Air Itam dam - Tarrapin trail - Penang Hill
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 9.25 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,726 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 1,040 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,567 ft
- TrailRank
- 19
- Min elevation
- 829 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 4 hours 59 minutes
- Time
- 6 hours 59 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2667
- Uploaded
- March 9, 2024
- Recorded
- March 2024
near Kampung Cantik, Pulau Pinang (မလေးရှား)
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Itinerary description
Terrapin trail no longer recommended. Requires some difficult detours.
About 300m after beginning of trail, fallen trees and heavy thicket block trail. Go up on left bank for a few meters, proceed at that elevation for 50m, then cross riverbed on your right below, climb up riverbank, go in rightward direction until you meet easily visible original trail again.
After another 700m, do not make original sharp leftward u- turn, but go straight until you join riverbed, follow it for about 40m, then to right, going back down to river before old bridge, climb riverbank, turn rightward to find trail again.
Terrapin trail also requires several times crawling under fallen trees on all four.
Requires ability, good sense of direction. Do not attempt alone. If you get into trouble, there is no phone signal.
About 300m after beginning of trail, fallen trees and heavy thicket block trail. Go up on left bank for a few meters, proceed at that elevation for 50m, then cross riverbed on your right below, climb up riverbank, go in rightward direction until you meet easily visible original trail again.
After another 700m, do not make original sharp leftward u- turn, but go straight until you join riverbed, follow it for about 40m, then to right, going back down to river before old bridge, climb riverbank, turn rightward to find trail again.
Terrapin trail also requires several times crawling under fallen trees on all four.
Requires ability, good sense of direction. Do not attempt alone. If you get into trouble, there is no phone signal.
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Tried the tarrapin trail. Can still hike. Followed the advice, manage to get back to original trail. Only the first blockage was a bit challenging to find the way. The second blockage was way better than the first. The rest of the trail, still manageable especially the fallen trees part
Need to becareful with the steps as certain parts are narrow and the person might fall from height
Noticed a leech too on the fallen tree trunk.