Route: KaladGadh via SadhleGhat

Route: KaladGadh via SadhleGhat
This blog has been written for a sole purpose of guiding thru the route of Sadhle Ghat. One can also go through my another blog which narrates our experience on Kaladgadh via Sadhle ghat trek.

SadhleGhat (2990 ft abv. MSL) is situated in the neighbourhood of KokanKada ( Harishchandra Ghad ). After ascending via Sadhle Ghat, one can approch HarishchandraGadh towards right within an hours time. Also a motarable road towards right takes one to Pachnai, while left towards Kaldagadh and further to Patachiwadi. Bhairavgadh (Ambit), Ghanchakkar also lie in proximity.

The above map should be refered with this article for better understanding of the route and locations. To approach SadhleGhat one can take a ST bus from Kalyan goin towards Malshej Ghat and get down at Savarne, a village on highway, just before MalshejGhat starts.

Savarne to Belpada:

Savarne to Belpada is a popular route with the people who has already done Nali chi vaat route for HarishchandraGadh. Nite stay can be made at School at Savarne which can accommodate around 12-15 people; otherwise one can managed at some villagers place.

There is a motorable road that goes to Belpada from Savarne…. but it can be quite long and time consuming. To bypass this constraints, one can follow a straight path and then cross over the hill. This crossing can be a gud warmup for all. It would take 45 mins. to reach Belpada via this route also one gets a nice view of Kokan Kada while reaching Belpada. Water bottles should be refilled here since there is no water avaibility all through the way.

Belpada to SadlheGhat [ Part 1 ]:

Now our map comes in play… while walkin till Belpada you must have been praising the mighty Kokan Kada towards your right, and a vew of Nappta hill (point 2 in our map) straight in front. SadhleGhat summit cannot be seen untill u get closer towards the Nappta Hill. The most important caution here is not to turn right at any point while walking towards the Nappta Hill. Diverting right would take u on the plateaus and small

hills where you can have a tough time finding the way out of the mess. As seen in this image….. start moving right slowly from now…. there are some small hills in front tooo… so dont cross them to get tooo close to the Napta Hill.

Point 3 is a temple shaped pinncle which lies at the end of Kokankada curvature, while Point 4 is another pinacle which luks a little simillar and has

needle hole at the top. Make sure that you dont move towards right at all. The safest deal would be to go to Kelewadi after Belpada and from there, the SadhleGhat col can be identified. One can also go along the path shown in map but with utmost care of not diverting right unless the SadhleGhat col is identified. By this time you must have left both point3 and pont 4 behind and the Sadhle Ghat col is clearly visible as shown in the image besides. Now slowly start marching along the prominant paths taking you towards the Sadhle Col. On the way you cross over dry streams a few times. Around 2 hours hike from here would take you to the SadhleGhat pass. The SadhleGhat passsge had scrumbling rocks and one should be carefull here. Moving towards right will bring u in a dense forest.

SadhleGhat to Motorable Road [ Part 2 ]:

Here one path moves towards left and other towards right. Move towards right again and keep moving along the path. After you come out of the tree covers,and start walkin over a plain land, from here one can see HarishchandraGadh towards right and Kaldgadh’s Kombda ( also termed as Kalad cha Angtha) towards straight-left. Moving alog the prominent path leaves you on a motorable road.

Moving towards right along this raod can take one to Pachnai in around an hour or two while one has to move left along the road to reach Kaladgadh or Patachiwadi (Pethechi wadi).

To Kaladgadh or Patachi wadi [ Part 3 ]:

Moving along the road towards left for some time, you will see Kaladgadh standing to your left adjoing the road. But the approach is at other end and marked exactly on the map. The road ends at Patachiwadi where one can take shelter either in the school or any villagers place.

Kaladgadh approach is well marked in the map provided here. The initial hike is normal but the final part has a rock patch with small steps carved in at some places. One needs to be carefull here coz it mught be a little tricky to deal with this patch while decsending for the rookie trekkers. Immediately after ascending the rockpatch, there is a temple carved in singlerock in the ground. Various carvings can be seen here. Moving towards left from here, the path leads straight to the other end of the fort where few more idols can be seen imediatly after the water tank. This is all the sightseeing atop Kaladgadh. Also one gets an awesome view of sun setting over Dhom mountain towards the west. One also gets a gud view of Bhairavgadh and Ghanchakkar from Pethechi wadi and enroute Pethechiwadi.

I believe that keeping this article and map with you should guide you properly. For further details or querries you can contact me.