3-day trek to Ombattu Gudde - April 10-12 - invitation
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Peter Van Geit
Mar 12, 2009, 6:04:54 AM3/12/09
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Ombattu Gudde in Kannada means “Nine Hills”. It’s a group of nine peaks 1000 meters above sea level in the Kabinale Reserve Forest. The trek starts from the Gundya check-post on the Bangalore-Mangalore highway NH48, a 10 hour uphill climb through dense forest. The forest is extremely virgin with huge bamboos and dense foliage playing host to a range of wildlife from the tiger, leopard, jungle cat, barking deer to gaur, sloth bear and, of course, the wild elephant. This route is noted as one of the most mysterious routes in the Western Ghats.
Many have tried, many have failed, gotten lost in the jungle... Chennai Trekkers is planning to conquer Ombattu Gudde on the long weekend of April 10-12 along a totally new trail. OG is trekking in "CTC style" - dense jungle, virgin forest, steep uphill, clear streams, no pre-existing trail, easy to get lost, wild-life all around, navigation using topographic map and GPS. Note - this is one of Peter's favorite treks. Difficulty level is high. Only for experienced trekkers.
Wanna join this amazing trek? Proceed in this order -
Step 1 - pay your advance (see payment form for details on how to pay)
Step 2 - fill in the advance payment confirmation form
Step 3 - register yourself
In case you have to drop out due to unforeseen circumstances
Photos
Peter Van Geit
Mar 18, 2009, 12:39:11 AM3/18/09
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18 members have registered for our ultimate OG/3 trek on the long weekend of April 10-12. Any other brave souls out there who are interested to join this not-soon-to-be-forgotten trek?
Peter.
arun gowda
Mar 19, 2009, 3:24:33 AM3/19/09
to Peter Van Geit, The Chennai Trekking Club
Spend this GOOD FRIDAY with nature at the Ombattu Gudde (western Ghats - check pics).... This trek is said to be one of the amazing and exciting treks of south India. Ombattu Gudde has all wat a trekker expects, steep terrain, ice cold flowing stream, thick forest etc.... We already have 28 registrations. Registrations close this weekend..
Wanna join this amazing trek? Proceed in this order -
Step 1 - pay your advance (see payment form for details on how to pay)
Step 2 - fill in the advance payment confirmation form
Step 3 - register yourself
In case you have to drop out due to unforeseen circumstances
Photos
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Vinod.thespartan/OmbattuGudda#On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Peter Van Geit <peter....@gmail.com> wrote:
Peter Van Geit
Mar 19, 2009, 7:19:16 AM3/19/09
to arun gowda, The Chennai Trekking Club
Summary of the current 31 OG/3 registrations
Participants, please check your status below and take corrective action asap. I plan to book train tickets tomorrow itself. You need to (1) pay the advance, (2) fill up advance payment form and (3) fill up registration form (in that order)
All, I am planning to book train tickets tomorrow so hurry up in case you wanna join this one.
Advance status
22 members paid the requested advance
| diwakar |
| Peter Van Geit |
| Divya |
| Senthil Subramaniam |
| Palanidaran |
| vinodh chandran |
| Ramki |
| Revathi Ramanan |
| Akila Duraisamy |
| Namratha Agarwal |
| Sai Krishnan |
| K.P. Saravanan |
| Lead Mechery |
| Jaskirat Singh Veen |
| Balaji Seshan | ||
| Ram Prasad | ||
| Karthik D | ||
| Vinod Roy M | ||
| Palanikumar R V | ||
| Sriram | ||
| Sreeram
S. | ||
| N.M.R. Saran R Still to pay |
Nafees | Transferred insufficient Dinesh Kumar
Sangram
Patil
Lakshmynarayan Transfer ot received yet Sekhar
Jajimoggala Not yet filled up the registration sheet
(required for booking train tickets)
Nafees
Senthil
Subramaniam
Palanidaran
vinodh
chandran
Balaji
Seshan
Ram
Prasad
Palanikumar
R V
Sriram
Sangram
Patil
sathish Not yet filled up the advance payment sheet
(invitation clearly mentions to first pay advance before registering!)
Vikram J
Shanmugam
Somasundaram
Sathish
raj
Shriram
vivek
yadav
Ravikanth
K
Radha
Viswanathan
Prashant
Durgadmath
Vinodha
Jeyanthilal
Srikkanth
Mohanasundaram
Srikkanth
Mohanasundaram
Rola
Sangtam
kutral Peter. |
Sabari
Mar 19, 2009, 8:13:14 AM3/19/09
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Hi folks,
Im a rookie trekking enthusiast here. I would like to know if there is
anyone starting from Hyderabad on Thu the 9th for OG3? Please give me
pointers as I'm based out of Hyd and would like to be part of this
trek at any cost :). If you have prior experience from ppl travelling
from Hyd, please share the itenerary/contacts so that I can plan to
rendevouz with the chennai folks..
I see that Peter is planning to get tickets done by tomorrow and I
will make necessary payments/arrangements as soon as I hear from you
on this..
And btw, truely amzaed by this gang of peaceful conquerors..kudos to
Peter and the spirit of this gang!
regards,
Sabari
http://sabaris.co.nr/
Im a rookie trekking enthusiast here. I would like to know if there is
anyone starting from Hyderabad on Thu the 9th for OG3? Please give me
pointers as I'm based out of Hyd and would like to be part of this
trek at any cost :). If you have prior experience from ppl travelling
from Hyd, please share the itenerary/contacts so that I can plan to
rendevouz with the chennai folks..
I see that Peter is planning to get tickets done by tomorrow and I
will make necessary payments/arrangements as soon as I hear from you
on this..
And btw, truely amzaed by this gang of peaceful conquerors..kudos to
Peter and the spirit of this gang!
regards,
Sabari
http://sabaris.co.nr/
Peter Van Geit
Mar 24, 2009, 8:23:13 AM3/24/09
to The Chennai Trekking Club
All,
we got 67 registrations for OG/3 so far. We are planning to rent 2x36 seat buses to transport us between Bangalore and the Kabinale reserve forest which means we can accommodate another 5 members for the unique, once-in-a-lifetime trek.
Anyone interested to join? Trust me, life will never be the same after this one...
Peter.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Peter Van Geit <peter....@gmail.com> wrote:
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