Sorry sorry was super-duper busy for the past few days. Guess what, a few days ago 10 of us went hiking and camped at Gunung Ledang!!~ I know, you guys must be thinking 'what were these bunch of people thinking, going camping during monsoon?!?'
Anyways, the moment we stepped out of our houses into the cars (10 of us aeronautical undergrad, hehe--8 guys, 2 gals) we it basically rained till we were back again at our houses. Yepz, being drenched under the rain for hours and hours...even after we set up our tents, at night it was like sleeping in a mini-swimming pool. yeps no flysheet is going to menghalang the water from going in. So, I didn't sleep at all..
We had 4 tents, but my tent is so wet, me and Pow Lee went to bunk in at the guy's tent...so end up we had to share a 4men tent with 5 people. Pow Lee basically took up all our space, so poor me, yenkwang, vibrate and ginseng didn't really sleep.the other occupants of other tents didn't do much better also. Jiajian and gimkok were like fishes in a mini-aquarium, and the others ahlun, daktong and david's were a li'l better, haha.
Our food at campsite? Lots and lots of Gardenia bread and sardines, sweet corn, beans, Lady's Choice peanut butter with strawberry stripes!!Of course there were miscellaneous food like chocolates, granola bars and....Mamee!!! which I was pretty much against of. Dahlah tak cukup air nak minum lagi nak makan makanan yang tak mengisi perut dan mendahagakan?? But it served as a good junkfood lah,since all of us seem to love Mamee a lot. The ranger raised his brows when he saw what we brought as food.
Ranger: Ahmoi, bawa tak stove?
me: Takde, cumer ada makanan tin jer (then gave me portable stove and gas)
Ranger: Minuman panas? takde minuman panas malam nanti sejuk ahmoi, boleh sakit ohhh
me: takde ah..cumer ada air kosong jer...(then gave me few sachets of milo and nescafe)
Ranger: Cawan?
me: takde jugak ah bang. (starts to look sheepish)
We figured it will be raining so the ranting pokoks all will be wet,so it will be hard to actually build campfires, bonfires etc. That's why me and Powlee, being ex-trekking members, brought solid fuel, tada...but then, the solid fuel also not really useful, but we tried to build super mini-campfire...kinda successful, but that's for the sake of camping spirit. In actual we used the portable stove that the ranger loaned us lah to cook the food. Some of us has not even been camping before, so it was good experience for some of us.
Hehe...they get to actually set up tents for the first time in their lives, pitch down tents, getting drenched in the rain, bathing in a freezing cold river, drinking yellowish water. Finally my years of guiding skills were of use. Er...actually none of them were used ler..The last time during my camping days in secondary school were more like preparing for inspection, cleanliness, gadgets yada yada. For this, it's more like just surviving. Lolz. My my...
The trip was good,albeit the heavy rain.All of us were quite cheerful and didn't scowl lah,I mean we expected it to rain anyway. Unfortunately we didn't get to hike up to the summit of Gunung Ledang/ Mt. Ophir (it being the 6th most difficult in Malaysia, with Mt. Kinabalu placing 12th). We only get to camp at Checkpoint 4, and the ranger did not encourage us to climb further up, cos the rain was really heavy and non-stop.
We waited from 3.30am till 7am hoping that the rain will stop,cos after CP4 that's where the tough terrains really start. We had to cross a river,that's why we weren't allowed to continue, due to the river's strong current. Haihhhzzz...the route up to CP4 was pretty ok, just that it was very muddy and slippery. It took us less than 3hrs to hike up to CP4. Of course I manage to keep up with the guys lah,hehe (although it wasn't flattering cos the guys treated me as 1 of them), but they had to carry awfully heavy tents so it was excusable. Hehe, I cuma contribute by carrying foodstuffs and also my own bagpack of clothes,water etc. At 9am, we lost hope and pitched down our tents already cos we won't be able to make it in time to go up till the summit CP8 and then descent the mountain. So down we go...after that we went to Muar to have the infamous otak-otak. =)
But then...sadly...*sobz we lost all our pictures!! yenkwang's SD card rosak..so keksim cos all of us bersusah-payah take pictures and everything, posing under the rain..sigh!!! Although we promise we will be back to conquer Gunung Ledang! Ngiek ngiekz
All in all, it was a good trip, mengeratkan silahturahim among coursemates =)
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