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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Tikona : Getting Lost

http://www.geocities.com/ranjit_mulye/treks/tikona.html?200723
Was browsing through this site and reminded me of my ventures to tung-tikona and peth
the author here talks of getting lost and we had exactly the same experience at both the places. In fact at the Peth fort we underestimated the "complexity" of finding the right path and started ascending late in the evening - 4:00pm with some of my watumull colleagues (Santosh, Kimpal) and while half the way to top got lost. It started getting pretty dark and some of us got literally scared and distressed with the thought that we will have to spend the night amidst of the forest. We started calling villagers and pleading for help - in fact Santosh actually offered money and insisted they come right at the spot where he was.. "dont you want the money.. come and pick me up from right where i am".. :-)). We finally got through with the help of the villager late at night and then laughed a lot in the morning at the silly incident and when we got to know how simple the route to the fort was