04-Mar-2010 4:00PM – Arrived at Kinabalu Park.
04-Mar-2010 5:10PM – Arrived at Bishop’s Head Hostel reception office.
04-Mar-2010 06:40PM – Arrived at the coffee shop in Sutera Sanctuary Lodges for steamboat dinner after a quick shower. It was already freezing cold then – 15°
Our dinner. And it came with a delicious plate of fried rice. The fried rice was very plain but it tasted really good.
05-Mar-2010 07:20AM – My breakfast.
05-Mar-2010 08:30AM – The 15 conquerors prior to the hike to Laban Rata.
My journey to Laban Rata via the Mersilau Trail. We almost missed the 6km sign because it was so ‘extraordinary’! Luckily KC spotted the sign.. while I kept walking straight without noticing the sign.
At the waterfall spotted on the way up.
Still not there yet.. tired, sweaty, no more energy..
05-Mar-2010 04:30PM – We’ve finally reached Laban Rata!
Looking back to where we came from..
Sunset at Laban Rata.
I did not manage to capture any photographs while hiking up to Low’s Peak as I was too afraid to hold my camera. Yup, fear of heights phobia :D
06-Mar-2010 05:50AM – Waiting for the sunrise at Low’s Peak.
Waited for a while to finally get to pose with this board!
Did felt like stepping on the clouds!
That’s about it!
While having a backpack weighing 8-kilograms, there were things that I wished I had brought and things that I did not really utilize.
- Mask – the VVIP! Without this, I’d be freezing to death..
- Head lamp – you won’t have hands to hold a torch light while hiking up in the wee hours.
- Windbreaker – get a super thick one!
- Winter cap – good to cover my ears (and hair, so it would not mess my hair when the wind blew :p)
- Long johns – good to have, else, just put on 4 pieces of clothes like I did.
- Paracetamols – my headache reliever :-)
- Chocolates and energy bars – I was almost always hungry during the whole expedition; ate loads when we were hiking up to Laban Rata; glucose drinks such as Ribena helped too!
- Walking stick – useful for the hike up to Laban Rata only; can be bought there at the cost of RM8.
- Hiking shoes – after the hike, my faithful Timberland hiking shoes were the cleanest pair when compared to the rest haha.
- Poncho – did not use mine as it did not rain; and haven’t been raining for the past 2 months.
- Heat packs – first time seeing a heat pack although I’ve heard about it before; glued 1 heat pack on my first piece of clothe and another in the pocket of my pants.
- Extra batteries for your camera? – used 2 full batteries for my DSLR during the entire 4 days; thought I’d need more but it seems like the cold weather did not really drain my batteries as fast.
