Jementah Hill, 140 meter, route for hiking exercise

This is a very popular place for locals to have morning or evening walk. The gentle slopes with few stretches of steep ones are suitable to children and old folks alike. There is one stretch of very steep slope that I treat it as 'hill run' in marathon preparation. For a beginner who never exercised this may pose a challenge, and can be expected to reach the first resting hut with no problem with slow pace.

The routes pass through rubber plantation and durian orchard. I had once bought a durian for RM5 during a fruiting season while doing morning walk. Certain part of the hill is secondary forest and here I spotted a bright red minivet, dollar bird and other wild birds.

Needless to say the air is very fresh, except occasionally stained with exhaust fume from the rubber tappers' motorbikes which ramped up the steep slopes. The laterite treks are well used by vehicles and are hard and firm even after a heavy downpour. Many mountain bikers are seen to come here to test their skills.

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Gunung Liang East & West, 3Mar2012, Day trip (12 hours), 1933 meter

Another KL Hiking Meetup event organized by Alex and Ray Lee

After a grueling six hours, I finally reached Gunung Liang West summit. This peak is lower than Liang East, which is another 15 minutes further away.

Trail head- After parking our cars and walked a short distance we reached the gate of water treatment intake point. The sign read 'No trespassing' but there was no guard here. We had to skirt around this gate and its perimeter fence by climbing a short and steep slope on the left (a hiker was seen on that part).

Kem Lubok Hantu- This campsite is quite big to accommodate many tents.

Next to the Kem Lubok Hantu was the ferocious river crossing where many of us were scrambling over the rocks to avoid getting the boots wet. Some did not succeed and fell to the stream of fierce current and swept down to the swallow pool below- much to our amusement after an initial panic for fear of drowning.

Kem 7E (Seven Eleven) at 1200 meter, five tents could be pitched here. Normally hikers will stay overnight here- not many are as crazy as we are to do Liang in a single day although it is doable. See here is Tee Kong Tiong and Vincent.

Summit of Gunung Liang East, 1933 meter, at 1:30pm, with Ray Lee, who hikes mountains like Siao Fei Xia (Peter Pan).

With Chun and Ez Paul. Notice the fairy tale-like mossy forest at the summit. I took lunch (some nameless bun and Kitkat bar) here at 1:30pm, rest for a while and follow the rest to descend at 2pm (turn around time).

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