BLR Hikes

Theme — Kraft

Walk out
of the city.

Small-group hikes around Bengaluru — sunrise summits, night treks and lake days, planned end to end.

SRRHRADH Walked with 214 members so far

01 · Palette

Colour is a contract

Slots are named for their job, not their hue. A theme re-points every slot in one file; no component knows themes exist.

Token swatches

ground
surface
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ink-faint
accent
accent-type
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02 · Type

Two voices, one ramp

A display face for headlines and numerals, a workhorse for everything else, a mono for data. Hierarchy comes from size, colour and space.

Type ramp

display / 1Savandurga

display / 2Full moon walk

titleCarpools leave Bengaluru at 3 am

bodyClassic pre-dawn climb to catch the sunrise above the clouds. Shoes with grip — the last stretch is rocky.

fine printPermits arranged by the crew; cost included in the ticket.

mono / data12.6981° N, 77.2935° E · 2.41 KM · +124 M

03 · Components

The working parts

Every part carries its component name — the same names the app's design system uses.

Btn — buttons

Pill / Tag — status & type

Live Full Members Hike Hike + Swim Easy Hard Paid ✓

HighlightTag — what a trail has

CaveForestLakeQuarry

AttendeeFaces · SeatRow · DateBlock

19 going+15DHRHSRRA

Led by Shreshth SH

Aug08Sat

Field · Select · Check — forms

That doesn’t look like an email address.

Notice — info & danger

Carry 2L of water. There are no shops after the base village — the last stretch is exposed rock.
Skandagiri needs a forest permit. Registrations close 48 hours before the hike so we can file the list.

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The pools are optional. Swim only with others around, and never near the lip of the falls.

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Registration closes 48 hours before. We file the list with the forest department the evening before the hike.

04 · Event surfaces

One event, every surface

The Skandagiri Sunrise Hike from the seed data, rendered through the full set of event components.

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Live evt_skandagiri · Hike

Skandagiri Sunrise Hike

Sat 8 Aug · 04:30 – 11:00 Skandagiri, Chikkaballapur ₹1,200 · members ₹999

Prose · Checklist · Notice

Classic pre-dawn climb to catch the sunrise above the clouds. We start from the base at 4:30 am sharp — carpools leave Bengaluru around 3 am.

Breakfast on the way back is on us. Permits are arranged by the crew; the cost is included in the ticket.

What to bring

  • Headlamp or torch (mandatory)
  • 2L water, light snacks
  • Warm layer for the summit wind
  • Shoes with grip — the last stretch is rocky
Skandagiri needs a forest permit. Registrations close 48 hours before the hike so we can file the list with the department.

RegistrationCard · Meterspec’d

EventCardProminent-TornEnds · DateBlock — the rip runs along the top and bottomspec’d

9 spots left

south-west of Bengaluru · 65 km drive

Aug15Sat

Granite Gauntlet Night Trek

10:00 pm · carpools leave 8:00 pm

Up the slab scramble under a waning moon, the summit by midnight, maggi on the stove, back at the base by 3 am. First-timers welcome — the grade is steady and we walk it slow.

Hike Led by ShreshthSH 11 going+8CHDHSA

₹950

Details Register

EventCardProminent-TornSides · DateBlock — the rip runs down the left and rightspec’d

9 spots left

south-west of Bengaluru · 65 km drive

Aug15Sat

Granite Gauntlet Night Trek

10:00 pm · carpools leave 8:00 pm

Up the slab scramble under a waning moon, the summit by midnight, maggi on the stove, back at the base by 3 am. First-timers welcome — the grade is steady and we walk it slow.

Hike Led by ShreshthSH 11 going+8CHDHSA

₹950

Details Register

EventCard · DateBlock · AttendeeFacesspec’d

Savandurga Full Moon Walk

5:30 pm start

Aug22Sat
Full
Hike₹850₹700 members

Savandurga, Magadi

Asia’s largest monolith by moonlight — a slow, quiet climb up the open rock with the city glowing on the horizon.

Led by Ava SharmaAS 30 going+27SRRHRA
5:30 pm start Join waitlist

Glasswater Lake Day Hike

7:00 am start

Aug11Tue
12 spots left
Hike + Swim₹600₹500 members

north of Bengaluru · 60 km drive

An easy lakeside loop and a long swim — lake and waterfall days include the swim-safety kit. Breakfast at the village mess after.

Led by ShreshthSH 8 going+6CHDH
7:00 am start DetailsRegister

EventTicket — dense rows, no photo

Aug08Sat4:30 am

Skandagiri Sunrise Hike

Skandagiri, Chikkaballapur

Paid ₹999 ✓Pickup: Koramangala
Jul10Fri6:00 am

Kabbaladurga Day Hike

Kabbala, Kanakapura

Completed₹800

05 · Travel

How are you getting there?

Tell us where you start; we match riders to cars the night before.

TravelForm · ModeCard · Field

CarpoolManifest · VehicleCard · SeatRow

Carpool manifest · Sat 03:00

Rahul · Jimny Cooke Town · 5 seats

leaves 03:10 ETA 05:05 route

Rahul · Radhika (New Tipassandra) · Srilekha (Koramangala)

Chandan Esteem Mall · 3 seats

Chandan — picking up along Bellary Road

Still need a pickup

  • SandipJP Nagar 3rd phase
  • Dhanashree UnconfirmedAECS Layout, Brookefield

06 · Trails

The trail library

TrailCardOverlay · HighlightTag — name and facts on the cover, two per rowspec’d

Boulders and the plain from the panorama trail 4.0
Easy–mod South-west Kanakapura

Panorama Boulder Trail

A short climb onto a boulder field that opens the whole plain up at once — the cave and the shrine are on the way back down.

Length
3.0 km
Gain
+215 m
Hike
2 h 55
Drive
1 h 48
HilltopTempleCave
The big cave mouth under coconut rock 4.5
Moderate South-west Ramanagara

Coconut Rock Caves

Two caves on one walk, the second big enough to stand up in. Forest most of the way, so it holds up on a hot morning.

Length
4.7 km
Gain
+165 m
Hike
3 h 37
Drive
1 h 40
CaveForest

The variants this was picked over — TrailCard and TrailCardWide — are in the archive.

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214members
63hikes done
1,480km walked
0people left behind

Table — recent registrations

NameEventStatusAmount
Ananya R Skandagiri Sunrise Hike Paid ✓ ₹999
Vikram S Skandagiri Sunrise Hike Pending ₹1,200
Meera K Granite Gauntlet Night Trek Paid ✓ ₹950
Arjun N Savandurga Full Moon Walk Waitlist —

07 · Edges

Torn, and not

The same card through every edge treatment. The surface is a filtered background layer so text stays crisp, and photos are repainted behind a clean image so they never warp. Tune every variable in the tear lab.

BigCard — edge exhibit

Falls on the cascading vista trail

Torn — --cut: url(#cut-hero)

Cascading Vista Trail

north of Bengaluru

The long way up: 5.5 km and 460 m of climbing past the falls — the biggest single day in the library, saved for the season the stream actually runs.

WaterfallHilltop
Length
5.5 km
Gain
+460 m
Drive
1 h 20
Rating
★ 4.5
Falls on the cascading vista trail

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Cascading Vista Trail

north of Bengaluru

The long way up: 5.5 km and 460 m of climbing past the falls — the biggest single day in the library, saved for the season the stream actually runs.

WaterfallHilltop
Length
5.5 km
Gain
+460 m
Drive
1 h 20
Rating
★ 4.5
Open rock on Sounder Hill

Half width, sides straight — --cut: url(#cut-tb)

Sounder Hill

south-west of Bengaluru

The closest summit in the library — under an hour's drive, open rock the whole way up, and back in town before lunch.

Hilltop
Length
3.3 km
Gain
+259 m
Drive
0 h 55
Rating
★ 4.0
View from the wind perch

Torn, full width

Wind Perch Trail

south-west of Bengaluru

The short, steep one: under three kilometres but nearly five hundred metres of climbing, ending on an open clifftop with the whole valley underfoot.

ClifftopScrambleExposed
Length
2.6 km
Gain
+492 m
Drive
2 h 15
Rating
★ 4.0
Boulders on Porcupine Ridge

Torn top & bottom, sides straight — --cut: url(#cut-tb)

Porcupine Ridge Trail

west of Bengaluru

An easy boulder hill with a cave near the top — short enough for a first hike, interesting enough that nobody minds coming back.

HilltopCaveKid-Friendly
Length
2.6 km
Gain
+156 m
Drive
1 h 31
Rating
★ 4.5

08 · App surfaces

The app's own furniture

Ported from the app rather than to it — the surfaces every page shares, now spec'd here so there is one answer to what they look like.

PageHeader — crumbs, kicker, title, actions on one baselinespec’d

Upcoming hike

Skandagiri Sunrise Hike

Sat 8 Aug · 04:30 at the base · 6 of 25 spots left

CtaPanel — the inverted sell, one actionspec’d

Adventure awaits

Membership unlocks the exact locations, GPX files and access notes for every documented trail — and gets you first pick of the trips.

What membership unlocks

TrailHero — the trail page's opening, EventCover's familyspec’d

Mouth of the immovable rock cave
All trails

Immovable Rock Cave

Ramanagara · south-west of Bengaluru

draft

StatStrip — the secondary numbers, one quiet rowspec’d

2.4 km Trail length
124 m Elevation gain
1–2 h Hiking time
1 h 08 · 54 km Drive from the city

ActionTile — the ways into the field, one inertspec’d

GateNote — the members gate, kept warmspec’d

The trek start location, trail map and weather link are member perks — they keep fragile places from getting mobbed.

What membership unlocks

EateryList — food stops, addresses openspec’d

  • Sri Ganesha Tiffin Room

    Usable toilet

    SH-17, opposite the bus stand, Harohallimap

    Idli–vada from six; the filter coffee is the reason to stop.
  • Highway Dhaba

    No toilet

    Late breakfast on the way back.

EateryList — the same stops behind the gatespec’d

  • Sri Ganesha Tiffin Room

    Usable toilet

    Address for members

StatBand — `plain`, riding a card that is the paperspec’d

Open accessNo permit required
EasyDifficulty
4.5/5Rating

PaperStack — two torn sheets, on purposespec’d

48Documented trails
12With caves
31Under 2 h away

TrailCardProminent — the trail at the lead event's sizespec’d

Boulders and the plain from the panorama trail 4.0

Panorama Boulder Trail

A short climb onto a boulder field that opens the whole plain up at once — the cave and the shrine are on the way back down.

HilltopTempleCave
Easy–mod

Kanakapura

South-west of Bengaluru

Length
3.0 km
Gain
+215 m
Hike
2 h 55
Drive
1 h 48