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Duke's Nose 08 August 2010

Duke's Nose 08 August 201This was one of most happening treks, so many participants!!!


Shripad's Shirdiwale, pardesi pardesi & Tejal's Tu agar from Raaz rocked the train journey in morning. Wanderer's legacy songs like Suragini, dehachi tijori remix, panyamadhe killa remix were the highlights of this journey.

Ajit had organized for a small felicitation of pillars of wanderer's on the occassion of 250th Trek after the lunch & Harshad, you called at the right time.

Shailesh, Pritam, Lucky, Abhay, Omkar were awarded a cadbury each which none of them shared with me. :-(

Shailesh's camera met with an accident on the way to Mandakini fall & some guy's cell fell off the bridge near Tata's helipad were the hitchs & as always Ajit & Sachin were the Saviors. :-(((

Like every year, Diwadkar's wadapav stall on Platform 2 on Lonavala Station sold us more than a 100 Wadapavs and almost same number of tea cups.

Local journey to Pune was a crowded experience, thanks to Ajit, Omkar, Pritam & Shantanu, who made it better.

For a change, Gauri - Shantanu's wife had come along with her sister. So we can definitely expect few more wanderers for our next treks.

We missed Manjiri, Rohini, Shrutika, Tanmay Pendse, Pushkar, Omkar (OD), Lijo, Dr. Sirdesai & Sarthak.

This is it of Duke's Nose trek for you & it was very nice of you to call, and we all felt graced by your virtual presence.0
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