On Saturday (07.04.12), LauTan, FLZ and I joined Mountain
Goat & Lady Goat’s hare for Mount Kiara Harsh. The run site was at Ah Pak
Hill near Venice Hill. They really spent a lot of efforts for all hashers, for
a very2 “long” short run and Long run is just like another mini-ball breaker.
The split for long run and short run was after 1.5 hours. By the time we
reached the run site, the day was already dark. We had run for 2hr++. I was so
thirsty that I finished 2 cans of “REVISE”. A bowl of hot porridge has helped
me to fill my stomach. And then, continue waiting for FLZ who was still in the
SUPER LONG RUN. They were arrived the run site after 2.5hr++.
It was a very fun and frinedly CIRCLE. All in “sarong” as this is the gifts from our
HARES. It was a lot of fun to watch the hashers wearing the sarong in very
creative ways. Some of us start wondering should I naked inside. (As of the
hash rule, no under garment is allowed if wearing sarong, for men only.) If no
under garment, how would it be like if you are on-iced? Just noticed that ALL those
on-iced were not following the hash rule.
As of no working the next day, we were enjoying with the
CIRCLE, drinks and chats. In the end of the CIRCLE, at about 11pm, we have nasi
lemak for supper. It was a wonderful night spent with MKH4 and Thanks to Mountain
Goat & Lady Goat for organizing such a nice and friendly event. ON ON!
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After a super long run experienced on Saturday night, I
thought of having a relax run at SH4 today. Unfortunately, it was “LAGI” terror.
It was a totally NEW trail. The journey
passed by many land slide areas. The terrain was so challenging. To me, the set
run team must have broken a few PARANG in order to clear the route for us. In
must be very TOUGH, DIFFICULT and PAINFUL for them. Thanks you all HARES!!
As of the new running trail, many of us refused to let go
this “Unknown Land”, even with very tired and souring legs. Along the journey, SKS
& I were busy in taking the nice shots that we were left behind by the
group. We had to run fast and when reached
the Last Running bastards; we were almost out of breath.
When we reached the peak, some of them had already awaiting
us for the photo session. For all the sweat and pain, it is time to reward with
PHOTOGRAPH. This is a proof of hardship and challenge that we were faced
earlier. Checked the clock and it was already 7PM. OMG! It seems that we need to use head light
as GM wishes! As new to this site, we had no idea of where are we now? Luckily,
FONG WAN had his GPS check and shared with us that we are 2 KM away
(horizontally!). Not so bad.
We saw a TANGKI and we thought that we may just walk along
the road. Unfortunately, we walked toward the terrain, bushes and jungle.
Another similar journey of up down for us. We had passing some rivers with very
soft ground and mud like swamp. A few times, GouBaoChoon had his shoe loosen
and sucked deep in the “swamp”. Every
step was like a trap waiting. It felt like a mouth underneath waiting to “eat”
your shoe. For the worst, the whole body of us…CHILLING!!
Not long, we could hear rain falling from the opposite
mountains. Both SKS & I were quickly packed our cameras. I started to worry
and feel regret to bring my new Lumix GX1 in the jungle. Just after a short
while, rain reached us quick and heavy. The thickness of the tree leaves had
reduced the rain pouring on us. I was getting worry with my camera now although
with a few layers of protecting.
The day turned dark even faster during rain. We had our
headlight set and walking in the dark and have no sense of direction on where
are we now. We made a few very deep slopes. We had to help each other to slide
down safety. When we were climbing up hill, some of us had to rent their hands
for support and pulling one up hill. I
saw a good teamwork in SH4 again. ON ON!
Here came a spot that SKS couldn’t find the hash paper as of
the heavy down pour of rain and darkness. FONG WAN found a deep slope in front.
While checking for the direction, suddenly, he fell down and hit a tree and lied
down on the ground. He was in shock and made some painful sound. I was so panicked
that he might be in serious injury. I tried to find some trees to support me to
go down to help him. For a sudden, I was slipped and was in the air then free fall
down. It was so terror that I couldn’t imagine how deep it would be? I pray for
my life. Then, I hit Fong Wan and fell down further. After the shocked, I
managed to stand-up and checked for any injury. I couldn’t feel any pain. I
must have safe by Fong Wan. He became my cushion that reduced my downward
impact. I was so lucky that the camera was facing upward, if on downward, it
must have crushed and broken. It was about 15-20 feet deep.
Checked the condition of Fong Wan, he was fine. We both managed
to stand-up and warned others not to follow our trail. SiuPao managed to move
down from left. Unfortunately, the land must be very soft that he also slide
down and reached us. At the same moment,
ChaXiu was also fall down like us and I saw her hitting the same tree. Her
stomach hit the tree very hard. She was in pain and tear. She told us that her
leg was in pain. Luckily, we were not in any serious injury. After some rest, we managed to guide other to climb
down from a safer route. We continued with our TERROR Journey in a group.
Luckily, after climbing up the hill, we could see the run
site from the peak. We were so happy and feel relief that we SHOUT very loud and
long. We gather everyone in a group then only walked toward the run site together.
We cheer each other’s and it was really a wonderful moment. On On!
We reached the run site at 8:10pm. Some of them told me that
if we didn’t reach by 8:30pm, they would go in to rescue us. I like this kind
of team work and support. Thanks you SH4! On ON!
When reached home, after shower, all pains from injury
started emerged. I have some bruises on right hand and scratches on left leg. I
felt both my legs were souring and pains the next day.
From these 2 runs, I had exceeded my quota for this month
hash run. I will have business travelling again next week. By the time I come
back, I do hope that I will have another good run bit not like these two. On
ON!
*** SaiTan ***
