Roadies to Mookanamane falls and Bisle view point

Roadies to Mookanamane falls and Bisle  view point 

We all got geared up for a 2 days and 1 night trip in Bikes.

It was October 12th 2013 , Saturday early morning 4 o clock and we guys (18 members with 10 bikes) decided to go on a long ride in bike .It is about 550km over all trip. 4 bikes started from Electronic City, 3 from Hoskote , 1 from Malleswaram and rest from Vijayanagar. So guys from Electronic City(Vinith,Ravi,Deepu,Punith,Jithu,Raghu,Abhi) met us(Me and Deepu raja) in Malleshwaram.  We headed towards Nelamangala  to catch up rest of the guys. After a 40 mins of ride to Nelamangala we all got merged up with the guys (Dilip,Sumanth,Adith,Sharath,Karthik,Nishanth,Ravi,Rajesh,Ashwin) from Hoskote and Vijayanagar. Atlast we all got together and many were new to us and as usual formalities we got introduced to one another. We all had a sip of tea by chatting few things like rules to be followed whenever the Jackie(Punith) speaks  and other stuffs then started the journey, In the chilled weather all the bikes were on track. Vroomm Vrooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….

After an hour, Vinith’s bike suddenly got turned off on the highway and we stopped at the roadside and and inspected few things but couldn’t make out what exactly went wrong with the bike. Again the bike started up surprisingly without fixing anything. We again continued with the journey and next stop was in some hotel suggested by Sharath in Channarayapatana. But unfortunately that hotel was closed so went to Kamat hotel in NH48. We all were dying out of hunger and we had the breakfast like street doggies. Hotel’s Servicing was horrible and few guys went to self service side of the hotel and had breakfast nicely. Meanwhile we were waiting for Mangalore buns, we saw two buns but it was in next table so not reachable and we dint even try to have that bun ;)

After having breakfast Vinith left early to Hassan to get his bike repaired and we all went thru Hassan bypass and were waiting in Sakaleshpur road for him.

After one and half an hour he came and before we got up and get onto bike one mini local bus gave a choke to Vinith which caused him to come onto sand track and we all started shouting at him. Our next stop was in one place named Balupet, we enquired about the route for Mukkanamane falls but they told that if take right which will lead us to Abbe falls(Madikeri) and we were not interested in it as we had seen it. So we took Sakaleshpur route and carried on with our ride. 

Our next stop was near Manjarabad fort deviating road in Sakaleshpur ghat section.  We took the Manjarabad fort road but dint visit the fort. From here the road was too horrible. We stopped at Hethur for lunch but only one veg hotel and non veg hotel was opened. We all decided to go green and went to veg hotel and ordered 18 meals for parcel, as our plan was to have it in the Mookanamane falls river bank. But unfortunately no meals was there for 18 members so they started to cook for us after taking our order (Once you cross Sakaleshpur then in almost all the places you have to wait until they cook if you are going 10+ ppl).  So we waited they for around 2 hours for lunch, time was already near to 4pm. We got food packed and headed towards the falls in terribly worst road.

 Finally we got the small steep mud road which takes us to waterfall and all our bikes got queued up and began to ride it(Guys if you plan to visit this place in bike park it in the road side and go by walk). As it is rainy reason bikes were skidding  heavily. All went fine with till some point and it got more steeper and it was very much riskier to ride it beyond that point but I thought of taking the risk and asked my pillion Raghu to got down and went thru. By looking at me 2 more riders took a chance Ravi and Vinith. We successfully rode it with out any mess and parked the bikes almost near falls rest parked the bikes at this point.

 Now all the guys were too hungry and waiting to reach the falls and start having the food. Twist was that small trek was to be done to reach the falls by carrying their helmet & food. We reached the falls and that nature’s beauty made us to forget our hunger and we immediatedly jumped into the river and played for sometime and again food came to our mind and we had food on the river bank and started from there.

Now the challenge was to ride the bike up the hill. We discussed about it and thought of giving ten minutes gap for each bike so that if anything goes wrong let that be with a single rider and that wouldn’t affect the one who is coming behind. Vinith went on first with his bullet and failed on the 1^st attempt and again came back and with the help of few of our guys he reached the place where other bikes were parked followed by Ravi. Now its my turn with pulsar 220cc, things went fine but at one part bikes back wheel got stuck on mud and somehow I managed to balance the bike and guys helped me too take out the back wheel and we all stopped on the roadside and started to plan about the next destination. Time was already 6pm and it was getting dark and also it started to rain slowly. While going we had seen a lake surrounded by Grassland and thought of putting the tents there and went to that place.

 We had a look around the place where the land should be flat so that after putting the tents it will easy for us to sleep. Also place should be covered so that the wind will be less else which makes empty tent more stable. Few people were there near the lake so when we asked them about that is this place safe for putting tents, they told here Elephants will be keep on coming as the lake is present. I saw a nice place to pitch the tents but it was a graveyard. So we selected the grassland which was opposite to graveyard and started to put on the tents, it was already 6:30pm and rain was getting heavier slowly. In a hurry which pitched all the tents(Three T3 tents and two T2 tents).

 Two of the local residents came in bike and by looking at us they told that the place in which we had pitched the tents was also graveyard and we have travelled a long distance in bike which made us very tired and was ready to sleep on graveyard itself.  One among those two was the real hero Ananda Gowda(local resident) without him that night would gone for a toss. He showed us a superb place to keep the tents and he took us to one home and asked them to prepare food for us. We ordered the meals by 7pm and he asked us to collect by 9pm. Food costs too less in this region. Now we needed some other stuffs. For that also Gowdru came with us in bike for around 20kms to get us the stuffs.

Now the time is 9’o clock. Jithu and Dilip went to get the food and Gowdru arranged the firewoods and gave us the kerosene to put camp fire in front the tents. He only lit the camp fire and food came by that rain got heavier. Everyone got into the tents and those who were having stuffs(10) got into one T3 tent. In that congested place we all had the stuffs were enjoying that with ultimate killing dialogues from Jackie and rain stopped again we lit back the camp fire, had food.

 Everyone went to sleep in the tent soon after having the food except me,vinith,ravi,deepu,jithu and nishanth. We played the music in our smartphones and started dance around the camp fire. By 11:30 we also got into our tents and I was not getting sleep so was shouting and making fun for a while and slept off.

Sunday Morning, 7am

“Histories repeat again and again" came to my mind when I took a water bottle and went for morning body relief programme. It was continuously raining and we all dint care about it, carried on with our activities by getting wet. Now 1^st victim for leach was Karthik and slowly almost everyone got the bite from leaches. We packed the tents and told thanks and good bye to our Anand gowda and started towards the Bisle view point, again the road was the same old worst thing to be rode on.  We reached the Bisle ghat view point. View point itself was covered by clouds and we were standing inside the clouds and we had no chance to see the mountain valleys and the waterfalls on them. After 20 mins, clouds started to clear up slowly which made us to have a look at the Valleys and took some snaps and thought of going to Kukke Subramanya which was only 25kms from there. But the road was so irritating that getting back to Bangalore was a big task so we skipped it.

We started back to Bangalore. All of us thought of taking one more road in athihalli instead of going back in same road. This road was better than that route and also it saved us around 50kms which connects us to Shanivarasanthe. Our next pit stop was Holenarasipura. Few of the guys took Mysore road instead of joining the Bangalore bypass which made us to wait for almost one hour, it was bit confusing for me as well to take which route takes us to reach Bangalore highway but I kept asking for the routes with the localites. Guys went in Mysore road took a U turn and joined us. We all started to ride again and our next stop was Chennarayapatana where we had tea and other snacks.

Finally our trip was getting ended up before we needed to take group photo so went onto the nearby lay bye and parked all our 10 bikes and we sat on road and took snaps.  All got dispatched after that and went back to their home.