Hi All,
Destination: Bheemeshwari (Off Kanakpura Road)
Round Trip: 161 Kilometers (Konankunte Cross to Destination and back)
Route Map: http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=zlansssgeskcvbws&referrer=trackList
Photos: http://picasaweb.google.co.in/harishaksbhat/19thSeptember2010RideTowardsBheemeshwariCauveryFishingCampNMuttati#
Number of riders: 3
Bikes used:
Deepan, Nitin = Trek 7100 Hybrid bikes.
Me = Merida MTB bike.
Night before the ride: Couple of ous (Deepan, Harsha , Naveen and Me ) decided to go to this ride on Sunday morning at 5।30AM from Merida Junction and I was suppose to join them at Konankunte Cross at 5.40AM. Had to go to the office on Saturday night so prepared the necessary items for ride before I left to the office. As we had a party in our office and I could not attend it because of personal reasons I stated back and took care of my process while other came back from the party. Naveen had given his bike to servicing and couldn’t get it back in time to join our ride, so we were just 3 off 4 now.
Ride day: Came back to home from office at 5।00 AM and was getting ready, received a message from Harsha stating “he would not be able to join because of the back pain”. I called Deepan and informed the same and shifted the initial meeting place to Konankunte Cross as Harsha and Naveen would not be joining us. Deepan informed me that another rider Nitin would join us at Konankunte Cross at 5.45AM. Took a bath and went to Konankunte Cross at 5.30AM and saw Deepan already at the point. Waiting for few minutes and saw Nitin joined us at exactly 5.45AM. We left Konankunte Cross to Kanakpura via Somanahalli, Harohalli covering a distance of 45.9 Kms from my place and reached Kanakpura around 7.30 AM. Had breakfast in Kanakpura and meet bunch of motorcycle rider riding towards Basavanbetta right off Halaguru. Left Kanakpura and reached Sathanur at 8.45AM. Nitin and me waited for Deepan to catch up and left towards Halaguru which was 11kms from Sathanur. Reached the cross in Halaguru where we were supposed to take a right towards Bheemeshwari at 9.30AM. Road to Bheemeshwari from Halaguru is excellent and covered with greener (Muttati Forest ) , during our ride to Bheemeshwari we came across elephant dung on the road and couple of spotted dears “ couldn’t take the snap as they were out of sight very quickly” and there are couple of steep descent . Reached Bheemeshwari (Cauvery fishing camp) at 10.40 AM and there was nothing but the Cauvery Fishing Camp in the middle of the forest, which needs an advance booking before coming to the venue. Took a photo of the entrance for documentation purpose and had couple of apricot brought by Deepan and were speaking to the gate keeper about the animals in the forest. Came to know that there are Black bear, Cheetah, Elephants, Spotted Dear, Peacocks and Monkeys in the forest. Knowing that we rode towards Muttati which is 6 kms away from this jungle resorts. Reached Muttati at 11.15AM and saw there were many people on the banks of the river and the water color had turned to green because of the contamination done by the visitors, few people were cooking the launch on the banks of the river. Stayed there for few minutes eating apricots and did not feel like getting into the water because of its pollution. Went to a store and drink thumbs up while Deepan and Nitin had some tea, bananas. Refilled our water bottles with water again as it was getting hotter and left towards Sathanur which was said to be around 18 kms from Muttati.
Riding back from Muttati to Sathanur was like hell as Sun was above our heads and it very steep climbs made the ride very difficult “ personal I felt climbing Nandi hills was easy” । Sun was laughing at us when every we took shelter under a tree shade and was angry again the next moment as we started to peddle. At last we reached Sathanur junction were one road lead to Mekedatu and other one to Kanakpura road. We refilled our water bottles again and it was 12.50PM already so we thought we can go to Kanakpura and have our launch. After coming to Kanakpura Main road Sun was not that effective so I rode ahead of our team and crossed Kanakpura as well and did not feel hungry but I was feeling sleepy because of the sleepless night before the ride as I was working. Deepan called me and informed me that he and Nitin would have launch at Kanakpura as they were very hungry. I continued riding towards Bangalore with few stops to eat banana and drink tinder coconut.
Finally, reached home at 3.50 PM and had bath and felt sleepy again. Eat a fruit and slept as my knees very hurting badly because of the climbs back all the way from Muttati to Bangalore.
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