I and my girlfriend have just returned from a trip to Mount Ophir in Malaysia from mountain climbing with friends. I guess I should write up something before getting back to the “modern life”, hehe…
Yet, our trip was only about 2 day (26,27/12/05) with 8 members (2VNese, 1Chinese and 5 Singaporeans). It took quite a long time for us to reach the base of Mount Ophir which is in Segamat town (Malaysia) since we only used bus for transportation. Around 5pm, we were there…
At 6pm- I guess, we started. Mount Ophir has 8 Check Points (CP1 to CP8, which is the summit). The mountain is about 1276 meters ( 4187 feet) above the sea. It was getting dark and darker and the path was more difficult to climb, so we camped at CP4 to cook dinner and rest… The dinner was nice with foods from everybody. Well, things went pretty good…
The picture above is taken in the forest around 6am. It’s nice rite ?CP4- a lot of climbing, with our bare hands and the slope was actually steeper. We holded tree roots, branch or anything that can help to climb up…
CP5- here our legs were rest yet our hand must work harder. We climbed over big rock and cave with help from robes and staircases… It seemed ok to climb up here but really difficult later to climb down…
CP6- nothing much about this route, except a big wall of rock and a robe for you to climb. Yet, hold your hand to the robe, face your feet onto the wall and pull your body up, slowly but firmly with your hand never be free… It really made me surprised that we climb here with no protection equipment at all. Yup, there may be a lot of “what if…” question raised in your head if you were there… hehe.
I climbed first and followed by my brave girlfriend, who I was undoubted can overcome it… She’s great, I know…
CP7- things were back to normal with climbing, steep slope and high step where we have to use our hand to push the body up…
Ura… Yahoo…, after all, we reach the submit (CP8) around 11am… Scene was beautiful, amazingly and the air was fresh and cold.
This is a scene from above 😀
Here is the picture of our team taken on the summit (from left to right: Yongsiang, Willy, San, Eugene, Phuong, me, Susanna). It was sad that Cleo had to stop at CP7…
Staying for around half a hour, we climbed down… Some say climbing down is easier and faster but for me, it is much harder since my shoe is a bit slippy and I feeled hard to keep my body balance… Time for rest was limited since we were quite rush to catch the last bus to Segamat town. My feet and leg were really tired and my toes hurted that I hardly standed firmly… Thanks Eugene for helping me carrying my bag!…
Should I say we were lucky when it rained when we reach CP1? (!). If it rains any earlier, it is very dangerous to climb down… And yet, by the time the rain started, we knowed we missed our last bus…
So… 6h30 pm, we rent a vain to go to Segamat… Then we waited until 10pm to buy a train ticket to Singapore at … 3 am tomorrow morning (!). Finally, here we are in Singapore at 10am on 28/12…
Hey, what are the records of our trip? Hehe… we got some to mention (otherwise, the trip will be easy to forget, don’t you think?)
- Well, we have climbed a mountain at 4187 feet…
- NO breakfast, NO lunch but climbing up and down the whole day (yet, we have chocolate bars along the way and dinner but I shouldn’t mention it here, rite :D?)
- Transportation: we have MRT, bus, vain, train, walking, climbing… Many huh?
- Last but no least, we win OURSELF to face the chalenges since I know some of us never climb before and this mountain was really tough… , much more than my expectation…
Yup… That’s all… I have to get back to work now… Agrr, my legs still hurt…
All the best to every one 🙂
