6 in the morning. The promise of wake up calls couldn't be kept due to the fickle mobile network. But somehow we all (27 of us) were inside the 22 seater and on our way towards Madikere. Dancing in the bus being common we EC students of SJCE started a mini Q&A session where of course most of the questions were on crushes, pyaar, dosti etc.
Few secrets revealed, maybe a few were disappointed or a few delighted, but by the time 27 people were fired at (by Q's) we had reached Pushpagiri (after a breakfast stop).
Now started one of the best treks i have ever been to. The forest was amazingly pretty. Green..... Green everywhere! Even the rocks were moss covered. The barks of the trees too were overgrown by ferns. The little sunlight that filtered through too had taken on a tinge of green as though to "blend in". Such dense trees, few even had mushrooms growing on them, they just reminded me of Forks, the "Twilight" place.
Most of the times, stumbling along alone I felt like i was in the most beautiful dream ever. A reality so breath taking I didn't want to blink my eyes out the fear of the moments i would lose if i did.
Maybe the unadulterated forest with its barely there track inspired the few of us who reached a huge rock covered with water which in the shining sun, looked like ice. With a severe pang we realised that the 2 kms left to the peak would take us an hour more, the hour which we didn't have since our friends were waiting down.
It felt almost like a physical ache when it dawned that on 13th September at least the peak was not gonna be mine. I had never felt so before, had not missed some'thing' so much. The every step we came down all my mind could think of was that the peak was somewhere up there amidst the clouds and 'I' was moving away from it. The meadow of Forks was waiting for me but.....
The trek down got over a little too soon for me with the guys talking about Clijsters, Nadal, Federer, Potro, clay, grass and even Pete Sampras. Finally reaching the gang which was there down i kept and still occasionally keep slipping back to the glowing green small place surrounded by trees and find myself feeling just as amazed as i did the first time i saw it.
