Night Hiking at MacLehose Stage 4-8

There is a need for such a way of Walking at night as we would go through one night of walking through the darkness during the 100KM Trail of Oxfam Trailwalker, even you are the Super Trail walker that can complete the 100Km in 12 hours. Then you may reach the finish point at 1100pm, still there are 5 hours of night walk. It is a Must for your eyes to adapt to the lighting condition on your LED head lamp and walk safely at night.
We did this for the first time of the year on the next day of Mid Autumn Festival on 24 September this year. We started at 2100 at Sui Long Wo and ended at 0800 depending on when your legs can carry you to...
I did only stage 4 as I had an appointment with the dentist next morning. Attached picture shows starting point that everyone looked so fresh and groommy... well, I can not post the picture of how we looked at the end of the day... We look.. ShiX!
Well. the best of the night walk is that you will sleep so soundly the next day additional 6 hours, and had so good appetite that you never had normally..
Note that a man need 1380 Calories a day only and this hours of hiking will take you away about 600 Calories a hour and a Hamburger will cause you additional 500 calories, and a Can of Regular Coco Cola is another 400 Calories!. So you should note that there is too much to eat.. then the belly will never get slim. The key is eating less and exercise more.
HK Snob

The Most difficult stage of MacLehose Hiking Trail

Stage Four is the longest and hardest trail of the 100Km of MacLehose Trail, the total length is around 13KM. with Ma On Shan as the first obstacle that you have to conquer.
Today there was hot weather warning, it was about 33 degrees, though we starteds at 0800 this morning, still we could feel the heat wave when we clawed up the mountain. We stopped our hiking at Kwun Yin Temple after 5 hours of good work out. I met KK Chan at end of the stage 4 who was moving fast and overtaken us in a few seconds.
Well. We will go for a night walk after the Mid Autumn Festival on 24 Sept.
We hope that the weather will be more favourable.

HK Snob

Hiking to Penang Hill

I had been there long long time ago when I worked in Penang as an engineer for the Semiconductor industries. Recently we went there again starting from Northern of Penang, went trough 2 hills before reach 3rd one Penang Hill (Peak) and when downhill again.
We went trough couple of bush trail, jungle trail, 30m 75 degress rope climb, rock climb, bike trail & single tar road for Jeep track.. Faced giant jungle aunts, mosquito, snakes, lizards and bugs, and likely prehistorical dinosaurs foot prints! Is a pretty challenging as friend of mine said.

From top of the hill we can see entire Georgetown (World Heritage Site), opposite site main land Butterworth as well as paddy field & another mountain..
The paranormal view is what we have taken while early of this month. The (12 sided Geometric block) building at the midst is Komtar where Komtar” stands for Komplex Tun Abdul Razak – (2nd picture from top) Abdul Razak was the second Prime Minster) still the tallest building in Penang total of 65 story. It was built in 1974-1986 when it completed with total height 232m (761.2 ft). In 1983 while building still under construction, 43rd floor caught Fire and destroyed all the floors above. Fireman unable to put the fire down due to its height, and the flame burnt out after 8 hrs. I was not there luckily, but good friend of mine Bok Sim told me as he was just 5 years old, but his brain still have the horrible fire scene from the TV and local newspaper at the time.

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