Monday, August 3, 2015. Rained at night a few times but we were well protected by our tents. So here is what I found useful for if backpack and then daypack.

We had been walking through the slush for over five hours now. Wading would have been the ideal word. A sudden spell of bizarre weather had turned the undulating verdant green hills into a booby trap. Bizarre weather! So what else would you expect in a place which has an annual rainfall of around 7000 mm in the monsoon season? The Kudremukh sanctuary stretches into the districts of Udupi, Uttara Kannada and Chikmagalur and gets its name from its .