Sunday, November 20, 2005

Post CJ ODAC NOV XP 05'

Alight, I'm back from expedition. Earlier than expected. Just went for about 4 days and I've returned?? This is due to the fact that I've an injury to my knee and my stomach wasn't well. Think its due to the mountain water that I've drank and that I've got a weak stomach too.
Shall start from day 0. Stayed over at Aaron's house so that his dad could fetch us to our destination, early in the morning at about 4.10am. Nice house indeed. Luckily my sis fetched me to his house. If not, it would get rather troublesome for me.
Day 1. Woke up early in the morning, and left Aaron's house. Was half awake while on the car. Met us with the rest, distributed all the required stuff and we set off for the custom. Crossed the custom then waited for the bus to arrive at city square in JB. Loaded our backbacks and it brought us to Klang bus station where we were required to change bus. Arrived at the trailhead of G.Belumut. Started our climb and reached the summit in the afternoon. Descended, with a little of night hike. The group I descended with reached first and shifted all the backpacks onto the bus. When all were accounted for, we left for Klang train station. Had a nice dinner as we were allowed to buy our food.
Day 2. Took the train to Dabong, but arrived at our destination about 3 hours late. Had to rush in the end. The bus took us to Stong Hill resort where we started our ascend to Baha's camp. Used the waterfall way, which was quite challenging. The terrain up was quite bad. Reached Baha's camp and the group of us attempted to ascend G.Stong. The pace was rather fast and it was pouring. 3/4 of the way up, Noel and I decided to drop out of the group as we were both injured. Mr Liu stayed with us and did some talking and eating. Mr Lim and the rest came up and together, we left for the campsite. Learnt quite some things on the way. Wah.... It was bad. Had got a very bad abrasion. Stuck at the stream and couldn't cross as the flow was too rapid. Waited for like an hour plus and may people had taken their knowledge test. After crossing and arrived at the campsite, we started to pitch the tents. The new 8 men tent was darn difficult to pitch. Then when the rest came back, we started to cook then washed up.
Day 3. Had a sing along session at the rocks near the Baha's camp, which we could see the places below us. Extremely nice view. Then, we slept for about 2hrs plus. Woke up, striked tents then packed up. I again, didn't follow them up G. Ayam due to my injuries. Stayed at the campsite with some others. Did my stuff there and waited for them to get back. Then, we descended after that and the bus picked us up. Arrived at Dabong train station and took a train to Gua Musang station. There, the injured group left the phase 2 and 3 pple, and came back to S'pore.
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A little disappointed that I didn't complete at least phase 2, and I'm sure they had experienced a lot of things and sure enjoyed themselves. Shall end it off here now.