The Mulu Caves cum Pinnacles climb is a great success as far as I am concerned. The weather was good until we arrived at Gunung Mulu National park. It rains almost every night till dawn.
On the eve of our ascend to the Pinnacles, it rain till 3am. I was so worried that the climb might be cancelled by our mountain guide.
On the other hand I was also worried about the wet and slippery ground leading to the Pinnacles.
All the 22 +2 of us got up at about 5.00am,had our breakfast at 5.30am and got ready by 6.30am to start the
ascend of the Pinnacles. 3 guides lead the way.
The front runner made it in 1 hr and 50 mins (recorded by Suen Wong Lai (see pic,) of CH4 & Sunday hash ), follow by
'Kai Chung and others very fit hashers of Kajang Hash,Cheras Hash and Sunday Hash).
I took almost 4 hours of agony climbing the steep, slippery mountain ,which is full of sharp limestone rock and curly roots of the jungle trees, with a gradient of 70 to 80 % .
Peanut Queen and myself reach the Pinnacles at 11.30am on 13th march 2009.
By 12 noon I decide to decend cos being a slow and over careful hasher, I know I need extra time compare to the first guy to reach the base at 12.30pm.
It took me almost 5 hours to decend amist the rest and drinking in between the tiring decend.
Its really toturing on the thigh muscles cos every steps have to be stepped on carefully. Any fall will be a disaster with so much sharp rocks around.
Peanut Queen, Pusing Kiri Kanan and myself reached the base Camp 5 by 4.00pm under a shower of rain which start at 3.30pm.
It started well and end well inspite of the very tiring and slippery adventure. Given a chance I would vote to come back again to say 'HELLO' to such a magnificient creation of Nature.
I definitely recommend it to Hashers or Nature lovers to try it once in your life time.
Peanut King promoting Kajang Hash 3 backpack.
On ! On !
