Singhgad Trek Report-1

I planned to go for trekking on this weekend but suddenly I had to go to my hometown for some urgent reason. I was not sure about my availability still Saturday afternoon but the great weather around tempted me to cut my stay at home and join my friends in Pune for trek to Singhgad. After 16 hours journey in one day (Mumbai –Home- Pune) I reached Pune on Saturday night and confirm that I will be there on next day. As decided by the trek group (total 7 members which comprises of my SPANDAN friends and COEP juniors) I reached at the bus stop near PMC around 7.30 am and found that nobody was there. The weather outside was very pleasant with intermittent rain showers. I waited till 8.00 am and when this junta came up we boarded a bus for Singhgad. We reached at Singhgad around 9.00 am and a heavy rain welcomed us. A view of fort engulfed in clouds of fog was just fascinating. We halted there in a food stall for Chai and Vadapav. Around 10am we were ready to start our journey There are 2 paths which leads you to the top of the fort, the longer one (around 8 km) is built for the vehicles and the other one is short (nearly 3 km) but tough to travel in rainy days. We choose the later one. There was continuous raining since we started climbing the slope. As we reached up merely 800 m, the raining ceased for a while and we got a clear view of the surroundings. The two waterfalls coming down from the top of a hill/fort were great to view. Still the top of the fort was not yet viewable and as it was my first time to this place it was really difficult to estimate the height. Just when I managed to shot 2 snaps it started raining again. We resumed our trek. As I was traveling for the last 2 days and didn’t had enough rest, I started feeling low and was barely able to balance myself. So we decided to halt at one of the stalls on the way. The menu available was Chai, limejuice and buttermilk. I opted for the lemon juice hoping that it will give some energy to me.