Trek Musings!!

• Tell your folks at home that you going for the walk in the Ghats, do not give any further details. It’s better for your future trek assignments.
• A day before you off to trek learn how to slide!!! You should not be regretting, not having four legs
• Again, a day before the trek venture to the terrace of the tallest building in your vicinity and look down, and start hallucinating. Imagine trees, grasses and flowers around you and straight fall. It helps in conquering your height fears up to 300 feet.
• A day before – visit some random sites and pick up some random names and call it movies – for E.g. Mangruvu Biwaraba! And also expect people to enact it.
• Listen to your instinct, if you feel its going to be hot – then it is going to be hot.
• Size and Sun both matters.
• When you lie down, smell the air…if it’s a foul smell emanating check for shit around, you never know you might me lying on dog shit. Cow dung is still fine!!
• If you want to know how it feels like to be in Sahara, wear black t-shirts!!! Leave your common sense at home.
• Right in the middle of the trek – expect people to call up and check with you, “so can you give me a one line quote on Quarter life crisis”.
• Cell phones should be barred from Treks – suddenly out of nowhere, you can listen to Enrique, pussy cat dolls and apna Kumar Sanu.
• Expect casualties every 500 mtrs.
• Carry binoculars, so that the casualties down can understand why the bags are being thrown mid air
• Play the game – whose fall makes the loudest sound – there will be surprises.
• The Wibs bread and Amul Butter which is the least expected food in our normal life– is looked up as Biryani some 2500 feet above.
• Please leave the Nike, Reebok, Levis shoes behind – Go to Linking road and get a pair of cheap 150 bucks sandals, it works better!!
• Don’t sing songs if you are scared of people, you will have to meet them tomorrow.
• Do not wear flowery shorts!!! The people are ruthless!!
• Have fun at the expense of section 377. Fun only refers to singing songs.
• Know your destination well enough – you might end up going somewhere else.
• After the trek is over - visit a Shivaji statue and wonder “Kaise boss Kaise”