Wayanad trek - final list & need to know

[Peter Van Geit]

Below is the final confirmed list of 68 Wayanad participants. Let me know in case I missed out anyone.

Important details regarding the trek are provided below. Read carefully.

Sandeep M and Ranjitkumar, both of you did not register yet. Please do so asap.

Contact

Store these numbers in your cell phone -

(Chennai)

Peter 9600004509 

Anand 9884123311 (finance)

Ram Prasad 9952968874

(Bangalore)

Vinod 9900111585

Arun 9986076407

Ramki 9448380130

Onward

Participants from Chennai to assemble at Central Station at 4:30pm on Friday (near Ananda Bhavan restaurant). We leave by Managalore Express and  reach Calicut around 4:15am. All those who join from Calicut are expected to be present latest by 4am. We do NOT wait for latecomers. We have rented two medium-sized buses to transport all of us from Calicut to Muthappanpuzha (base camp).

Trek

Our mission objective is to conquer Vellari Mala & Vavul Mala, the highest peaks in this area. Total distance (one way) is around 14km. Total ascent is around 1500m. Trek difficulty is very high due to the steep climb and higher altitude. We are on a tight schedule as we need to reach back on Monday afternoon in order not to miss our return train. If some people face difficulty to keep up with the pace of the group then we might have to leave those people along an intermediate campsite accompanied by few of the 5 local guides we arranged.

Start	Alt	To	Alt	Distance	Time
Muthappan Puzha town	450 m	Olichuchattam	1120 m	6.5 km	2.5 hours
Olichuchattam	1120 m	Damodaran Kolli	1850 m	3.5 km	4.5 hours
Damodaran Kolli	1850 m	Vellarimala peak	2050 m	900 m	1 hour
Peak	2050 m	Kethan Para	2040 m	700 m	20 min
Kethan Para	2040 m	REC Para	2030 m	400m	20 min
REC Para (next day)	2030 m	Vavul Mala	2315 m	1.8 km	1.5 hours

Return

We return by Chennai Mail from Calicut at 5:30pm on Monday evening and arrive back in Chennai Central at 5:25am on Tuesday early morning. Tell your manager not to expect optimum performance from you that same day... ;-)

Must-carry

The key word on any high difficulty trek with steep climb is "LIGHTWEIGHT". You will have to climb 1500 meters. Every extra 100 grams of weight will kill you. Ensure to pack MINIMAL luggage to minimize the weight of your backpack. Note that you will need to carry around 5kg of food/water extra provided by us!

The nights at 2000+ altitude will be cold - ensure to bring a sleeping bag or thick blanket with you. We do not carry tents. We just carry lightweight tarpauline sheets in case of rains.

Take good shoes, medium-sized backpack, LED torch, One extra set of clothes.

Do NOT use NEW shoes. Many times participants get painful feet by wearing new shoes. Also, frequently participants run into difficulty by loosing their soles. Check if your shoes are in proper shape.

Food and water is arranged by the organizers. Proper rationing of your limited water reserve is a must.

Leeches

According to the guide there are no leeches during this season

Confirmed Participants

Joining from Bangalore (7)

Arun Claudy Rayan Rama Padmanabhan Ramki Vinod D Varghese Vinod Roy M Vinod Chandran

Joining at Calicut (9)

Stalin Sathiran Sandeep Unnimadhavan Sanket Bhale Harshad Karandikar Vaibhav Kansal Virapandy Dinesh Nair Anant Shrotriya Vikash Kumar

Joining from Chennai (52)

Anand Chanduri Balaji Seshan Balamurugam Bastien Chezhian S Divya Diwakar Gurumoorthi Indira Kadambi Jeevanandam M KP Saravanan Kannan K Lavanya KM Mathusuthan NK NMR Saran Narasimhan Nithin c/o Desikan Palanikumar RV Peter VAn Geit Raghuvir Reddy Ramanathan RV Ram Prasad. D Ramesh S Satish Raj Shyam Sundar Sreekumar Sriram Srivathsan Tamal Gowri Nandan Maheshwari Bala Krishnan Vinchu Vel Muthiah K Rohit Malpani Raghunandan SN Abhimanyu Abitkar Sandeep M (not registered) Ranjitkumar (not registered) K Ramesh Kumar M. Hari Prasad Sankaranarayanan Subramanian Pon Karthik Siddharth Mithun Vinay Vasanth(sudhakar) Hari Haran V Lilford Immanuel Nagaraj Melmangalam Desikan Shankar Sachithanandam Vetri Karthikeyan Mugilem

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[Peter Van Geit]

Forgot to mention one important thing - carry a sleeping mat with you, preferably a lightweight/warm thermocoil mat.

http://groups.google.co.in/group/sachennaitrekkingclub/web/what-to-carry-during-a-trek

Peter.

[hari prasad]

Hi,

Today I purchased the lightweight thermorexin mat. It is available in the shops near Royapettah clock tower. 3/4" thickness (recommended by the club) was not available in many shops. They only had 1/2" rolls. Different shops quoted different prices. Some quoted as high as Rs.120 per meter for 1/2" rolls.

I bought 2 metres of 1/2" thermorexin mat and cut it into two (lengthwise)

Shop: Modern Traders Price: Rs.80/meter. Located on the left hand side when approached from the clock tower.

Thought this might be useful.

P.S: Please check availability of 3/4" before buying.

Regards,
Hari

[Peter Van Geit]

Thanks for sharing this info Hari. You can also glue two thin sheets together to obtain a thicker sleeping mat. 

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[Diwakar Viswanathan]

Recently I had bought a sleeping mat made of rubber kind of  sheet. Its thin (.5cm ) but it is very soft and strong. It can be used in any surface.

If you are a regular trekker and expect a good comfortness , you can go for this sleeping mat.

 

This is available in few plastic shops in kasi chetty street,parrys.

 

Cost Rs.350 for 2 mtrs length and 1 m wide. You can cut it as two also.

 

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[prasanna swaminathan]

hi ,
     i saw sleeping mat material in a shop near vadapalani .
300 meters before vadapalani signal  on the left if you are coming from ashok pillar
just thought of sharing it ....
prasanna

[Raghuvir Reddy]

Anything on ECR? all these places you people are mentioning are like the other side of the town for me. Can anybody who stays nearby these places and is coming to Wayanad, buy one extra mat for me.

Thanks in Advance
Raghuvir

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raghuvir reddy

[Peter Van Geit]

I still have two train tickets available in case anyone wants to join. First come, first serve.

Nr Name Location 1 Abhimanyu Abitkar  Chennai 2 Anand Chanduri Chennai 3 Bala Chennai 4 Bala Murugan Chennai 5 Balaji seshan Chennai 6 Chezhian Chennai 7 Divya Chennai 8 diwakar Chennai 9 Gowri  Chennai 10 Gurumoorthi Chennai 11 Hari Prasad  Chennai 12 Hariharan.V Chennai 13 Indira Kadambi Chennai 14 Jeevanandam M Chennai 15 K.P.Saravanan Chennai 16 Kannan K Chennai 17 Karthick Ramlingam  Chennai 18 Karthikeyan  Chennai 19 Lavanya KM Chennai 20 Lilford  Chennai 21 Mathusuthan N K Chennai 22 Mithun Chennai 23 N.M.R. Saran Chennai 24 Nagaraj  Chennai 25 Nandan  Chennai 26 Palanikumar R V  Chennai 27 Pavan  Chennai 28 Peter Van Geit Chennai 29 Pon karthik Chennai 30 Pramod  Chennai 31 Raghunandan  Chennai 32 Raghuvir Reddy Chennai 33 Ram Chennai 34 Ram Prasad. D Chennai 35 Ramesh Azhagar  Chennai 36 Ramesh Kumar  Chennai 37 Ramesh S Chennai 38 Ranjitkumar  Chennai 39 Rohit  Chennai 40 Sandeep M  Chennai 41 Sankar Subramaniam  Chennai 42 Sathish raj Chennai 43 Senthil  Chennai 44 Shankar Sachitanandam Chennai 45 Shyam Sundar Chennai 46 Siddharth Chennai 47 Sreekumar R Chennai 48 Sri Ram Chennai 49 Srivathsan Chennai 50 Sudhir  Chennai 51 Tamal Dey Chennai 52 Vel Muthiah K Chennai 53 Vetri  Chennai 54 Vinay Vasanth Chennai 55 Arun Bangalore 56 Claudy Bangalore 57 Ramki Bangalore 58 Vinod Chandran Bangalore 59 Vinod D Varghese Bangalore 60 Vinod Roy Bangalore 61 Dinesh Nair  Calicut 62 Harshad Karandikar  Calicut 63 Sandeep Unnimadhavan  Calicut 64 Sanket Bhale  Calicut 65 Stalin Sathiran  Calicut 66 Vaibhav Kansal  Calicut 67 Vikash Kumar  Calicut 68 Virapandy  Calicut

Peter.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Peter Van Geit <peter....@gmail.com> wrote:

[Anala]

If you can please attach the pic of the mat... it would be helpful.
Thanks,
Anala

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