We reached the highway Daba and finished our Dinner there. Then we left to Suprith's house in Chikkaballapur for staying till 2 o'clock that night. We din't had tent or some coverings to stay whole night on Skanda Giri, we had planned to stay in Chikkaballapur and leave for trekking in the midnight. We reached Suprith's house around 10 in the night and parked all our vehicles there and entered the house thinking of sleeping early, so we can get up by 2 o'clock and leave to Betta by 2.30 or 3. After a long time we all hostel mates were together instead of sleeping we started putting blade...infact you know when people meet after some time what topics 'll be there to chat. Even after forcefully we tried to sleep, it din't reach us. When we checked for time, it was almost 2 o'clock mignight. So just thought of leaving to trek bit early, we got ready by finishing nature calls, brushing, face washing....
Finally we were on the way to Kalavarahalli Betta with Suprith guiding us as he knew the place. We reached the temple at the beginning of the Betta around 3 o'clock where we parked our chariots and went to collect parking slips by paying some amount...I don't remember how much we paid. Some people were there who insisted us to get a guide for whom we had to pay 300-400 bucks. I thought its waste as I knew the route as to how to go to the starting point of the trekking place. I had collected some routing information from my colleague friend Shrini, which helped in saving those 300 bucks.
We started to trek around 3.15 in the middle of the night. It was a dark night as expected since it was Amawasya the following day. I had instructed my friends to get torches as Shrini had suggested me earlier, as it going to be very dark night. We used the torches and mobiles to find the route to climb till the peak of the Betta. We had few topics left even after we skipping the
sleep that night, which helped us to forget the strain. We took regular intervals since it was long time we had been into trekking... When the time was around 4.45, we reached about 75% of the Betta. We hurried up as some body was telling that by 5.30 sunrise would happen. After about 30 minutes of trek we were on top of SkandaGiri where I was shocked to see so many people already there to watch sunrise.It was very cold and the morning breeze was amazing. The time was 5.50 when sun showed a sign of rise. By 6.10 the clowds started covering the hill and its neighbouring hills. Bit worry
arrived us as the clouds were covering the sunrise part as well. By 6.16 the much awaited time had come. The sun started to rise in the eastern parts. The lucky part was we could watch it also. Before we could actually enjoy the scene the clouds were bad enough at that time, they covered the Sun again. We sat there on a rock waiting Mr. Sun to come out of those white mammoths. Mean while we started eating the Bread and Jam which we took in Devanahalli the previous night, as it was so hungry for all of us after the trek. We sat there for some more time expecting Sun to come out. 
But the Mammoths were strong enough to hold him so that Sun couldn't peep on to us. But whatever, the one scene when we saw the world's light source coming out after a night sleep was enough for us (we tought as there was no choice). By 7.30 we started to roam around the top of the hill and found nothing but the wreckages of a temple. When the sun couldn't come out, we thought of give up and started towards the bikes parking point. During trekking down also the scenaries around the Betta was superb. We reached down by
9.30 and headed towards Suprith's house wehre nice tiffanis were awaiting us. We reached home by 10 and had nice break fast. Finally we dispersed around 11 o'clock to reach our native places. Altogether we had a great time with this plan. More snaps of Skanda Giri can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/nlgirish/SkandaGiri02
