Gabbar, Ramnagar and Hrithik Roshan

I watched "Lakshya" few weeks ago and decided to emulate Hrithik Roshan. Not the "main aisa kyon hoon" part (has been through that phase lot of times), but the intense rock climbing bit shown in the end. There is a nice organization by the name "Bangalore Mountaineering Club", which organizes lot of outdoor trips every week. The prices are pretty reasonable and a great way to go out as soon as your friends start ignoring you.

So we decided to go for rock climbing trip organized in Ramnagar, where Sholay was shot. Hence the trip was filled with numerous moments, where people hanging from the cliff, trying to look cool, praying to the god/guide, would shout "kitne aadmi the". All in all trip was real fun with four different activities. We started with rappelling down a cliff. Then moved on to Chimney Climbing, which was by far the most exciting part of the trip. The idea here is to climb two perfectly vertical parallel cliffs close to each other. It takes lot of shoulder and leg strength, courage and firm believe in Jackie Chan.

After lunch we went for river crossing on some meadows. The lack of river didn't curb our enthusiasm and we crossed the fictional river both on the upward as well as downward rope. The last part of trip was a small trek to board the bus back to Bangalore. The trip was fun, but would have been more interesting if it had some instructions about how to setup things and tie knots etc..

Also other thing which annoyed us was the garbage thrown around on trails. It seems we exemplify the parasite nature of human beings mentioned by Mr. Smith (popularly known as Agent Smith) in Matrix. I would like to point out few things here.

1. Don't throw polythene bags, instead if u see one, pick it up and use as a trash for yourself.
2. Inspite of the enormous amount of bacteria in this world, the "bio-degradable" stuff you throw doesn't decompose quickly and destroys the beauty of the place.
3. Do not pee ON THE trail. By now even animals can figure out that it is a special section. Given your belief that you belong to higher intelligence, you may as well try.
4. Don't write anything on the trees etc.. I understand that paper is made from trees , but that is not in anyway "going closer to the nature".

I hope to see some dramatic changes in junta's behaviour after this post :P.