August 17 is the freedom day of
Indonesia, in the same day I was struggling to conquest the mount Panderman.
Mount Panderman is one of batu city icons. This mountain is visible from every
corner of batu city. To climb Mount panderman, there are two routes. The first
route is the most common route via toyomerto village, Pesanggarahan. From
Pesanggarahan you will pass Latar Ombo, where usually climbers can supply water
or camp and the Watu Gede where there are numerous huge rocks and the second
route is very rare known and there are no facilities such as parking area and
water supply as not designed for climbing base and this rote is a shortcut to
summit and this rote is called as Curah Banteng route, a challenging route that
few track is 90 deg awry and can only be reached by climbing method.
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| Enjoying the air and scenery |
In this year I never climbed the
mount before and panderman is my first mount where I was climbing for this
year. Maybe I can’t tell you about my stuffs which I’d prepared for climbing
but I can give you some stories that six of my friends and I had experienced
when we explored this mount.
Start from the old man who we
met in the first way we entered. He looked terrible with his knife for tapping
rubber trees and his dog around him. When we were walking beside him suddenly
he talked to us “You will go peak with 7
persons? You are an odd so you better be couple in group”. We’re afraid of
his advice and you know that’s impossible if one of us left or look for one
member to join our group. However we decided to take any risk together no
matter what the risk we have to keep moving on. Instinct for choosing the true
road we always used it despite we got tired on the middle way and finally we
got the first place for taking a rest and the name is Latar Ombo.
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| Gathering in the relax condition |
It was going to night and we
might not continue journey to the top in the dark n weak condition because it
would be so risk for hiking. So we have to prepare all of our stuffs such as
Tent, Woods for bonfire, Foods and cleared up and you know towards the evening
I took a walk around for checking condition. I didn’t realize that I walked on
and on till got far from our camp in that time I found huge rocks.
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| Sitting on the top of huge rock |
I was looking for kali twig
while checking place and I tell you that the scenery was amazing the voice of
nature and the fresh air condition make me felt in paradise. Before the
darkness around the way I had to come back to the camps. When the night we
already made some bonfire.
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| Making some fire |
For one night there are so many
accidents such as scary winds that blow up our tent and it made us felt cold
even so cold in our skull. In the midnight many of us had gotten cramps and so
sick what we felt in our legs and sometimes made us crying. All just made part
of us couldn’t sleep despite our body so tired. At 2:54 AM we decided to carry
on our journey because if we keep silent it can be killed by the cold air in
Latar ombo. So we walked by using spotlight in the darkness of the road.
Sometime a few of us getting tired and said give up but another reminds us to
keep moving on for conguesting this mountain and get the peak. At 5:37 finally
we could see the sunrise from the top of panderman and see the cities,
mountains even all look so small.
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| Photo of our memory |
Almost a half day we just stayed
away in this place and made crazy things while enjoying beautiful scenery. And
you know this is the final of our destination. And we could sing so many songs
over there. The top of panderman.
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| Geng Ruwet V |
