Kemensah exploration - 24 Dec 08

Our newbies friends Shawal and Rostan invited me to come along on their Kemensah tour of the Kemensah Jungle. After hearing him describe the trip, it didn’t take much convincing. Who wouldn’t want to leave the house behind in favor of warm weather, 300 meter peaks, cloud forests and wonderful descend? Typically the trails started off quite a mix of very tight technical trails. Most of them included, often deeply grooved by Mother Nature and the rainy season. As we got down to lower elevation, they usually opened up a bit, sometimes into flowing singletrack

The terrain ranged from rugged rocks to soft loamy dirt to muddy road and the trails ranged from extremely dense forest singletrack to wide open dirt roads and anything in between as we navigated our ways down the hillsides.Our trail starts from Zoo Negara via the Kemensah village until Jinbara chalets. The trails did present which after the two fish ponds, the occasional climb and sometimes we would hike-a-bike up the side of the hill in search of the next epic descent.

One of the big climb you would be pushing up regardless of what bike you had. Although a few of these seemed to go on forever, once we started down again, it was always worth the effort. With limited info about this trail, we made up our mind to explore and hopefully we end up the right way. We found out, actually the trail we choose were like a loop and somehow we end up at the first hill where we started.We always moved along at the group speed, and there was never any pressure to get somewhere at a specific time. When we arrived at the cars, somehow we always seemed to arrive at just the right time.