Rock Climbing at Badami - Oct 2012

Just Climbing........

@ Badami, Karnataka, India

on 5th, 6th and 7th Oct 2012

with Kamesh, Anya, Isha, Anil, Shonali, Julie, Madhu, Arjun and Neeraj......

8 ppl, with 10 bags and 1 auto......


Searching for routes...




Top Rope Gorge, Ganesha Area


















Sunshine Wall




Sunshine wall is filled with numerous routes






Badami Deluxe




Fixing hangers, the place is marred with stolen hangers, most of the starting hangers on bolted routes have been stolen by locals or god knows who......










End of the day.... 
By Neeraj Kumar

Badami Rock Climbing Trip

Beyond any doubt, Badami is THE paradise for Rock Climbers.

Pictures will speak for themselves. A photo log of the year end climbing trip.



It has the most wonderful lead routes and equally crazy bouldering moves.





It’s a big crazy dyno move.




There are more than 200 bolted routes. But sad to say that some of the burden-to-the-society people have stolen the starting hangers :( Very bad, which has resulted in some really high first clips. Like this one at more than 20ft.



The rocks are made up of sandstone and limestone. Thus we could climb for 4 continuous days. Compared to Ramanagram granites, they are super smooth, very very nice.







Some bouldering routes are really scary, like this one with the finishing hold at more than 25ft.



And some are really technical.



There are routes literally every where. You just have to look up and bingo, there is a route.







Great Shot!



Apparently, for non-climbers, Badami is most famous for its Cave Temples.

By Neeraj Kumar