A CRAZY HIKE

The 4 taburs  photo credit:Faith Neoh

It all started with an innocent  suggestion, that we should try to hike all the tabur peak in a day. So when Ben finally agreed we set a date .There were many keen hikers, but as the days draw nearer one by one drop out. On the actual date one drop out due to mixed up with the event date another one could not come due to weather report that it was going to rain. On my way to the meet up point I notice the road was wet even though it was not raining.It must have rained earlier in the morning. Anyway having been here so many times, I know even if it rained Tabur will be dry and would not be difficult to hike.

We started our hike at around 7.00am  and crossed the stream to tabur west from  tabur east side. Took about 2.5 hours to complete. we back tracked and crossed the stream and continue with Tabur east and from East side we cut to Tabur Far east and then finally Tabur X and then return to East side to exit to where our cars were.All in it took us about 10.5 hours. It was longer than what we expected. Well, we did have a few stop to have some rest and snack. And also along the way helped some newbies coming down.  This is one crazy hike I will remember. I must also remember not to have any event on the event of another event. Good thing my legs was not so painful and I manage to have my rock climbing event the following day.

Tabur East.Photo credit:WanTeng

Photos credit:Wan Teng

treak towards Tabur Far east/Tabur X

I FELT LIKE A FOOL

I was looking forward to today'climb at putrajaya challenge park . After a good and satisfying climb at camp 5 last Sunday I wanted to continuing to improve my climbing so I droved all the way to the climbing gym at putrajaya. When I reached there I saw a crane inside the gym my heart sank   it doesn't look good at all. So I head over to the shop where I normally pay for the entrance fees. It was dark ,as I got nearer I noticed the door was closed There was a notice on the door saying the gym was closed for some works. Why did they not post it on their Facebook page. ? I quickly made a call to sifu to inform her about the closure. She was still at the office and was about to leave. She was just as disappointed as I was. Since there was some unfinished work to be done and the gym was closed she decided to continue with her work. As for me it was a long drive home. Half way it started to rain. I had wasted my time driving to and from the gym   it was all for nothing. It makes me look like a fool . Now I have to wait till Sunday to climb I hope nothing will go wrong.

AT THE PUTRA JAYA CHALLENGE PARK ONCE MORE.

This is my second visit to the Putra Jaya Challenge Park.  This climbing gym has massaive overhangs, upt to 25 meters high.
Lead walls range from moderate to very difficult. French 6A to 7C or more.It is one of the largest in Asia with a building space of 2,100 square feet with 20 metre height, 42 metre wide and 42 metre long Trapezional-shaped climbing walls.

It also includes a wide competition boulder wall, a gigantic advanced wall, vast room for beginners, a separate children climbing area, warm-up and training room. 

My main reason for this visit was just to catch up with friends, since I have the afternoon free, not so much as to climb. However I did climb three times and was drained out.The fear of height is still there.Even though, I was sercurely hooked on a harness, the thought of falling never go away. Still it was much better than the last time I was here. Then my friends  wanted to go to a near by restaurant for tea and at the same time to celebrate another friend's birthday.  After tea, I have to leave them, while they went back to the gym to continue.  I have another dinner appointment and have to go back to freshen up.


Here are some of the photos taken at the gym.

Birthday girl Ivy

What A Frightful Experience.

Last Sunday afternoon saw me again at the Damai Wira Wall which is  near Batu Caves .I was there last march for the rock climbing. Even though I did fairly well compare to my first attempt in march, but I still gets butterflies in my stomach. I think I still could not overcome my fear of height. A day before this outdoor climb I was at the indoor rock climbing gym to undergo my basic wall climbing course. I learnt about the various gears and equipment used for rock climbing as well as the safety requirement for this sport. After a four hours theory and pratice I received my certificate and thus now I am qualify to belay another person who is climbing. I have no problem trusting my friends who belay me when I was at the indoor walls, but I just could not bring myself to trust a machine at the auto belay section and a lot of people tried to convince me it was safe and asked me just to let go of the rope and kick away from the wall and let the auto belay system bring me down.  It took quite a while and after I climb a couple of feet down before I took the plunge   down.. What do you know it hold. On my second attempt during the basic wall climbing I had to use the machine again and I had no choice but to have another go at it , but this time I was more confidence than the first time.
on my outdoor climb, I did manage to  climb to walls, but the third wall I fail to reached the top , I was just a few feet away from reaching the top and  I was grip with fear and my arms was feeling weak and I deceided to give up and request my belayer to lowered me down. Maybe I am just not cut for this kind of  sport.
I can never understand why I do this? Was it because of the thrill or was it because of the company of friends?
I can still manage the indoor climbing, but the outdoor rock climbing is not going to be easy to get use to.
Will I do it again?  I rather not think about it until the time comes.
For those who might be interested to pick up this sport here is a useful link on rock climbing technique.

In door Rock Climbing

My first experience on rock climbing was in march when I tried the outdoor rock climbing organised by the

green trekkerz. Photos  have been posted here..Yesterday I went for the indoor rock climbing organised by the budget travellers.at camp 5. which is located at 1 Utama mall in Petaling Jaya.Housed in a 20 meter high air-conditioned glass tower, Camp5, as state o-of-the-art climbling facility, offers KL residents,travellers, schools, clubs, corporate groups,birthday parties, weekend adventurers and seasoned ascentionist the Great Indoors Experience.
Seeing others doing it seems easy, as they have no problem climbing up at all, even some kids could do it,so it should be no problem right? well that was what I thought, until I tried it myself. Boy it was no easy task, especially if one have to climb using  the selected 'rock' colour. My first attempt was on a shorter wall and mixed colour rock. The second one I deceided on one particular colour and higher wall. It was not easy, after a few failed attempted, I rested to regain back my strenght and this time I finally   make it to the top.

Here are the shots of my success.   I will definately go back again to have more fun.

photos credit: Eugene wong.