Torna Trek last year - Old Pick

A little background : Prachandagadh or Torna. By conquiring this fort Shivaji Maharaj included the first fort into the Hindavi Swarajya account (?) . (Swarajya Toran)


Torna is close to Pune with Velhe goan a place of Taluka at its base. Velhe has a a court, Tehasil office, and I was surprised to see all these in such a small village. We had breakfast at Nasarapur - place 20km before Velhe. I am sure Sandy will never forget this breakfast for years to come or at least whenever he will visit Torna or Rajgadh.


I parked my bike at the Ashram Shala at Velhe, kept part of the luggage with the superitendent of the Ashram shala. Then Sandy and I started trekking in this route. Initially the way looked all dried as you can see in the pic and it was also dehydrating but we have taken water bottles along with so it wasn't the issue.





It is just at the start of the climbing up. We were accompanied by the group of 3-4 local people and they were easily climbing as it was a daily route for them. A young girl from that group guided us how to climb and later we never seen that group again even when we returned to the base.



Sandy tried some of his photography skills.
Again this time also I was not expecting such reasonble quality picture to be captured by mobile camera.

Budhala Machi a trailing arm of Torna and a opening for the way (sond) coming from Rajgadh.Earlier ppl used to run between Rajgadh and Torna with this way. and it was considered to be the smoothest one.

Zunzar machi. Real pleasure to look around from this place. Breath deep at this place and you will realize the relaxation and some kind of larger than life stuff ;-) yeah but that is true, some kind of strange feeling fills up our heart. It tells us there is lot things to live with. Move around.

View of the Rajgadh from Torna.

Someday I am planning to trace the whole route - Velhe-Torna-Budhala Machi-Suvela Machi-Rajgadh-Padmavati Machi-base village in one go. I have started counting days for that day. Lets see what is the count.