My bro is going around placed on every weekend. He and his big gang keep finding hills around and climb those across the day. So I thought, lets try the same model here. But gurgaon has no hills around. So I checked google maps with terrian maps and located, the closes hills to be around Alwar, Rajhasthan. Compare those heights with ours e ofis a bit silly cause Gurgaon is at an altitude of 220m and those hills are merely 600m. But for first time trekking, that is just a good warmup. Also by the time you real alwar, you are already at 300m altitude. The first trek I did was on June 20, 2005. The day I had climed my first mountain. I did not have any Holux of any GPS those days. I was with my cousin Ransingh enjoying my small 5 day holiday in Pune. (Then, my ex-girlfriend was getting married in Delhi the same day, so just wanted to run away). That day was monday and without any plan we attempted the hike cause we had loads of time. It was chilling at the top and the experiance was memorable!
So past week, me and my wife planned to take a hike ourselves. We attempted a survey session few weeks before in the same mountains and visited a old Fort on the hill top. That survey was totally on my car. Yesterday we did a real first hike. Loaded with Holux Logger, MGMaps and Trail Explorer waypoints we managed to reached our base. That was already about 350m and we both were dead tired. The timings were planned incorrectly since it was 1600Hrs and still climbing therefore, we agreed to abort the hike for the day. We walked back to the car about 2km far klept introducing ourselves across the village we walked by. The Experiance again was amazing!
We had to learn a lot of things. Like not carrying some enery drinks, some snaks. Carrying some bogus heavy luggage along and not starting the hike early enough. During our car survery, we reached the city about 3pm and the hilltop at about 4pm. This time we reached the city about 2pm and spend next two hours walking towards the base. The sunset time is about 1730 therefore, we could not keep climbing and had to retreat instead. The hill forest is not dense and any tekker will find it peanuts. But for first timers like us, the thorny bushes and lots of rocks kept bothering us a lot. There have been a lot of rains around the hills past few weeks therefore the green cover is very beautiful. But again, the hills are mostly made of sandrock therefore, plantations are very minimal small. We covered the entire hike in the GPX track and later mapped to my JOSM. The car ride to alwar takes about 3 hours from Gurgaon via the state toll highway and the distance is about 110 km. We will do the alwar trek again in the coming weeks, and this time actually reach the top. 
