I believe in one thing that one can enjoy
life when a person can push limits of his capability. People generally call
such kind of person crazy. I don’t mind people calling me crazy because I enjoy
what I do. Recently, we did a crazy thing.
It is winters and I and my friends decided
to go for camping. I am not talking about the camping which people from
corporate or IT sector do just to satisfy them which is even not close to any
kind of camping. I am talking about hardcore camping.
We purchased map of the local region, and
found a very favorable place in a forest reserve. The place which we selected
as camping site was full of forest and wild animals, especially snakes. It was
located on a long mountain ridge. A small river passing through a village which
was not very far from the camping site.
The first day we reached the camping site,
it was a treat to watch the greenery. We walked for almost three kilometers
up-slope to reach our camping location. It was full of vegetation, and from our
camp location we were able to see the town in front of us. So far but yet so
close to civilization. This sight was enough for us to see the difference in
two living style. We put our bags down, and cleared some vegetation to make
place to lay our tents. I don’t prefer tents, as I prefer to sleep with the
open sky and stars above me. I helped them to lay down the tent.
After that we did some recce of the place,
to know about the surrounding. Approx. a kilometer away we decided to keep our
yellow area. Yellow area is symbolic to the place where we will shit. Then at
our camp location we created a small tree house, so that in case of any attack
by wild animal, we can climb up and take shelter. We had packed lunch for the
first day, so we had wonderful lunch followed by we dug snake pits around our
sleeping area.
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| The fire giving us warmth in chilling cold |
In night, we collected some dry wood, and
burnt them to utilize the heat to fight the cold temperature. I slept under the
stars. The next day, we started walking along the river to discover new things.
It was beautiful place, surrounded by mountain ridge line, with attractive
birds, and some farming land around the place. We did fishing, which ultimately
became our lunch. In night, I sat with my friend, and we were watching the civilization
far from us, and sharing our past memories and having good laugh about that. The
last day, we packed everything, but this time we had decided not to go by bus,
train, car or any vehicle, but we will run to the town. We were 60kms away from
our town. We had a map with us, one liter of water, and chocolates enough to
keep us alive for those sixty kilometers. Our backpack weight was almost thirty
kilograms which we had to carry with us. We were 18 friends, planning something
extraordinarily.
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| Two Small kids which we met during our exploration. Both are brothers and their father is a carpenter |
There is a saying among us ‘everything is
mental’. We knew that if we are mentally strong, then we can travel sixty
kilometers despite any odds. It was foolishness to run in day, because we will
get dehydrated easily, so we decided to start as soon as the sun sets down.
We ate lunch, drank some water, few of us
slept, few of us started chatting with each other. We were relaxed about our
crazy plan but at the same time we were excited to complete it. Here our wait
started for the extraordinary adventure.
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