Traveling: Climb Mount Dempo

Tanggal 10 Otober 2014

Palembang city have been covered by haze since 2 month that is not good for healthy. My friend and i agree to climb Mt Dempo to refresh our mind and get new air. The first we decide the schedule to go to pagaralam and climb Mt Dempo. We agree to go on October, 10 2014 and come back to Palembang on Sunday night. There are much consideration for our planning. First, both my freind and i must get absence for college and work.

After we get the schedule, we prepare for the first our advanture.first, we difficult to find people that have experience climb Mt Dempo. i try to call my nephew in pagaralam that have already climb Mt Dempo once. In fact, he cannot join. My friend, Roni call her friend that is a guide Mt Merapi in Padang but he also cannot join. Although, my friend and i only will go for the advanture we keep optimis that will be implement. There is no people in our office know about our planning. We find information the place for rent equipment climbing and get one. We buy and rent the equipment step by step in Edelwais store. The first we buy clothes, pants, jacket,hat, and carrier and rent two matras and a camp consist of two-three people

All prepare is complete. We go on Friday evening at 9 PM to Pagaralam by travel. On the way we can not sleep and arrive on tugu Rimau or start climbing track at 4 AM. The driver take a rest and also we slept in the car till sunrise. we met other climber that are from Bengkulu, surround climber and also Mapala Unsri. After rechek our prepare, we shock because we forget buy fresh water for climbing and it is impossible for down to find market. So we find exbottles and fed raw water from Mt Dempo. So by three bottles of fresh water We start climb at 8 AM. from the first climb the track is always uphill. We climb without take a rest. The weather is friendly for climber at the time. We keep climb and stop just for alteration bring the carrier. I was dissappointed on the way are much rubbish from the climber it self. We reach the top dempo at 1 PM and the next track is decrease the top dempo to the climber base camp (pelataran). We arrive to the base camp at 2 PM and the wether is cold and directly build a camp. After that i follow other climber to take water for drink and cook noodles and continue to climb Mt Dempo Merapi Top with other climber for around 30 minutes. in this spot, we feel excited cause the weather is fresh and beutiful scenary on the peak and freedom cause we proud success to pass all track of Mt Dempo that has 65^o-90^o slope. i try to do adzan and also other climber,we hope the color of the peak change be light green. After we are satisfied to take much picture on the peak We return to basecamp at 6 PM.

The sunset has gone and the weather is very cool. My friend is in camp and he can not do at all cause the weather. I turn on campfire to make our body more hot, but the weather is worst for me and i return to camp and try to sleep. but we cannot sleep . we were chilled to the bone even though we should have been very warm. I worry about my friend condition cause he were chilled to the bone, i try to covere all of his body but it is not help at all. So we try to sleep closer. On the midnigt it my turn that i was chilled to the bone so we cannot sleep at all.

Finally, The sunrise is look. We feel happy but the weather is not change. Cause the weather we feel the blood in my body is froozen but we must go out from the camp. I take source water after that we disassemble the camp. After that, we continue down from Mt Dempo at 7 AM trough Rimba track and around 3 hours we arrive in the first climb door at 10 AM.that is our advanture on Mt Dempo 3159 Mdpl.

these are some picture on the track and the peak Mt Dempo