MooMoo and gang left the ‘Cottage Hotel’ at 845am on Thursday (10th March 2011), heading to the Kinabalu Park HQ for climbing permit registration.After our lenglui tour guide, Yvonne helped us with the registration, each of us were given the climbing permit tag with numbering and our names on it. We had to hang it around our neck all the time throughout the climb.
MooMoo and gang started the adventure well by taking a group picture with our mountain guide at Timpohon View. Our driver and guide were very nice and sweet… they actually stopped for us to take some nice snapshots since they noticed that the view of the mountain was great that morning as it is not covered by clouds.
At Timpohon Gate, MooMoo and gang started off the climb at 915am. All are well equipped with the walking stick and full of spirit at the beginning of the climbing journey. Hahaha….
Our mountain guide is called ‘Arnold’… Not Arnorld Swarchenegger but can be as strong and as fit as him. Haha… Piggy’s BFF’s so called dear “Abang”… He's giving us one short briefing at the Timpohon gate before started our journey....There were insufficient porters when we were there so Arnold ended up being our mountain guide cum porter, having to carry 5 people’s stuff in Piggy’s big backpack, which is in total 18kgs. Halfway up the mountain, he ended up carrying Piggy and Piggy’s BFF’s little backpacks as well. Hahaha… Well of course it is not Free. We paid about RM144 in total but in the end we tipped him a bit since he's been kind to all of us.
It started quite well at 1st with everyone looking fresh… after the 3rd km, MooMoo started to get a bit tired but she managed to motivate herself by keep snapping pictures along the way….managed to snap pictures of cute squirrel and some flora and fauna along the way.
Though the journey may seem to be a short distance of 6km in total, it is a real tiring and challenging journey with all the never-ending flights of stairs and rocky, uneven routes. MooMoo can usually run 10km in about 70mins, which is 1 hour plus BUT she took about 1 hour for each km’s hike. Imagine that…
* never ending flights of stairs...
* rocky, uneven routes...It didn’t get any better when it started to rain heavily. The hiking became more difficult when it is wet and slippery. Most of the time it is quite scary especially when you're alone. Everyone was hiking at different speed and the guide is most of the time with Piggy... motivating her all the way. So, the rest of us have to 'chap-sang' (* in canton - take care of yourself...haha...)
MooMoo didn’t listen to instructions and didn’t bring her raincoat, assuming her newly bought windbreaker stated ‘stained’ and ‘wet’ proof. Well, it didn’t worked that well… her new Columbia windbreaker, which is white color got a bit stained and wet after all the rain. Anyway, after thorough washing, it looks 90% new now. Hahaha...
MooMoo didn’t listen to instructions and didn’t bring her raincoat, assuming her newly bought windbreaker stated ‘stained’ and ‘wet’ proof. Well, it didn’t worked that well… her new Columbia windbreaker, which is white color got a bit stained and wet after all the rain. Anyway, after thorough washing, it looks 90% new now. Hahaha...
Anyway, MooMoo was real lucky that she met a nice guy while sheltering at a resting booth on the way up to Laban Rata. The nice, sweet guy gave his raincoat to her. Thanks to him that MooMoo ended up not that wet after all. Too bad didn’t get his contact to thank him. Wanted to return it to him when reached the top but can’t find him after that.
After 3-4 hours hike, MooMoo stopped by a resting hut to eat her packed lunch, which was simple fried rice with egg. MooMoo only ate half the pack of rice as she had not much appetite though damn hungry…. Maybe due to being too tired…
After 3-4 hours hike, MooMoo stopped by a resting hut to eat her packed lunch, which was simple fried rice with egg. MooMoo only ate half the pack of rice as she had not much appetite though damn hungry…. Maybe due to being too tired…
MooMoo started her journey again after fueling up her hungry tummy. She managed to reach Laban Rata around 330pm. She was so happy to see the hut at the end of the Summit Trail. She happily spend some time taking pictures before heading to the hut.
BUT later MooMoo got so disappointed when she turn round the corner….the Pendant Hut sign lead up to a flight of stairs ….OMG!!!! 
MooMoo had to slowly drag herself up the stairs… with another member from her gang…”Little Red Riding Hood”… hehe…
Both reached the Pendant Hut@Laban Rata around 3:45pm. MooMoo was so happy to 'at last' reach on time for the ‘Via Ferrata’ briefing. If not, will be disqualified from the ‘Via Ferrata’ activity the next day.In total, MooMoo took 6 hours and 30 mins for the tiring 6km hike.
At 4:30pm, Piggy at last reached the hut as well with the mountain guide. Arnold had helped stressed her all the way to make her reach on the dot. Congrats, Piggy!!! You made it too. All of us make it on time.
Our mountain guide, Arnold was damn tired and hungry. After unloading our stuff, he quickly go grab his late lunch/early dinner.
Almost fainted when they showed MooMoo the room and the toilet…. More stairs after all the flights of stairs. Gosh… lucky the guy at the Pendant Hut was so nice to carry our bags up to our room for us.
MooMoo was so tired that she didn't even remember to snap picture of the room. Hahaha... this picture was taken from Piggy's camera. Thanks to Piggy for the picture... ^=^
At 4:30pm, Piggy at last reached the hut as well with the mountain guide. Arnold had helped stressed her all the way to make her reach on the dot. Congrats, Piggy!!! You made it too. All of us make it on time.
Our mountain guide, Arnold was damn tired and hungry. After unloading our stuff, he quickly go grab his late lunch/early dinner.
Almost fainted when they showed MooMoo the room and the toilet…. More stairs after all the flights of stairs. Gosh… lucky the guy at the Pendant Hut was so nice to carry our bags up to our room for us.
MooMoo was so tired that she didn't even remember to snap picture of the room. Hahaha... this picture was taken from Piggy's camera. Thanks to Piggy for the picture... ^=^* to be continued.... on Day 2 adventure... going to zZz now... had a GREAT time at STEP class 2day despite my aching right knee. The 1st STEP class since my KK trip... ^=^
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