RATANGAD

Date : 13th July, 2024 (12th Night)
Grade : Moderate
Cost : ₹1,050
Highest Altitude : 4260 Feet (1297m)

Major Attraction :
Rock cut stairs for final ascend from Samrad Route, Caves at Top, Nedhe, 360 View from Top including AMK, Kalsubai, Katrabai, View of Bhandardhara Backwaters and Ancient Amruteshwar Temple

Meeting Point :
Kasara Railway Station Ticket Window : 01:12 am (After reaching meeting point, call our trek leader. Contact detail will be provided on the event day)

Key Info :

Trek Duration : 3.5 Hours ascend, 3 hours descend
Water Sources : Base Village
Washroom Facilities : Base Village (Samrad Only)
Technical Climb : No
Base Village : Samrad (Start Point) and Ratanwadi (End Point)
Nearby City : Igatpuri
Mode of Transport : Sumo from Kasara (10-12 Seater)
Vehicle Travel Distance : 80kms one way
Vehicle Travel Duration : 3 hours one way
Batch Size : Minimum 8, Maximum 30 Participants

Tentative Schedule :

Friday Night

Board CSMT-Kasara Fast Local (If you miss the train, you miss the event)
10:50 pm : CSMT
11:05 pm : Dadar
11:18 pm : Ghatkopar
11:30 pm : Mulund
11:34 pm : Thane
11:50 pm : Dombivali
Saturday

12:01 am : Kalyan
01:12 am : Kasara
01:15 am : Move towards Base Village
05:00 am : Reach Base Village and Have Breakfast
05:30 am : Start Trek after short briefing and Introduction
09:30 am : Reach the Top and Explore

11:00 am : Have Lunch (Bring your own)

11:30 am: Start Descend

02:30 pm : Reach Base Village
03:00 pm : Visit Amruteshwar Temple if time permits or else Move towards Kasara
06:00 pm : Reach Kasara and Board 06:17 pm Kasara-CSMT Fast Local
08:35 pm : Reach CSMT

Cost Inclusions :

Travel from Kasara to Base Village and Return
Breakfast
First Aid, Guide and Expertise Charges Only

Things to Carry :

2 Litre of Water
Snacks for Journey
Trekking Shoes (Action Trekking or Coaster CTR Shoes are recomended, Avoid Forclaz/Quechua/Running/Other Sports Shoes for Treks in Maharashtra)
Glucon D or Elecrolyte Powder
Medicine as necessary to you

Overview :

Ratangad means Jewel Fort, and it surely justfies it's name. Ratangad can be trekked from Samrad and Ratanwadi Village, both village are famous one for the famous Sandhan Valley and another for the ancient Amruteshwar Temple. The trek has a lot to offer, starting from scenic traverse and rock cut stairs from samrad route, needle hole (nedhe at top, caves, buruj and water tanks and descend through ladder. The fort provides scenic views of Kalsubai, Alang-Madan-Kulang, Katrabai and Bhandardhara backwaters.

How do you determine your fitness?

Trekking requires good cardiovascular fitness. One can improve this by going for a run on a regular basis and breathing exercises also helps. Smoking also hampers lung capacity, avoid smoking if you want to improve your cardiovascular health.
Even though trekking requires full body strength but strong lower body helps a great deal. Hamstring, Glute and Calves are main muscles that are put to test on treks to name a few. Gym goers often pay less attention to lower body workouts and hence sometimes struggle on trek.
Some treks have less elevation gain (height gain) but are long treks, those trek require good endurance. Endurance can not be built overnight, it takes a long time and constant active lifestyle.
Just because you take long walks, do yoga or go to the gym does not necessarily mean that you are in good fitness. The type of workout you do and your cardiovascular fitness is what matters on treks.
If you have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of more than 25 then you should only start with Easy treks.

How do we grade our treks ?
Easy: Ideal for first timers but if you are not in good fitness or have a less active lifestyle then select treks which have less than 2 hours of climbing.

Easy Moderate: Ideal for first timers, but requires good endurance as these treks may have longer duration of climb even though terrain may be easy.
Moderate: These trek require good fitness and the terrain can be challenging, like constant climb or tricky patches. These are usually recommended only if you have done a few treks before and have done well on them. Fit and active beginners can also do these treks but we always suggest to start with easy treks.
Moderate-Difficult: These trek are only for trekkers who have done few moderate level treks before and have good fitness and endurance.

Difficult: These treks either have long trekking hours or have technical climb or both. Only suitable for people who trek regularly.

a) You can cancel your booking 2 days prior to the start of the event day and take 80% refund (E.g. For Sunday morning event you can cancel up to Thursday night 11:59 pm, however for events leaving Saturday night you can cancel up to Wednesday night 11:59 pm)

b) If you cancel after that time limit, then you will neither get any refund nor the amount will be adjusted in future events under any circumstances.

c) However, you can always send someone eligible as your replacement. No extra charges or cancellation charges will be levied for the same.

d) Our events are planned assuming normal weather and normal conditions, in case of occurrence of any natural calamities, riots, political unrest, outbreak of disease or other such circumstances which are beyond our control, the event may be cancelled, Leaders decision will be final and binding on all participants, under such circumstances, No refund will be provided.

e) Any eligible refund as per above policy will be processed within 3 working days.

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