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Gunung Gap (approx 5000ft) Fraser Hill, Pahang Date : 12 July 2008 (Saturday) Time : 7.30am Difficulty : Medium Trekking Duration : Approximate 2 hours ascending and 2 hours descending. Meeting Point : Lafuma Bangsar Fee (for transport & guide) : RM60 (LMAG members) RM80 (non LMAG members) Transportation : By van (provided) Food : Not included. Participants are advised to bring own food for breakfast and lunch meal, cutlery, snacks, torch, trekking poles. Organiser : YellowStone Sdn Bhd (Lafuma Malaysia) Shop Online Please register at our shop or sent us your registration via email to lafumalaysia@gmail.com or customercare@lafuma.com.my *** Registration close on 5 July 2008. Limited seat only. First come first serve basis! *Please bring along your LMAG membership card if you are member. Agenda 07:30 Meet at Lafuma Bangsar and start journey to Fraser Hill. 12:30 Expected to reach the peak of Gunung Gap. 18:30 Expected to reach Lafuma Bangsar. * Sc

Gunung Yong Yap (7113FT / 2168M) Kg Lasah, Sungai Siput , Perak Date : 25/07/08 - 27/07/08 (Friday - Sunday) Grade : Advance Meeting Point : Lafuma Bangsar Fee : RM265 /= Things included in the fee : Guides, 4x4 transportation to start point, porter (to carry tent only). Things to brings : Backpack (abount 30L - 40L), trekking attire, extra clothes and socks, trekking shoes, sandals, water, rain jacket, fleece, tent, food, stove, first aid kit, toiletries, sleeping bag, camping mat, dry bag, camera and etc. ***Registration closed on 13th July 2008 Contact : Mr Zaidi (016-4423519) - PAC Mr Wong PK (012-5435612) - PAC Mr Ng (012-4595012) -LMAG Organizer : Penang Adventure Club (PAC) with collaboration with Lafuma Malaysia Adventure Group (LMAG).

LMAG June activity start with leisure & light trip to Sg. Pisang Waterfall, located at Gombak, Selangor. The trip guided and lead by Apip. The line up for this trip start with, Azman, Edina, Englebert, Hui Gee, Godfrey, Khairul, Mardiah, Teoh, Claire, Susan, Goh, Ken with his 2 kids, Rebecca & Ethan. Another of our crew member, Muzammil act as sweeper and also our official photographer. At the begining of our journey, it's look like a walk in recreation park before we head to a stream nearby. During our walk, we saw some other visitors enjoying at one of the river stream. We go further to reach for the waterfall, deep in jungle. Our first river crossing was at the small water treatment dam at Sg. Gombak. We have to cross the Karak Highway... using the tunnel below. The journey becomes like Indiana Jones trails. Hemmmm minus the enemy. We have to cross a few river path. Some of us does not prepared to get wet on the journey. Crossing river again and again makes them take off

PACE – I could not keep pace with the leader. Scenery – as a very visual person, I was not able to enjoy the thick jungle undergrowth as I struggled to keep pace so as not to be left behind. The simple act of tying up my boot laces could make me lose sight of those in front. As there were much low shrubs, branches and thorns, my boot laces became undone quite a number of times. Gunung means mountain – one needs to pull herself/himself up in various steep pitches. My alpine Millet boots were not meant for jungle trekking. Thus I was not able to have any foothold on the loose jungle soil. There were also no handholds ( no roots or branches to grab onto to pull oneself up.) There was a scary moment of sliding down about 10 feet with nothing to hold on to!) I was saved by the sweeper 'man' who moved ahead and cut down a branch for me to hold, passed me a very thin rope (about 5mm thick I think) and another guy planting his foot for me to step on to climb up. Whew! Was I exhausted

Coming 5th June 2008 the whole world will be celebrating World Environment Day 2008 (WED 2008) . This year slogan is “Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy” . In conjunction with the WED 2008, we at Lafuma Malaysia will be offering our customers a special discount of 20% on all our Lafuma “Pure Leaf Collection” products from 4th June 2008 till 8th June 2008 . Shop Online Lafuma Pure Leaf Collection is a sustainable development project undertaken by Lafuma International as part of our effort to contribute to our mother earth. 10% of the proceeds from the Lafuma Pure Leaf Collection will be donated to World Wildlife Fund (WWF). You can do your part as well by helping to save our planet earth on your own ways, be it involved in recycling, replanting, car-pooling, using public transport, say no to open burning and etc. Register your WED 2008 activity by showing how you would like to help or ideas on how what you can do to help at http://www.unep.org/wed

Special dedication to all fathers during the coming Father's Day, we have special offer on Lafuma down jacket (Inuit II Parka) with 20% discounts from the original price of RM999. Save RM199.80 with this special purchase this month! Click image to enlarge.

Prolog Shop Online Mt Hitam is one of the mountain in Selangor. The locals and villages (Hulu Langat residents) near that mountain call it Bukit (hill) Hitam. When I heard some of our local mountain seekers call it as mountain, I went and check it out with our government Land Office official topography map of that location. To my surprise it was labeled as Gunung Hitam with height of 1210m. Side by side; river stream and our trail. For more photo visit one of our participant web photo gallery azharali photo gallery - apip embi -

This June 2008, Lafuma members (LMAG) will enjoy 15% discounts on Tek jacket (fleece) for men and women, M Nampala sandal, LD Semara sandal and Namik 45L backpack. For non-members, we have 10% discounts for Spine 15L daypack, Fragment laptop bag and Warm N Light 600 sleeping bag which suitable for temperature from 11 to -5 degree Celsius.