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001 Jerai via Tupah. 22 July 2017

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Distance
4.03 mi
Elevation gain
3,753 ft
Technical difficulty
Difficult
Elevation loss
558 ft
Max elevation
3,926 ft
TrailRank 
58
Min elevation
374 ft
Trail type
One Way
Time
14 hours 48 minutes
Coordinates
586
Uploaded
July 23, 2017
Recorded
July 2017
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near Kampong Bukit Karong, Kedah (မလေးရှား)

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Photo of001 Jerai via Tupah. 22 July 2017 Photo of001 Jerai via Tupah. 22 July 2017 Photo of001 Jerai via Tupah. 22 July 2017

Itinerary description

Rarely used trail. Damn steep when approaching the top e.i. from the height of 1030m to 1218m. Have to use rope and rope ladder at most of these points.

Waypoints

PictographPhoto Altitude 599 ft
Photo ofCheck Point 1

Check Point 1

Taken as the first check point just after the Tupah Loji area.

PictographPhoto Altitude 812 ft
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Huge rock beds.

Huge wall of rock beds along the Tupah River. The bed is on the left when moving upstream.

PictographPhoto Altitude 857 ft
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Batu putih

White rocks as if it was painted white. Sumtimes this white rocks are confusing, it looks like water flowing above a spread granite. There can see layers of quartz veins across the rocks.

PictographPhoto Altitude 928 ft
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Check Point 2

Beautiful and amazing water fall. 2 rivers join into one. Good to stop, to do camping and to swim. At this point too, there is another trail on the left to reach the peak of Kedah. The trail is in our plan for future trip.

PictographPhoto Altitude 1,460 ft
Photo ofHerba point

Herba point

As we are moving away from the Tupah river, species of Eurycoma sp. encountered along the trail up to the roofing.

PictographPhoto Altitude 1,666 ft
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Luboq putaq

Wild boar pond. I do not how many of them drilling the soil. Lol!

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,087 ft
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Check Point 4

Moving away from the Tupah river and head towards the roofing.

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,308 ft
Photo ofCheck Point 5

Check Point 5

Start to feel the cool breeze.

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,485 ft
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Check Point 6

Another nice place for R&R.

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,510 ft
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Check Point 7

Getting higher.

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,323 ft
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Check Point 8

800m dpl.

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,427 ft
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Mossy

Mossy. Who say Jerai has no mossy?

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,555 ft
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Check Point 9

Last check point, managed to fix. The dark is coming...

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,782 ft
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Entah

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,922 ft
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Pasang lampu

It's time to light the Ultraman indicator and to get ready with the headlamp.

PictographPhoto Altitude 3,344 ft
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Night in the wild

PictographPhoto Altitude 3,716 ft
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Stuck for more than 2 hours

Appreciating the night view of Gurun and Bedong areas,

PictographPhoto Altitude 3,910 ft
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End Point

Managed to reach the peak at 1:30am.

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