sipek geng adventure~~

Jared~~

hahha... its easter holidays!! and midsems for us so me my friends, matthew, jonathan, jean and candy went to glasshouse mountain for a hiking experience... and mountain climbing too... its just about one hour from here in brisbane towards sunshine coast... It was overall and awesome experience and the last time I had this kind of experience was in national service back in malaysia...

So we set out early in the morning to jon's house to have an easter breakfast... then we went to the city to get our rented car... we droved around looking for the place and found it finally around noon... we 1st reached mount beerwah, which is awesome looking bt too bad its closed due to rock fall and i dunno wat... hahaha... matt and i decided to come back to that mountain one day when it is open again...

our car...

mt beerwah....

then we finally reached mount tibrogargan, as recommended by jean's boss... estimated time 3 hours, i thought it was easy at 1st bt we reached at one part tat we had to climb a quite steep slope... almost 90 degrees...

the steep path

peekaboo!!

the easy path....

I actually fell and slip when i climbed the 1st steep part... and my confidence go down so fast tat i was so depressed... the remaining route to the summit looked so hard and all i can do was just sitting at the side looking at matthew climb like a spider... it was really dangerous, one slip and we are gone.. the rest of the gang couldnt make it up too...

I just sat down looked out at the scenery, calmed myself down, told myself, I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me! Bt I need to have common sense too!! one slip im gone.. this mountain is just for experienced climbers and im not... Bt i just tried little by little and finally i reached the summit.. was really happy tat I could climb up a really dangerous one...

Danger

Took photo on the summit...

So that was day 1, after the climbing we went to the camp site, which was full of mosquitoes aka mozzies or mossies.... set up our tent while spamming insect repellent... was really a funny experience... we had a bbq eating sausages and chickens!! was really awesome... at nite the guys went and squeeze in jean's new tent plus the mozzies, while I sleeping in Matt's tent without any mozzies and plenty of space... ^^ seriously i slept for 6 hours that nite... fuh...

sausages!!


bbq with torchs!


candy and jean

Day 2 was just nt so good, with the rain nt stopping at all!! it was really raining cats and dogs the whole day!! I keep praying for the rain to stop bt really it kept on going.... So we just ignored the rain and went to the next mountain which is Mt Brumbrum... its was just steep walk all the way till the top which was nt so satiesfying...

We then head to the next one which was Mt Ngungun, the mountain that we avoided all along because of not so good rumours bout it... So only me, matt and jean went up, coz jon was tired and needs sleep while candy doesnt wan to get wet.. we set out again, at 1st was just easy tracks bt later we found out tat we must climb up... bt it was nt as dangerous as Mt Tibrogargan... With rain pouring down our faces, walking and climbing against the wind, we finally reached the summit which to our surprise was the best scenery we ever seen...

matt and jean halfway..

going up!


matt high up!

I call this place dragonland.... A place where nobody ever stepped foot into, a place where dragons came and visit this place 1000 years once, and to lay eggs to continue the generation of dragons... ^^

The other peak... we actually ran there, coz of the rain and wind, it was too cold! I couldnt take it and just ran as fast as I could to the other peak, it was really nice standing up there, the clouds blowing against you, its wonderful....

I wish I can come again, which we will... to challenge this wonderful mountains again, and also the awaiting Mt Beerwah.... Cheers...