Nagala Western Combo, Sep 11-12 (N/72) - prep email for participants

[Peter Van Geit]

Please read carefully to ensure a smooth proceeding this weekend

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

  Aravind - 9283155706

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

3. Sign disclaimer form and return to organizer

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

Shoot an email to "alex.fran...@gmail.com" after the transfer.

Further reading

http://groups.google.co.in/group/sachennaitrekkingclub/web/whats-a-ctc-trek http://groups.google.co.in/group/sachennaitrekkingclub/web/what-to-carry-during-a-trek http://groups.google.co.in/group/sachennaitrekkingclub/web/do-s-and-dont-s-during-a-trek?hl=en-GB&pli=1

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

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Peter Van Geit
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[Peter Van Geit]

Looks like we are currently running short of transportation - can a few more members bring along a car or bike to accommodate everyone?

Thank u,

Peter