Distance: 31-32km from Liang Trailhead
Elevation gain: 2,800m+ from Liang Trailhead
Rated: 7.5/10
Gunung Tumang Batak... For Gunung Liang to give me such a goosebump, Gunung T.Batak is the worst especially if you hiking here from Liang. The start of the trail is as from Gunung Liang West Peak. At the West Peak, there another trail on your left from where you enter if I recall. The trail to Tumang Batak from this point onward do have a clear path but I don't very like the path here for it eeriness. The trail from Liang Peak to Tumang Batak is 5km one way and take another 4-5hours to and back. NOTE: there is no water point along this trail!! (There one but required to walk down quite a distance, tend to be avoided
Elevation gain: 2,800m+ from Liang Trailhead
Rated: 7.5/10
Gunung Tumang Batak... For Gunung Liang to give me such a goosebump, Gunung T.Batak is the worst especially if you hiking here from Liang. The start of the trail is as from Gunung Liang West Peak. At the West Peak, there another trail on your left from where you enter if I recall. The trail to Tumang Batak from this point onward do have a clear path but I don't very like the path here for it eeriness. The trail from Liang Peak to Tumang Batak is 5km one way and take another 4-5hours to and back. NOTE: there is no water point along this trail!! (There one but required to walk down quite a distance, tend to be avoided
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| Gunung Liang and Gunung T.Batak (2 ways) [Note: elevation wise is only around ~2800m+] https://www.strava.com/activities/1630926627 |
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The path can be kinda describe as "dark and eerie" even during bright day, well for me at least and the trail is full of thorny stem along the path where it will really hurt if you are not careful. The trail start with a downhill then later an uphill climb toward camp duit and big boulder stone.
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| Gunung Liang in view (toward T.Batak) |
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| Big Boulder Rock (Camp Duit is just 10 second ahead) |
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| Very Small Campsite |
We took roughly 40-45minutes to reach this point and it only 2km in of the total 5km toward Tumang Batak. After this point, it a downhill walk to reach your final climb, roughly 1.5km non-stop 300m+ steep climb to Tumang Batak. Hellish is all I can say...
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| Toward T. Batak |
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| Toward T. Batak |
After that 1hr30min+++ of "crazy climb", we finally reach the peak which is just another mossy peak.
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| There a path that will continue on to Chondong Geliting (another peak, Trans-Slim route) |
The peak of Tumang Batak is cold even though there was sun shinning down. It was also eerie as I remember. Though with nothing much to see here, we refill and then headed back to Liang Trailhead. The climb back to Liang Peak is also horrible even though there a nice downhill run from T.Batak peak, but the two climb (one toward Camp Duit and another back to Liang Peak) can be very exhausting.
Altogether, we took 2hr30min to go to Tumang Batak and then 2hr back to Liang Peak only for an average fast pace. Might take some 5-6 hours to and back for this journey.
I won't really say it worth the trip to reach this peak unless you doing Trans-Slim or training purpose. For a comparison, this journey is quite similar to Gunung Semangkok but I would still say this mountain is tougher. Do make sure you do not overestimate yourself before doing this journey!
Edited:
27 September 2018
