Micro-Trek at Muttatti

Saturday the 21st of January 2006, we (1st photograph from left to right: Chitra, Rekha, Neha, Lokesh, Chandan, Gururaj/Gunda, Swetha) left for a trek at Mutatti a nice place little beyond Kanakapura. The journey was about 3.5 hours and we reached the place at around 12 in the afternoon. After getting down from the vehicle we straight away headed to the river. We had to cross this one inorder to begin our trek. We took the coracle to get to the other side of the river. After we reached the other side of that really shallow river we straight away headed for the tiniest peak there to begin our 'adventure'. The trek time (which included the rest time people insisted on taking ) one way was about 35 minutes :-). We stopped at the peak for about 1o minutes or so and on realizing that reaching the summit didn't mean much to most of the people, we began our descent from the other side of the hill. We initially tried to follow the sound of the water mistaking it to be a small version of a waterfall. Only after we finished climbing down the hill we realized that there was no such thing. It was only water hitting the rocks. The river bed was actually just rocks. We were all sitting on the tiny rocks in the river and I had been thinking about descending into the water and I happened to slip and fall into the water. That was the 2nd time that I slipped and fell into the water that day. I spent some time in the water like a Hippo and one by one everyone decided to do the same, the guys I mean. After I thought I had enough and had slipped and fallen into the water for the 5th time barely missing my face (hitting the rocks) on a couple of occasions and hurting my left foot badly, I came out :).

After this we had lunch and left the place at 1630 hrs.