“Finally
I can see… everything from above, on the high place called mountain…”
(Sindoro
Mountain)
First of all I’d like to thank
God cause finally I made it… I climbed Sindoro Mountain with my own feet, Yatta!!!
That was great, undefined, awesome and cool. Sindoro has hypnotized me with its
breath taking beauty. I love it, so much. I got my magic moment there, with the
one I love so much (I guess it was the best part).
On 15th and 16th
of December 2012, I was there. In advance there were only three persons but in
the end there were fourteen! Amazing, I got more friends there, nice. The
planner said that we would climb before afternoon, but it was rain. We could do
nothing but wait in the Kledung base camp. We started the journey from Watu
Gede (the gate to the Sindoro Mountian) at 6 pm, and then it happened… I was
shock, like I wanted to lose my consciousness (well maybe because I did
exercise not so often) I took a break so many times and my breath was getting harder
and harder. I thought that I couldn’t continue the journey but my heart and
mind told me to go on. I forced myself to continue my journey, ‘because I
didn’t wanna give up just like that. I looked back and saw my lover came (in
the same condition as mine), and I realized why
don’t we walk together? Unbelievable, step by step, slow but sure we did
it. I know that he gave me more strength to go on, we did it together.
Because “snail” mode on, we were
parted with the first team and we got lost, nice! We didn’t pass first and
second shelters. My friend (the only expert in my team) led us to find the way,
we chose the wrong route and unfortunately we took the extreme one. Was it my
good luck or bad luck? As my first climbing, I got the hard one, gee… the track
was much harder than the right one, we found the dead end several times and had
to find another way. I remember it was 11 pm when we took a break and began to
think about giving up. I just stopped on the slope, take a deep breath, enjoyed
Sumbing Mountain and the lights below from where I stood, and held his hand to
strengthen ourselves. We decided to continue and one of us found the right way,
we could saw the first team gave the sign with their flashlight. I was glad
even though we were on different hills. The sweeper “snail” team reached the
camp on shelter 3 at 12.30 pm, and it was cold there. I just thought that my
first climbing was too much, but I didn’t mind because it was the real
adventure. Lost in a mountain at night and it was rain, sounds cool, LOL.
Because that was my first time, I
learned how to survive in a low temperature, how to find a good place to spend
the night, how to build a tent (I just watched actually), how to cooperate with
others because we’re far from home, and so many things. In the morning I got a
magic moment because I could see the amazing scenery from the high place with
my only one. Enjoyed the natural scenery, fresh air and sweet sunshine together
was one of beautiful things we had there. I do love mountain.
One thing I regret was: I didn’t
join the “summit attack”. I was too exhausted so I couldn’t go to the top of
Sindoro, I couldn’t see the highest place of this mountain or see edelweiss
flowers, so sad. Someday I’ll be back and reach the top (with no wrong track, definitely).
For the first time, for beginner like me, reach 2530 meter above sea level (m
asl) was good enough.
All of us started to go down at 3
pm, and it was raining. There was no break, but still: slow but sure. We just
needed more or less three hours to reach the base camp. Overall, Sindoro as my
first mountain had given me a great experience that I’ll never forget. Now I’m
heading to my next mountain, Ganbatte!!!
Rega_deta
18/12/2012
5 comments:
I am very glad because tree photo that I took, you upload it on the top in your story. Forest odyssey feels thrilling, nature is so beautiful in the teaching of life and how our personal can looked when we in wild. Continue your adventure, I hope you do not give up on what happened yesterday. Maybe it is because my negligence as a human :)
I won't give up just like that bro..no doubt about that, i'm still looking forward for the next climbing :)
and thank you coz you helped me to feel the real adventure. I really appreciate that, we have unforgetable moment that day, yippie!!!
*2thumbsup*
how long does it take to the top?
sorry for the lateness...
ehmmm...normally it needs more or less 6 hours, but that time we spent three hours more...hahaa
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