... need to test ur mettle mate?
A few good fellas told me it's way early to plan anything for Chinese New Year (CNY) next year, that would be 14-15 February 2010. Well, i have to... They only allow a small number of climber's per day on Mt Tahan and CNY is like a lottery win in term of holiday days for climbing society. So combine that two fact and you'll have a lot of people going in that direction. Still lucky, most of our Chinese climbers will be out of action on this holiday. Never mind guys, you'll get ur chances on Ramadan fasting month and Raya Holiday when we will be out.
Found this map on on of the forestry web. Merapoh-Kuala Tahan route looks really loooooooong on this map. But then again, it wont be called Mt. Tahan (endure) for nothing... The map is in Malay. I'll upload anything in English if i find one or if i manage to find time to sketch one :-)
Interested Climbers
1. Frost
2. Ameer Khan
3. Chombee
4. Apiz
5. Pakli
6. Akademiks
7. Rav Vee 8. Huff feez 9. Pok Yi i10. Pok Yi ii11. Pok Yi iii12. Pok Yi iv
13. Pok Yi v
14. Pok Yi vi
15. Sir
16. Khairi
17. Jeejon
18. Red Zuan
Update
14 August 2009
~ Got the climbing rate from Kuala Tahan office but am afraid it is not complete, will have to try Merapoh office again (there's phone problem over there)
24 August 2009
~ Booked 13-19 February 2010 as tentative climbing date
~ 13th is the starting date from Sg Relau (Merapoh) and ends on 19th at Kuala Tahan
~ Maximum of 12 climbers04 September 2009
~ Normally, in every expedition there will be a theme song. More or less like the theme song for movies. During the early trip in 1990's to Mt Ledang aka Mt Ophir, it started with Fade to Black by Metallica. Till this day, every time this song is heard, it'll bring back the memories.. two over ambitious guy tackling Mt Ledang route without tent nor guide
~ For this trip, because we will be going trough the classic route with spectacular Malaysian mountain ranges... the theme song for this expedition will be the theme song from Micheal Manns 1992 movie - The Last Of The Mohicans. It is in some native language, would guess Red Indians
~ We bet it would be nice to hear it at the highest ground of peninsular Malaysia while viewing sunset. Obviously i got too much time to kill.. sigh
~ Will try to upload or provide links for it later
29 September 2009~ The Aidilfitri celebration peak is over even thou the raya itself is far from over with the open houses
~ Now would be a good time to slowly start jogging and to pick up the stamina
~ The advise would be to jog at least 3 times a week for 3 km on each run~ Don't rush on your jog, take your time.. we're just starting....06 November 2009 ~ Latest~ The November rain is finally here..
~ For the time being, our expedition to Mt. Tahan is overbooked
~ We will start finalising the name of participants in mid December
~ Confirmed participants will have to put down small deposit
~ For now, don't let the November rain stop you from building up that stamina
