10th July Bukit Beruntung Post Hash Revisit.

Bukit Beruntung Muckaround Ride:-

 Drove 71 clicks for this ride. Woke up at 0530 hours. Took the usual dump. Left home at 0600 hours for roti canai. Then it was a slow leisure drive towards the start point, Bukit Beruntung. According to Mr Waze, i will take about 65 minutes to arrive. It had better be worth all these to drive so far for a ride.

   Arrived at 0730 and the entire place is devoid of people. Got me a wee bit creeped out for awhile. Stayed in the car and pretended to play with my phone. Then the herds started to trickle in slowly. Pat Lew came and we managed to sort out his flat tyre within minutes. Turn out he had a tiny wire stuck to the tyre causing him to keep getting a flat. Problem fixed and we got ready for the ride to begin.

   The usual mumbo jumbo about how far we plan to ride. Where to go for lunch and some finger waving. Off we went. With Tailook leading the way and someone keeping the herd bunched together in the front and rear. No one asked and no one bothered. It's too early and still not warm enough i guess.
   Into the rubber plantation we went. Single track. Climb climb climb.
   We lost the leading pack after the third climb. Manta tried searching for the tail markers. Failed. Decided we will just follow the preset GPS route and continued riding. Ran into the front group after 10 minutes. Turns out they got lost and ended up somewhere up another hill. Someone farted and we continued riding again.
   More single tracks. Flowy and shaded for most part.
   Came to a clearing for hike a bike and the herd obediently lined up to walk. Regrouped at the top. Phones came flying out for selfies, wefies and godknowswhatfie is there. Technology still confuses me. I decided to just sit quietly at a corner and count phones. I counted 34 phones... I gave up at 34.
   Short break and chat. Then off again we went into the trail. This time into palm oil and mix of rubber plantations. The usual flowy and shaded trail. This is much better than expected. Trail went on like that for the next hour.

   Caught up with the group at the climb towards the palm oil plantation and we decided to stop and watch Peter Wong repair his broken chain. Ride continued after he was done. It was a good 15 minutes well spent. Watching riders repair bikes in the forest is fun...

   Off we went, more singletracks again till we appeared at the little village called Sungai Buaya for water refill and more selfie wefie thingy... Gave the group a good 20 minutes to do their phone and photo update before we continued into the trail again. A bunch of them found a pile of durians and started feasting on it. They enjoyed it. A few continued on towards the desert.
   The desert part had most of us hanging our tongue out for ventilation... My memory failed me. I did not remember this bit being so long and sloggy. Staring at dried river beds and counting rocks was not what i recalled. It was a good 3 clicks of staring and talking to the rocks on the ground before we arrived back into secondary forest for relief from the sun.
   Took a break and waited for the bunch to arrive before we proceeded towards the river crossing which will take us back towards our car.

   Like obedient lemmings, we waited at the river bank. Staring at the muddy murky water. Unsure if we should proceed now or wait. Finally after 2 minutes of intense discussion, we managed to convince Peter Wong to let MJ go first. Its always best for the herd to sacrifice the young and gullible ones. Seeing MJ still complete and alive across the river, the rest followed and continued with the ride.
   Rode up another singletrack and through a bushy trail, we emerged right across the car park. All smiles and sigh of relief....
   Another ride done and dusted....

  'Unbelievable.