#208 - Hiking

Since Saturday was MTB day, Sunday automatically

becomes hiking day :-)

This Sunday hike again started from McRitchie Reservoir.

I am still being plagued by this sickness called 'waking up late'

sickness and so I started the hike at 10AM. I was, however,

making good time as I have started to become familiar

with this hiking thing and the routes. The thing now is,

since there's only a limited area in Singapore for hiking

and trail running, the place is so crowded it's beginning

to look like a shopping mall...

... and so I ducked into the Petai Trail ... which was

a bad idea since I started late. Petai Trail added 2.25km

to my walk. It was a nice boardwalk 'trail' though.

At the end of Rifle Range Link, I saw a group

of hikers who seemed to be, first, doing an adventure

type race and second, lost :-) Good thing I heard them

speaking in my native language and so I didn't

let them go in a complete circle and pointed them

to the direction of Bukit Timah. Ah, that's my good

deed for the day taken care of.

Once, I was in the vicinity of BT, I went in

to check out this trail called Catchment Path ... oooohh

another one of my bad ideas. It consisted of stair climbs!

I think it will eventually lead to the Bukit Timah

Summit. It was already 1PM and I'm hungry and so

I wussed out and turned left to Cave Path...

I think I will come back here next week and

scour the area. Seems to me this place offers some

serious Zen experience.