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This attempt started off with a frustration out of the fact that we have 
not trekked for entire seven months after our OG/1 in February. I could not analyze why these long delays only happen just after February every year, close to the appraisal time; may be many of us think IT companies evaluate us on the efforts put up only in these months. We did not plan anything as the memories of Bandaje Arbbi /1 were fresh in our minds. We called Narayana Gouda of Bandaje village to check the ground realities and a huge disappointment was in store in for us. He said that the Bandaje stream was over flowing due to recent rains and advised us to postpone our plans at least for three weeks. Our hands were full with workload and could not plan on something else with in the intended dates; we just wanted to elope out of
The team consisted of Vinayaka, Ambareesh, Sashi, Jayaloknath and myself. For Jayaloknath and me this was our second attempt. But I could sense that the excitement was not that high in the team including myself as many people backed out at the last moment and it was raining when we started our journey. We reached Bandaje village only to see that the place wore a monsoon look. We reached Narayana Gouda’s place at around 9.30am, he advised us to return back as it was not possible to cross the stream and also it was raining heavily after evening for a couple of days. We convinced him that we will see for a safe passage to cross the stream and if could not find we will return and started off from Babu Naik’s house.
We
steadily started the ascent, the terrain was slippery but fortunately there were not much leeches compared to our previous trek. We were not mentally prepared for this trek and this proved by the early fatigue signs. We had frequent stops to replenish our energies and after a descent one and half hour trek we reached the smaller stream from here it would take half hour to the Bandaje stream. Small stream was flowing in full force and this seemed the end of our frustrated trek. We collectively decided to return back as there was no point to go up to the Bandaje stream and then return from there. In an hour we descended back to the village and this officially ended our smallest trek ever.
As soon has we left towards Idya the trek start point which now would be our trek exit point it started raining heavily. We managed to reach Idya and caught a local bus to Ujire .Now we were even more frustrated that we were returning back. The conductor of the bus informed about another waterfall close by; but don’t know why we did not listened to him consciously. After reaching Ujire caught another bus to Dharmastala and few minutes later we were lazily roaming the streets of the temple town. We cancelled our return tickets of Sunday night and booked tickets to 
isited a nearby hotel and had a couple of onion dosas and coffee. I returned to the room to take a nap and others visited the temple and came late after finishing their dinner served at the temple as prasadam. We left the room and walked the whole way to new bus stand to board the waiting rajahamsa bus to
A big disappointment was in store for me as I checked a couple of news paper cuttings of different adventure places I have collected for years and by chance got to see a beautiful water fall named Anadka, this was the same water fall the bus conductor had mentioned to us. Anadka is a 365 day water fall and falls from the ridge of 120 feet high. After Idya (the start point of Bandaje Arbbi falls) one need to continue further for 12kms to reach Didipe from here a km away is Anadka village and from there a small trek leads you to this falls. One can board a local bus from Ujire to Didipe or hire an auto from Idya. There are other trekking trials from Ballalarayana Durga Fort to Anadka falls refer map 48 O/8 trekking this route will be an adventure in itself. Also only few of them have planned and manage to reach the base of the Bandaje Arbbi falls which will be another adventurous option. Also there is one more unexplored falls to the East of the Fort mentioned in map, may be the right route of the Y fork near the fort mentioned in Bandaje Arbi /1 will take you there.Know more about Anadka falls @ Treks and travels: Charmadi: Day two – Anadka and Ermayee falls
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Dates: November 18th and 19th 2006
Strength: 11 members (me(Ambareesh), Bhagwat, Deepak, Jayaloknath, Krishna Bhatt, Mudassar Khan, Naveen, Sachin, Shashikanth, Sujan and Vinayaka)
Grade: Moderate to Difficult
About Kodachadri:Kodachadri is in the border of Shivamogga and Dakshinakannada district and it is the highest peak in Shivamogga, about 1343m above sea level. It’s around 380km from
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e and is associated with the killing of the dumb (mooka) demon by the lion-riding Mother Goddess. Dwaja-Sthamba (flag-staff) in front of the temple, is a rare kind of pillar, only three such are available in 
ganese and sulphur contents one associates with modern iron and steel, and with inclusions of only iron oxide and silicate, strongly suggests age-old indigenous methods for making the so-called Adi-vasi (tribal) iron with pure iron ore and wood charcoal. The fact that this pillar has withstood the onslaught of the sun, wind and rain in living memory, and perhaps also of marine air with the Arabian Sea only 40–50 km away, is proof of its high corrosion resistance, even though its surface is not as smooth and clear as that of the Delhi pillar. Acting as a lightning arrester during the rainy season, the top of the pillar seems to have melted frequently and perhaps rapidly solidified through removal of heat by iron from the pillar itself. (This information is by a Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, KREC, Surathkal).
Trek:On Nov 17th night all of us assembled at KSRTC Bus stand to board Kollur Bus.We reached Kollur at 8:30am (schedule was at 6:30am, but due collapse of one old bridge driver took a diversion). We completed all our 
morning tasks at a public toilet (we were lucky, it was clean). Some took bath and rest scheduled it at Hidlumane falls. We had our breakfast in a hotel and after that took a local bus to Marakutaka.After 45 mints we were at our starting point of our trek, i.e., Marakutaka. We started our trek from here at around 10:45am. Normally trekkers for Kodachadri will go through Karakatte, it is around 12km to peak in that route. But they miss out ‘
At 4:30pm we were in 
bed one more small hill behind ‘Peeta’ to conquer more of
is very tricky and thick jungles descend. So we hired a guide (hotel people will arrange for the reasonable price). We left hotel on Karakatte road (mud road) after 5 mints we took left turn for falls. The place where we took left turn was very difficult to remember. Path was not clear and very misguiding; we just went behind the Guide. First one hour was normal descending and typical jungle track, next half hour was very slippery and steep descending. And one more real headache were leaches. Finally at 2:45pm we reached
We all completed this trek with lots of joy and off course this was my first trek with Bangalore ASCENDers. Thanks to all our team members who helped me to succeed.
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