Just Blog!: Trip coverage: Mount santubong

Trip coverage: Mount Santubong

Participants: bunny,wen,seb,Sylvia,Karen and colina

Eternal damnation to the rain, you’ve got the whole day to choose from, instead you choose to start at 7pm, that’s when the Liverpool Vs Mu match kick off….ggrr….when it rains I can’t watch any shit on astro, which btw why can’t you astro people make your satellite dish in a “rain-resistance” way??ha? ha?
Anyways with the rain, I’m stuck here in front of my pc typing out the santubong trip. From the initial 4 participants, in the end Seb and Sylvia came to their senses and decided to join us for the 9 hours hike.

This is the challenge of the day

behind left to right:wen,me,seb,sylvia
front left to right:karen.colina

We started our climb at around 9.45am, it was a good day to climb, hot and dry. Colina and wen lead the pack, followed by me & Karen and behind us Sylvia & seb. The very impatient colina and wen sped of creating a distance between us.

wen and colina

view from half way

our trek

me and the gals

5 minutes into the climb, Karen started to feel tired. The trail at first was not that difficult, just normal forest terrain, some where at the 1^st point, we met this 3 elderly people, around 50 years or so, consider elderly or not ah? Man!! they are strong, don’t know when I am 50 will I still be able to hike mountain or not.

quite a view

Anyways, we continue and met our 1^st ladder, the girls were terrified, mind you, the distance between each step is big, people with short leg will find it difficult to climb the wooden-unstable-shaky-vertical ladder, 8-10 steps each ladder, there must be around 10 of those ladders throughout the course, going up is difficult enough, but coming down from the ladder the ladder is the most challenging of all. Colina dna Karen were having lots of problem coming doen the ladder(they are short, no pun intended) Sylvia is a tall gal, so she did okay.

chilling out at 1 of the stop point

the damn ladder

We started out late and more time were lost due to our slow hike, nevertheless we reach the top successfully, took a lot of photos on top (as proof that we really did reach the top), had out self-packed lunch, stayed there for like 30 minutes and started our descent.

proof that we made it

our lunch

It was 230pm when we started, we were late already, we are racing against the sun, hoping we will get down before it does. Going down is much more difficult for the gals, they were terrified with the evil ladder. Each of us guys were looking after 1 gal each, colina and wen were in front, Sylvia and seb followed closely, me and Karen were way behind, making little progress. Eventually it was only me and her, we can’t even see or hear the rest of the geng anymore, not even colina’s loud rant and laugh (she was ranting and laughing all the way up and down)

going down is no easy job

It was getting dark and karen’s really scared, I can see she wants to cry already (why ah?together with me no feel safe ahh?? *sob sob*) to make things worst, she’s feeling dizzy and can’t walk already. I was also scared already, but of course didn’t show it la, need to be HERO mah. I kep on urging her forward and finally manages to reach just before the sunset.Thank God.