Kulang gad
Just after crossing the Thal Ghat (from Kasara to Igatpuri), you are welcomed with some huge hills on the eastern side including the highest peak of Maharashtra – Kalsubai hill. There are some noteworthy trekking destinations in this range like Ratangad, Bhairavgad, Pabargad, Ghanchakkar hill etc. We, however, chose to visit Kulang gad – offering highest NET CLIMB in the entire Sahyadri range. Settled winter was just the perfect weather and trekking company was equally good. 20-25 km journey to Ambewadi from Igatpuri and then a 4-4.5 hr trek to a massive hill fort of Kulang gad was a testing but enjoyable time indeed. I enjoyed it as much as my last visit to this fort back in 2003 🙂 .
(Sunny, clear days with minimum recorded temp of 9.9 deg C in the night)
Place :- Kulang gad fort
District :- Ahmadnagar
Height from MSL :- 4870 ft
Difficulty level :- Moderate to tough
Date :- 24th, 25th Dec 2011
Route :- Kalyan – Kasara – Igatpuri – Ambewadi (Base village) – Kulang gad top
Members :-
- Atul Kolhe
- Baliram Kakde
- Dinesh Kothari
- Harish Chandak
- Kawaljeet singh
- Pravin Subramanian
- Vijay Buradkar
- Ulhas Bhabal
- Abhijit Avalaskar
The trek was superb… bit tough for me but travelling with good friends is always a fun.
The photos are very nice…
Comment by Atul Kolhe — December 28, 2011 @ 9:00 am
Hi Abhi ,
Must be wonderfully chilly trek . What kind of gear did you took ?. How did you measure the accurate temperature ?.
Beautiful images , specially sunrise snaps .
Manoj Binhani
Comment by Manoj — December 28, 2011 @ 9:15 am
Yes Manoj Sir…it was a great trek. Temp was recorded using Digital hygrometer + thermometer 🙂 (9.9 Deg C, Humidity – 30%)
Comment by Abhijit — December 28, 2011 @ 11:05 am
Nice pics Abhi. What is the difficulty level of this trek ? Medium?
Comment by Animish — December 28, 2011 @ 9:42 am
Animish, Thanks ! Difficulty level is moderate to tough (definitely tough in monsoon :-)).
And I need to update this difficulty rating on our site deepabhi.tripod.com :-).
Comment by Abhijit — December 28, 2011 @ 11:02 am
Superb pics Abhi…. Especially the last one. Excellent job.
By God’s grace same time, same place and I got chance to meet your nice group at Kulang Gad.
Keep It up.
Comment by Chetan — December 28, 2011 @ 10:00 am
Very nice pics abhi !! Really a nice memorable trek after long time 🙂
Comment by Harish — December 28, 2011 @ 10:34 am
I missed the trek and all fun too.. but the photographs r soooooo live that it makes me feel as if am visiting this place in person. 🙂 Beautiful…
Comment by Dhanashri Avalaskar — December 28, 2011 @ 4:59 pm
Hi Abhijit,
Excellent snaps…… It refreshed my beautiful memories of Kulang-gad…
Keep it up…. 🙂
Comment by Atul Dhamorikar — December 29, 2011 @ 4:56 pm
Amazing snaps dude ! I always live the trek through ur snaps. U refreshed the memories of my Kulang visit.
Comment by Kishore Jahagirdar — December 29, 2011 @ 6:29 pm
Hey dude,
Its really good time to have with your group……I hope you remember all of us.Your snaps are really good one.Hope to be in touch.
Comment by Rohit Kashid — December 29, 2011 @ 7:09 pm
The Photo with Sun rays Coming in through the cave roof is a materpiece ,it almost looks like a painting ( u should have removed the plastic waste lying there)
Comment by Dr Prasen Thakur — December 30, 2011 @ 10:27 am
Dear Abhijit
Photos are just beautiful !
I have never seen a pics like this.
Feeling very very pleasant after seeing all of those !
God bless you and i hope to see you many of such soon !
Comment by Kathashree — February 19, 2012 @ 12:39 pm
Hi,
Me and my friends are planning to go to Kulng in Mid june … do you have any contacts of jeep drivers who would provide transport from Kasara to Ambewadi ..
Thanks for your help
Rahul
Comment by Rahul — May 29, 2012 @ 6:48 pm