One day Tarun sir told me that lets arrange a trip for a Team and we decided to go to the Rajgad. We decided to stay on Saturday Night on Rajgad and return on Sunday morning. We have started arrangements for trip like Paratha for a dinner, Things that need to make a TEA.We decided to take a Tent.We made the list of team members.We was 11 people.On friday we decided not to take a Tent and sleep on the open ground.
The Day (Saturaday) of trip came and we were ready to take off toward Rajgad with Parathas,Kit which require to prepare a Tea, First Aid box, Sataranji etc. We took 1 CAR and 3 BIKES and started the journey at 3.30 from Pune to Rajgad(MAHARASHTRA). The distance was 60 km and from Katraj it is exactly 50 km. we went till nasarapur by NH4 and took right turn for a FORT.NH4 was very good with 4 len Trak , Nasarapur to rajgad was also good (In Hindi thik thak). We parked the vehicals in the village named GUNJAVANE, where there is a offcial parking for vehicals. We started to climb the fort at around 5.15 , I had combined my bag with Abhijits bag, and i told him that i will took it on the top.My bag contains the 5.30Ltr of water and 3/4 blankets(chadder, sataranji) for sleeping . In this trek I made 1 change that i put burmuda instead of Jeans to climb which help me a lot for climbing.
Tarun Sir took a lead and went very fast on the fort with the Arvind and sandip singh. i was following
them alone as most of the team was struggling at initial stages. I coved half distance and decided to wait for whole team. after 20 min. wait , i met to the team and started again. As sun was going down behind the fort i was thinking that we need to take help of torch but luckily we reached at right time .Sandip Sukhija and Suchita has done a very good job of completing the climb as they don't have such experience. Last stage of the climbing was very straight (like climbing on a shidi).Tarun Sir welcomed us on a fort,we did small photo session and went further towards a lake.
We found 1 chul near and our cooking get started , we collected the wooden sticks and fired the chul and started making a Tea , everyone participated in this activity. It was great experiance of making a tea.After taking a tea we started some playing game (Hindi ganyachya bhendya), we enjoied lot,the surprising thing is that Pankaj sir also singing.Vitthal was with his Diwali Faral(Chakali, chivada and Bhakarvadi) its quality was very good. By passing some time we started to prepare for dinner (Alu paratha , lonache and dahi). We put Tava on chul and started to hit the parathas.Suchita did a good job of hitting parathas on tava (Fry Pan).We enjoied parathas a lot with the Darkness.
After the lunch the question arise "Where to Sleep? " with Bhushan , I went to search mission , but we
failed to get some safe space which will protect us from cold and wind as ,many groups are already stayed there.So we decided to sleep there only (near a chul where we made tea). It was become very difficult to sleep there as we don't have enough blankets. It was our biggest mistake and we all badly suffered with cold waves. No one sleep well, vitthal woke up at 4.00 and with him whole team woke up as no one able to sleep due to cold waves, vitthal, sandip , abhijit again fired the chul and took some heat from the fire.After that around 4.30 all again tried to sleep. At 6.15 me and Tarun sir woke up. We started to make a Tea as pankaj sir and sandeep went to collect some wooden sticks to fire.
We made our morning tea there. then sandip and some other ate the paratha's . After that we were with the 1 and 1/2 ltr. milk, so we decided to drink a hot milk , so again we heated the milk and all enjoied the milk.
Pankaj sir and I went to clean pot and fry pan near a lake, where i found small amount of plastic bottles, and some plastic things into the lake, which we removed using a pot (patele).From that our clean up mission started .
We started out return journey . We started to collect plastic, empty gutakha packets, chocalate wrappers which was thrown by the tourist people who came to see the fort, Every team member was with the plastic bag and we was collect oll plastic waste which we found in our route which includes a lot of bottles also. we have collected lot of plastic.
In the journey one old women asked our Tarun sir ,"Why are you collecting this? " I like the answer
given by Tarun sir , which was very simple , The answer was "This is my home and i want to clean it."
Finally we put that whole kachara in the Tarun sir's car to recycle it into the pune.
And we left the RAJGAD and reached to our home(pune) around 11.30 a.m.(Sunday)
what I noticed is --
We all worked as a whole Team ,as a one family.
our co-ordination was good , both 4 vehicle's were reached on right time , no mismatch occured
We enjoyed a lot and learn a lot.
Experienced the importance of HOME(Makan) and the blankets.
We took large food quantity ,next time we will took it carefully so that excess of food should not occur.
We reached late on the fort so we failed to see the fort ,it can get avoided if we started at 2.00 instead of 3.30.
Suchita's decision to come for a trek was courageous.
Finally we finished the Trek SUCCESSFULLY
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