmendra S
Subhashmuthukumar
Banita
Muthamil Selvan
saravanan.r
Aravind
Velmurugan.K
Julie de Montjoie
Cecilia Amieva