emm…as usual, i have the habit of writing “the 2nd last post” before writing the “the last post” article prior to any travel adventure. hehehehe. but i think, its ok, since its kinda like a list of things that i have to take into account before travelling.

Issues

we actually have a big issue at hand. rinjani becomes active since may 2009. This is not welcomed at all. i think they have raised the alert level to level III. basically, at this warning level, you have to stay away from the center of eruption at a radius of 2-3 km. this means that we cannot camp at plawangan sembalun. we can go up to plawangan but have to go down as soon as possible. this makes all planning go hairwire.

change of plan

so…we have to change our plan. we have few choices. 1st choice is to climb up to the 3rd post, camp there, and go up at the wee hour of the next morning and try to catch the sunrise at plawangan. after that, we descend to post 3 or maybe we can go out straight to sembalun lawang. if we choose this option, we are going to take 2-3 days in rinjani alone.

2nd choice is like the 1st one but originate from senaru. its gonna be hell of a journey since it is longer. just imagine, the last time that i went to rinjani, we took like a day to trek down from segara anak to senaru. And the best part was… we were running. cant u imagine if we were not to run and…we trek up from senaru. Its going to take, not twice but thrice the amount of time to get to senaru plawangan. we have to camp somewhere. So the plan will be 2 days of trekking up and 2 days of going out to senaru. this will taxed up the time in bali. basically, we will not have time in bali. maybe 1/2 to 1 day only.

3rd choice is to scrap rinjani. proceed with plan C: bali touring…emm emmm…so hard to resist

GR – General Reminder

I have to get the following things done before the trip:

1. repair shoes, trekking trousers, repair flash?
2. charge slr batteries
3. settle pending jobs….arrghhh. actually i have 2 pending jobs… :-p
4. locate my sleeping bag
5. what else…emm…will write them when i do remember.