The climb is not as long as it is mentioned in the Harish Kapadia's book. If one takes the first local from Mumbai is it easily possible to get to the top of the mountain by afternoon 2-3 pm. The travel in this case is to first get off from the train at Asangaon and via Shahpur reach Dolkamp as mentioned in the section on the Chhonda-Ghatghar pass. Now from Dolkamp take a jeep or a bus going to Ghondawadi. Before reaching Ghondawadi one should get off from the jeep at a place called Dev?? phata. From here it takes about an hour of walk to reach Dev?? village. There are buses from Dolkamp to this village but not very frequent. This village is the base for visiting the Ajoba devi temple and the ashram which are placed just below the main wall of Ajoba. For the Ajoba trek one should be careful about asking the directions as most villagers will automatically direct you towards this temple. When in need of directions one should ask for Kumshet village or Dara Ghat. Dara Ghat is a not so gentle pass which come down form the col between Ajoba and and Mountain called Karondha. This pass is recognized by the fact that is the lowest point on the main range of Sahyadris between Ajoba and Kathra and is just left to Ajoba. fro Dev?? village one after a little bit of walk one gets to the left side of the main river which also flows from the top of this ghat. After some time one crosses the river again just before the grand water fall. Some where near there is a scree path which climbs to the top of the waterfall. This scree is quite bad especially when you are descending. One must note that this is not only one waterfall here but there is one more identical waterfall just to the right of this one. From the top of the waterfall trail is more or less formed on the nala. If you follow the trail carefully then one can avoid every difficult sections on this nala though the difficult sections are good fun to climb as they are not exposed at all. This trail climbs all the way to the top of the col. There is one section near the top where the climb can be tricky especially in the monsoon. From the col the trail descent a bit on the other side and quickly turns right traversing Ajoba. Here one sees an extended arm of Ajoba and a front end of this arm right in front with a col in the middle. One has to traverse the front end and the main arm till one reaches the middle of this arm. Here one has to look at the rock face for a cut climbing diagonally from left to right reaching up to a ledge. It is some where here you leave the trail and head towards the bottom of the cut. The climb now is on the cut. It is basically a nala and gets very steep soon after. At places one can actually leave this nala and take the jungle cover and finally one reaches the ledge. Here you have to traverse to the right and get inside lower slopes of the top of the mountain. Here there are water tanks with water. From here the route turns left and climbs very gently and one gets to a false top on the main ridge. Here one gets good views of the Harishchandra gad, Napta and the plateau near the Kumshet village. The Kumshet village is also seen on the other side of a long ridge which comes down from Karondha. It is here one notices that the original trail which is supposed to go to Kumshet village is quite long and goes parallel to the ridge and later takes almost a U turn to reach the village. This false top is only ridge on which one has to walk for almost an hour to reach the actual top. Some where near the top one also sees the other long arm of the mountain coming from the south. There is also a route on that arm and this route is partially visible from the top. There is not much of a shelter at the top so normally one might want to get to Kumshet village before sunset. One returns by the same route till one get to the level of the Deccan plateau where we had left the trail. From here is about an hours walk to Kumshet village. On these parts there are lots of trails heading in various directions, so one has to be a little careful in watching out for the right ones though most of these will take you to to the village. Kumshet is also a multiple village. There are school buildings etc where one can spend nights. From Kumshet village one has lots of options to do. The first option is to walk on the unmetallic road to another village called Shirpunje and take a bus to go to Igatpuri via Bhandardhara. The second one is the the climb of a square peak called Wandre?? (1100 mtrs) just in front of this village. This peak has some interesting similarities in terms of shape with the Chanderi peak in the Matheran range. The third is to go for Kathra and traverse towards Ratangad. The fourth option is again to go to kathra and traverse to Ghanchakkar via Muda. The fifth option is go a little bit on the unmetallic road towards Shirpunje and climb Ghanchakkar directly and come out via Muthkel.. There seems to be lots of routes to Ghanchakkar. The sixth option is to walk on the forested route to a village called Pachnai at the base of Harishchandragad. From here one can climb either Napta or Harishchandragad. There is another very interesting option. From Kumshet village on could walk about one hour towards west to reach the end of the long arm of Ajoba coming from south at the edge of the ghats. From this edge the views of Napta are simply superb. There is a tricky route descending down from here to the Konkan plains. This is the Pathardi ghat. There is a descent amount of exposure and scree on this route. The villagers definitely take this route to go to either Ghondawadi or Talegaon. The last village is easily acessible from Murbad by buses or jeeps. The risky part of the route is only in the beginning part of the route and after one bad scree patch one gets to a small temple of sorts and from then on the route is ok.