Fire in the mountains

Actually this weekend I have a plan to climb Mount Gede. Too bad that it closed until the end of September 2012. The park office decided that it was too risky to open the mountain for climbing in this dry season. Especially after there were some cases of forest fire in some mountains, like Papandayan, Slamet, Agung, etc. Some said that the fire happened because dry season is so intense this year, but it also happened after some hikers built fires carelessly during their camping in the mountains.

Pic of fire in Mount Papandayan (by Koran Jakarta)

Trip to Mount Sanggara (1.925 mdpl)

Last weekend I went to Bandung and climbed Mount Sanggara with Kelana Indra and Fajar PY. We used two bikes From Bandung to Dago Giri then to Maribaya and Bukittunggul plantation. After parking the bikes at Pak Iin's house in Pangli village, we started hiking around 2 PM Saturday. That afternoon we made camp at one area known as Taman Survival or Survival Garden. Here we share info about how to use flysheet for tent, how to build fire and then we got talking untill around 9 PM before sleeping. On Sunday we broke camp then continued to the top. At some point we decided to go direct and using machete to cut open the new track. Finally around 10 AM we got the top of Mount Sanggara. Here we found other hikers. We got down to Pangli Village then continued to Bandung and back to Jakarta. Sanggara is a small mountain but it is perfect to train your survival and orienteering skills.

trip to mount papandayan

weekend 16-17 June 2012. Mount Papandayan located in Garut, West Java, Indonesia. We made camp at Tegal Alun, an edelweiss-covered field not far from Papandayan craters.

trip to mount gede 2-3 June 2012

again, went hiking to mount gede. Now as part of Mountmag, Indonesian mountaineering e-magz, first anniversary. Camp at Suryakencana Valley.

trip to mount gede 26-27 May 2012

went to Avtech Jamboree at Suryakencana Mt Gede

Back to Mount Gede

Last week I went back hiking to Mount Gede via Gunung Putri route. Arrived at Gunung Putri after midnight, we spent the night at Pak Jalaludin's house. Saturday morning (5/5), we began hiking. This time i joined the team KPAWW Jakarta. The weather was nice although rather cloudy near 12 am. The path leading to old information house had been cleared from bushes, and the park management also had built stairways to help hikers. Feeling sad after found that the new Pos 1 now was in ruins. Someone stolen the roof so now we could not stay at that post. After six hours we reached the west part of Lembah Suryakencana. We made camps at the usual site, near the waterhole. That night the moon was looked bigger as it was a supermoon. But i didn't take pictures as it was quite cold outside and prefer spent the night inside the tent. Sunday morning, we had breakfast then broke camps. Hiking down to Gunung Putri again, we got soaked by heavy rain which falling after we passed Pos 3. The rain stopped after near 3pm.

Back to Mount Pangrango

Thursday (5/4), we went from Kampung Rambutan bus terminal to Cibodas, the starting point to hike Mount Gede and Mount Pangrango.
Friday (6/4) we started hiking at 8 am. Here we were 15 people from OANC (Outdoor Adventure and Nature Club), a hiking chapter from Kaskus forum. At 1pm we had arrived at Air Panas shelter and we had to wait for others to catch up. After lunch, we continued to Kandang Badak shelter and made camps.
Our original plan was to continue to Pangrango but we decided to camp instead as some from our groups was tired.
Saturday (7/4), Started hiking from 10am and we arrived at the peak of Pangrango at 1pm. The weather was clear. We made camps at Lembah Mandalawangi that night.
Sunday (8/4), After breakfast, we broke camps and hiking down to Cibodas. Started from Mandalawangi at 9am and arrived at Cibodas at 4pm.