Carpet, Tun Sardon, Balik Pulau, Pondok Upeh

Date: 1/Jan/2010 (Friday)
Riders: Ang, Freddy, Ong, Woei Tong & Ch'ng
Duration: 7:00am ~ 11:30pm
Route: Parkview > Sungai Ara Single Trail > Carpet > Jln. Tun Sardon > Balik Pulau (Breakfast) > Pondok Upeh > Carpet > Cherry Blossom > Relau > Parkview

Ong ride up from Paya Terubong to join us at Parkview. We proceed to Sungai Ara single trail to ascend up to Carpet.

Its my 3rd. ride up carpet and I'm still struggling with some pushing to reach carpet. Still got lots of training before I can ride up carpet without pushing. Sigh.....

It's Ong's 1st. ride up carpet, so as with most first time rider up carpet, some pushing is the order of the day.

From carpet, we decide to descend to Balik Pulau but our "captain" Ang was not sure of the trail to use. So, it was more of a trial & error decision.
Fortunately, while deciding if its the correct trail, we met up with Ang's friends who also wanted to descend to Balik Pulau. We were glad to meet Ah Hoo, Ooi and Steven.
We team up with the 3 of them and made our descend thru orchards & farms and exit halfway down Jalan Tun Sardon.

On exiting we met up with some of the trailing end of Malakoff's riders. We join in until we reach the Rapid Bus station where we decide to stop for breakfast.

After breakfast, we moved on to Pondok Upeh and ascend back to Carpet. It was really a tough ascend and Woei Tong, Ong and me actually did more hiking with our bike than riding. Obviously, Woei Tong has not recovered from KAWAT'09.

It was really an energy sapping climb up from Pondok Upeh to Carpet for me. However, Ang, Ch'ng and the 3 new friends have no problem with the climb.
Thanks to Ah Hoo, Ooi and Steven for showing us the trail. This is a new trail for us.
Whether we will do it again in the near future? Well, I will definitely think twice.

From Carpet we bade farewell to our 3 new friends. We descend towards Cherry Blossom while they descend towards Sungai Ara.





























































































































































































































































































































































































New friends....Steven & Ooi...



































That's Ah Hoo....another new friend....don't let the squatting down fool you....he's fast & furious...