Just Another Climbing Trip to Yong Yap~~~ Day 2~~~ 20080501~~~

Woke up early in the morning feeling cool and fresh...
And the first thing I did in the morning was to visit the toilet for the big business...
Trying to clear up myself as much as possible...
Just imagine of not having a proper toilet facility for the next three days... T_T...
Then after the final round of packing... We were ready to go...
But before that... We went to Kampung Raja for breakfast... ^^...
Hot Milo with Kuey Teow Soup... Simple but most likely going to be the best meal ever for the next three days... T_T...
Anyway... Kampung Raja seems to be the entrance for most of the mountain available in Cameron highland...
As we had met some of the climbers who were going to another mountain there too waiting for their four wheel drive...
Anyway... It was just a simple but busy little town...



Finally our four wheel drives was here...
3 vehicles to squeeze in 25++ climbers with all of their bulky backpacks... T_T...
The ride to the orang asli village was a bumpy one...
Which took us about 30 minutes to the first village...
Then another 30 minutes to the second village...
Which according to them it will save us up to 1 hour of climbing...
And I just can't wait to get off the four wheel drive and started the climb...
As I just hate the feeling of being like a sardine... T_T...

Once we reach the starting point of the climb...
We were facing our biggest challenge throughout the whole climbing trip...
That was to cross a long and shaky and simple little bridge...
The bridge was actually just three long bamboo stick and it was so hard to balance myself while looking at the river roaring down below... T_T...
Still all of us managed to cross save and sound...
Except for our leader who accidentally felt from the bridge but luckily his backpack was not getting wet...
After an hour climbing on the broad logging trail...
Then came our second biggest challenge of the trip...
It was to cross the deepest river... Actually it was just about waist level deep...
But it became a very difficult task when you need to cross it with a huge backpack behind you and somehow still you need to keep it dry...
The rapid was strong... I really had some hard time to keep myself steady and balance...
And of course... My backpack was wet... T_T...
But luckily enough I did enough waterproof precaution on everything in my backpack...
Else I just can't imagine how to survive at the peak with wet cloth and wet sleeping bag... T_T...



The rest of the climb was just more or less the same...
Flat and easy terrain... With tons and tons and tons of river crossing...
And I can hardly find a leech in this whole mountain...
But there were something else that were much more irritating than leeches...
Mosquitoes... Sandflies... And all kind of insects that suck blood... T_T...
And that's one of the reason why I just kept on climbing and very hesitate to stop for a rest...
As no matter where I stopped or how long I stopped...
There were going to be tons and tons of tiny creatures crawling or flying around my legs... Shit... T_T...
And there was a big mistake that I had made during the first day of the climb...
Which was climbing with only sandal...
I always thought that it would be a good idea since we had a lot of river crossing on the first day...
Furthermore a lot of climbers were climbing with sandals too on the first day...
And I hate so much to do the climbing with wet sport shoes...
But the price was not a small one too...
I got four big cuts and two blisters on my feet at the end of the day...
And the pain was really killing me... T_T...



We reach the campsite about 4:30pm in the afternoon... Which was about 6 hours climb...
As expected the campsite was full with sandflies... So hate... T_T...
I just can't wait to setup my camp clean up myself and get change into my long pant with a thick layer of mosquitoes repeller to get rid of them...
However the number of sandflies seems to be reducing after night fall...
And thanks to that so that I can really enjoy my dinner with Ades which prepared by Mantaray...
It was really a shock to see the amount rice that he had prepared for just three of us...
A full mass tin of rice... T_T...
It just reminded me that how 1000 and 501 finished up a KFC family bucket after Gunung Tahan trip...
Perhaps mountain had some kind of power to make someone crazy about food... T_T...
Anyway I consumed up about half mass tin of rice and both of them took care of the rest...
Still I had quite a full dinner as it ate much much more than usual...

Midnight while resting... I dreamt of sandflies biting up my legs... T_T...
Just to wake up and realize that it was raining outside...
And those cuts were still very aching... T_T...