DOWN BUT NOT OUT.

I was looking forward to the adventurous trip to Gunung Panti. I had previously gone to this mountrain from the forest reserve main entrance. It was an easy hike for me as the path was clear, with lots of rocks and roots forming like steps.Where there was none I could rely on tree trunks and what ever along the way. This will be a tottaly different from the previous hike. My friend,Eric informed me we had to climb some huge boulder and that got me excited immediately and I was looking forward to the climb .Unfortunately on the eve of the event I was told I had to be at the plant. Some last minute work arrangement,which I would not go into details. I quickly got in touch with my friend and after a few short message exchange all parties agreed to delay the trip a couple of hours later. You can read my post on the trip here.

This side of the mountain was practically unknown and not many people had hike from this side. There were hardly any markers and there don't seems to be any visible sign of any kind of track, and the continuous rain for the past few days had make it worst. Only Eric had been here before and we had to rely solely on him to find the correct path. We followed closely to his intructions and used some old newpaper to marked our route as we explore deep into the unknown.Each time it was a deadlock.We seems to goes in circles , and at times we thought we found the correct trail only to find out it was a false trail. After more than two hours we decided to call it quit. Putting up the marker was easy, but trying to locate them on our way back was not easy as we thought. We felt like Hansel and Gretel trying to find their out of the woods. Only difference was we did not use bread crumb like they did.We used old newspaper which the birds could not eat and so we manage to find our markers and make it out of the woods. This is the second time I have been in such a senario.The first time was when I was in Tabur with another group trying out a new route but we manage to find the trail in the end. However this time at Panti no such luck. Our failed mission will not deters us.Yes we were disappointed, but we will not give up .

Perhaps we could go by the forest reserve way and work ourselves down to the other sides. One thing for sure we will be back.

a rock stuck in the roots. the tree was uprooted,  along with it the rock.

one of my friends trying to find the correct path,which was no easy task.