Tadiyandamol Trek - Coorg

Our most expected Brahmagiri trek was totally collapsed, Thanks to the Summer Heat, the next alternative we could think of was Tadiyandamol near Kakkabe in Karnataka. Myself , nirmal, harish, rakesh, keerthi, Saravana took the Mysore express on Friday night and reached Blore by early morning 4, from there we have arranged for a pick to Tadiyandamol base camp. We took the SH thru virajpet to kakkabe.The road was very well maintained by the Karnataka govt, and the early morning climate was also very pleasant and foggy, the visibility was very low.

After refreshing up we reached the based camp , which actually is a palace, there u can park ur vehicle and start trekking. Initially the trail was a well laid tar road passing thru a coffee estate (privately owned).

After covering a approx 3 kms the forest trek trail starts with lots of small rocks which was little bit slippery, and there were small stream of water along ur path, the water tasted good and was really a refreshing one, fill ur water cans to the maximum there itself no water is available in the top.


After a kilometer thru jungle trail,the trekking trail opened up in to a open valley of sholas.


By that time the sun was almost killing as mercilessly, as we were ascending the trail we heard a loud growl of a tiger, not sure wheather it’s a tiger or something else but the noise was loud enough to scare us to death,We stood there confused about continuing or not. Moreover we don’t have a guide with us, all are first time trekkers, and to the core we don’t know the exact trekking trail even. So we decided to descend back.

The Point where we heard the Growl

On the way back after a few steps of descend we saw a UK couple ascending towards the peak. The UK person named David ( a 64 year old young man ) encouraged us and showed us the right trail to move ahead.David is visiting india frequently for the past 12 years,this is his fourth year in this mountain itself. Motivated with the information he gave we again started to move towards the summit

That's David there with us

After crossing about 4 kms, we started to ascend in a steep rocky surface. Before entering the Steep rocky ascend u have to cross a Big Black rock, once u reach that rock take right and start ascending never take a left.

That is the Peak which we climbed

From there the ascend was little bit steep and was slippery, we crossed another 1 km in the rocky surface . Ascending in the steep surface was really tiresome for a first time trekker and also the summer heat added up to the tiredness. As we reached a highest point from where the ascend to the summit was only few meters away one of our friend was totally collapsed. So we decided to quit there and took few photographs there.

At the Highest point

From that point the Descend towards the base was relatively a easy one only. It took us hardly 1.5hrs to reach back to the Base. Though we had lot of holes in our plan this trek really gave us many heart warming incidents

About tadiyandamol
Tadiyandamol means the highest point in the kodava language, standing 1740 mtrs height is a second highest peak in the Karnataka.
Important Things
• No permission is required
• No guide required (But ensure the trail before u start ascending)
• Avoid trekking in summer, entire trek is through open valley only
• Carry enough water , no water uphill