The bhataktiatma : Travelogue of a wandering soul

Since last year we sahyadri trek members have been planning to do a himalayan trek together, rather we all were waiting for opportunity to do a himalayan trek with Ajay kaka.                                     Ajay kaka has lead many expeditions in his 30-40 yrs trekking career  ( he has completed his basic and advance mountaineering course even before we were born ) , his stories always inspire us , its always a great privilege to trek with him and doing a himalayan trek with him is like attending the trekking institution , kaka came up with the idea of doing pin parvati pass trek which is not technical climb but difficult enough to challenge ourselves. Some of us were trekking outside sahyadri for the first time hence ajay kaka wisely selected this trek considering ease of access to manali in case of emergency situations. Within a week or so we received 11 confirmations ,1 cancellation...

 As a preparation for our himalayan trek in september Dhamdhere kaka wanted to plan treks which will prepare us for those long walks in the himalayan regions , this trek was the first of those many to come. Here is the photo blog of the same. Baleshwar temple resembling ramsey's movie setups at night , baeleshwar is a temple on hill top about 20 kms from sangamner towards nashik  We had motths and insects for the company in the temple Waghoba - a village god resembling tiger , on the way to pemgiri from baleshwar the cave  Huge yeloshi waterfall today is without a drop of water , monsoons here have not made even  a guest appearance in this part  on way to pemgiri from yeloshi Descending the payardara - Payar means step in marathi , payardara has manmade steps to facilitate the movement manmade payardara ladder on the pemgiri fort , while ascending we took the route from the front of the fort , this one at the back...