Just Another Climbing Trip to Yong Yap~~~ Day 3~~~ 20080502~~~

Wake up early in the morning with a good news and a bad news...
The bad news... Those cuts on my leg due to the sandal were really bad... T_T...
The good news... I was going to wear my Adidas walking shoes today... Dry one... ^^...
Breakfast... Cleanup... Packing... Group photos...
Then again it was about time to go back on the track again...
Only until the moment when we were about to leave the campsite...
I found out that the campsite was really a beautiful place...
Especially when it was covered with the morning ray... How nice... T_T...
On the road again... I must said that the first 10 minutes perhaps was the best moment of my whole climbing trip...
Until we came to our first river crossing of the second day...
And much much more river crossing to come after this one...
I thought that there was not going to be any river crossing on the second day... Why... T_T...
And my shoes were never dry since again then... T_T...



The first hour of climbing were more or less the same as yesterday...
River crossing... River crossing... And river crossing...
Until when we reach the point of our last water source...
Then the climbing had became much much more difficult...
First we were starting to climb up hill...
Second the terrain had became steeper...
Third since that was the last water source...
My backpack was now 3kg heavier as I need to bring 3 litres of water up hill for tonight and tomorrow...
Perhaps that's the most painful part throughout the whole climb...
Like yesterday I was climbing together with TheDegeneration and MayDay...
Really admire both of them and those who climbing with the DSLR...
An addition 3kg already enough to kill me...
Just imagine another 3kg for DSLR... T_T...
Looking at the bulky backpack of TheDegeneration... I don't even dare to try how heavy it was... T_T...



As we got higher and higher... The vegetation was getting lower and lower...
And the terrain was getting more and more challenging...
And we stopped for rest more and more frequent...
But I was glad to have TheDegeneration and MayDay with me...
Talking bull shit and hypnotising each other that the peak was near...
Even the climb was a killing one... But it was really a nice place...
Especially when you were resting on the soft and wet lichens...
Listening to the singing of unknown birds...
And letting the cool breeze dried our sweat...
I really wish we can just rest there forever...
Out of the sudden... We heard a shout from somewhere above...
It was WinJong... Who was the person that at the front most of our team...
And he had reach the peak and came back to see if there was any load that he can help to share... How nice was he... ^^...
And the best news that he brought to us that we were 10 minutes away from the peak...
But one thing that we forgot was that climbing down hill always 3 times faster than climbing up hill...
We finally reach the peak after 30 minutes... Finally... T_T...



The rest of the group was reaching the peak one by one...
And there was already another group that had reach the peak earlier than us...
So how we were having a serious problem of not enough place for camping...
Actually I did foresee that this was going to happen yesterday night...
But since we managed to survive the hardest part of the climbing to reach to peak...
I don't think there would we so much trouble to survive another night...
Thanks a lot to TheForestGump teacher which he had found a spot for us to setup our camp...
Quite a small place actually and only managed to fit two person...
So sorry to Ades... We had to dump him to another camp... T_T...



Tonight dinner was prepared by Ades...
And again both Ades and Mantaray were having a full mass tin of rice...
My God... I wonder how big were their stomach... T_T...
When night fall... I made a couple of phone calls to FactoryGirl and Eric...
I wonder why you will always get mobile signal on most of the peaks...
Even the reception was really poor...
But so nice to have them to share my joy on the peak... ^^...
I was thinking of joining the gang after the phone call...
But the cuts on the legs were really hurt...
So I just lay down and opened up the net and the flysheet of the tent...
And let all the stars of the dark sky felt into my eye...
What a beautiful starry night... ^^...
Too bad that I do not have a camera that was powerful enough to take a picture of the sky full with stars...
And I hope that no sandfly get into our tent tonight else Mantaray will cursed me to death...



I dreamt of everyone of the climbing team that night...
We were riding a roller coaster that seem to be never ending...
We went round and round and I kept seeing all kind of faces turning round round in front of me...
Until the sound of the rain drop waken me up...
Making a quick check that no where of the tent was leaking...
Then I felt back to my dreamland again...