Articles for July 2006

Why do people want to go trekking?

Actually, sometimes I ask myself - why do I (and many others I have met along the way) love so much to go trekking, torturing ourselves having terrible headaches, having to cook and eat our own food, suffering from strained muscles, instead of relaxing ourselves on a beach resort, watching bikini babes run along, sipping [...]

No more trekking trips coming up.

Its been a month since I took that picture above in Mount Kinabalu, and unfortunately, my holidays are ending and there has been no other treks planned during the remaining days - everybody will start to get busy again with school work. Really hope to stay in touch with trekking, its a momentum - especially working [...]

Not going to Gunung Tahan this holidays

Its been a couple of days since I have wrote. I’ve been busy with my business and some personal matters - which is good news actually. Its unfortunate, but my group of trekkers has decided not to go for Gunung Tahan this holidays. Originally, there were four of us, and later two dropped out [...]

My Sabah Itinerary

I think I should just post what I did up, just for recording purposes. 21 June 2006 We took a cab to Senai Airport at 6am for a morning flight to Kota Kinabalu Airport. The flight was for 2 hours, and we arrived in Sabah early in the day. After transferring to Trekker’s [...]

More Kinabalu Stuff

Some things I felt about Kinabalu as I trekked up - Mount Kinabalu is very commercialised (and I think a lot of livelihoods in Sabah depend on it). The trail is very obvious and the technical difficulty of the climb is minimal, much less technical than even treks like Berkelah Waterfalls or Lombong Waterfalls, [...]

My Mount Kinabalu Trekking Trip

All right! Its been a really long time since I last posted! Well, almost two weeks! While I was in Kota Kinabalu, I did have Internet access, but I guess it wasn’t too convenient to sit there for hours typing out everything, so I jotted little notes and finally today I have [...]