AHFR III 1 Nov 2009

With this third trek, I would say that I have completed all the AHFR trails. Within 25 minutes of trekking, we reached the Wild Boar Hut Rest place at 8.40 a.m. Surprisingly, the two swings in the area have been removed.

When we came to Junction 1, we took the right trail with the aim of visiting the mini waterfall. The trail became narrower and the path was padded with a thick layer of fallen leaves and undergrowth. It took about 20 minutes of downhill trek to reach the mini waterfall. The area was pristine with crystal clear water.

After a short 5 minutes photography session, we hurried up the steep gradient slope to escape from the "ambushing" leeches. We had difficulty tracing the uphill trail as it was obscured by fallen leaves and tree branches. We just pushed on uphill by scrambling through whatever openings between trees and shrubs. Needless to say, there a fair bit of ducking to avoid the sharp vines and low branches. It took us about 30 minutes to scale uphill to hit the peak of 197m asl (reported to be 233m asl) near Junction 2. From here, we proceeded downhill to Junction 3 where we took the right trail to Junction 4 and then the left trail to visit the big waterfall.

We ed around for about 20 minutes before we pushed on at about 11 a.m. to trek back via Junctions 6, 3 and 2 to Summit One. From here, we took the Pupa trail via Junction 8 and exited Entrance B at about 12.50 p.m.

Overall, a good energetic trek of over 4 hours with Ben, Woon (leader), Ting, Muru and wife.

Earlier treks are documented at http://happyotrekker.blogspot.com/2009/10/ahfr-trek-ii-241009.html and http://happyotrekker.blogspot.com/2009/09/ahfr-trek-i-270909.html.

ROUTE TAKEN


For the photographs of this trek, please refer to http://happytrekker.shutterfly.com/pictures/7204.