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Originally Posted by Baburajs
By around 9.50 people from the camp joined us with Srinivas . All of us locked the hubs and were ready to go. After the customary cautions and briefing we entered the TRAIL
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This is what welcomed us in to the trail .
It was narrow and as you can see the rocks were protruding dangerously and was challeging the drivers to take their vehicles without damaging. In some places there was no road at all as you can see below . Swastik vijay spotted for us and we get through these hazards without much problem. I was using a bit clutch here which was not required and Vijay mentioned it to me. Some more twists and turns and dips and we reach here.
The photos dont do justice to the dip here as always. The vehicles were half driven , half slid to the plain below and then we had an incline with loose mud. One by one all vehicles did this in their varying styles , Some of them zooming and jumping , some of them crawling and some of them sleep walked (sleep drove) through this.
Thats when people wanted to wash thier dirty tyres and underbody in the lake near by . Spidey took the onus of checking out the depth and the stickiness in the lake bed and ventured in to the waters. It slowly guided through the lake bed and found that there is deep slush in the far end , so turned to the left and came out. Then it was like children playing in water. One by one each of the vehicle tried to wade through the water. In between Rajesh tried to go through the same trail which spidey had went and got stuck in the slush. It may be because of the added weight of his 540 or because he went directly to the place where there is maximum slush. But stuck he was royally. I tried to tow him out with my 340 with my brand new tow rope but without any success. The only sucess I got was in drenching my tow rope is slush. The jeep didnt budge. Then they tried with the scorpio . It could move the 540 to an extent but couldnt pull it out. Then every one turned to the ultimate rescuer, Swastik Viji with the Winch. Even using a winch it was difficult because the terrain was slippery with water and grass and Vijays jeep was being pulled towards the slush . Then we found a position where we can anchor the Jeep and using the winch we pulled the 540 out. We had exhausted 45 minutes by then
In between the BILLI (Willies with Baleno Engine) and Godzilla (Scorpio with Mudzilla) tried going through the water and came through without any problems. I feel Godzilla tried to go in a little deeper in the lake and water went gushing in to the vehicle. When it was coming out of the water it was as beautiful as the film shots where the heroin is coming after a dip in sea ( a la halle berry in bond movie) . It was a sight to be seen with the water gushing out of all openings .
After the bath we moved to next place through a dip witha left turn , crossed a stream and then had the NIMBOOZ break . Contd....
Last edited by Baburajs : 17th November 2009 at 18:30.
Reason: Added a new image
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