Penanggungan

In the beginning of 2016 I started my travel to climb. This idea came from my friend, she wanted to climb cause her friend offered to climb on mountain. So we climbed on January second at the end of the day. My friends and I started the trip from Surabaya at 10pm. We went by motorbike we were only six people, two of us have already climbed that mountain. It would help to guide us and one of them was able to read the condition there. There were some advantages to climb if one of member knew about it. We climbed tp Penanggungan Mountain. It’s 1.653 m. This mountain is located at Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia. To get Mojokerto from Surabaya, it took around three hours. The track of this route was easy. You can choose which way you want to go cause there are some ways to get it. We arrived at the first post at 1am. This post was a place for the visitor to get permit and fill a data to climb up the mountain. After we arrived, we took some rest such drinking some coffee, eating some snacks, and sleeping for awhile. Then we began to climb at 2.30am. It was dark but we brought good preparation and some gears but we didn’t bring tend cause we didn’t have a lot of time to stay and it would make heavier to climb. If you want to stay longer than us, it’s better for you to bring tend and you begin to climb earlier at least five hours before my departure so you can enjoy the sun rise in time. As I remembered there five posts. The first was for us to do registration. The second we walked not too far maybe around 30 minutes and the tract still in the flat ground, so it was easy. Then we stopped and got a rest, we sat, drank, and enjoyed that place. The place was like a hut, but no wall and you could sit comfortable. One more thing this place was given you some of coffee or the other drink but you have to pay it and it was cheap, perhaps only for Rp. 3000 till Rp 5.000 for a cup. Fifteen minutes later we climbed again to go to the third post and the track began slopping upward but we still settled our selves. Then took a rest for twenty minutes, we drank mineral water and tried to closed our eyes for some of us. Some were talking with the other visitors and the operator from that mountain, then we continued to the forth post. The tract here more dangerous than before there were some ways such there were two branch in ways. If you didn’t know the track maybe you would lose. The way was straighter than before. Sometimes we stopped first if one of us felt tired. I felt that to go to forth post was longer cause it such like I kept walking but didn’t arrive. Actually that’s the way, longer, and took more time. We just kept walking and so so. But if the weather was good you will see the beautiful moon at night, such like in a fairy tale story, really. In my way sometimes if I felt bored I looked at to the moon while I was keep walking. Once we felt tired we stopped for ten or fifteen minutes then continued till we met and stopped at the fourth post, finally.  But one of our headlamps turned off because of the battery. Maybe the owner didn’t charge it till full. Luckily I brought flash light and wore it as my bracelet and it worked for shone the way especially for our feet to step. We took a rest for fifteen minutes then we continued to walk up again.

 It because of after the rain then the way a lil bit like a mud, we had to be careful with it because we can be slipped down but we helped each other. We wondered and couldn’t wait to catch the second top, named Bayangan. People said that when someone climbed the biggest challenge was when he was at the Bayangan top because he could enjoy the beauty view such saw the other mountains that looked from there , feeling tired, and unwilling to continue to the real top of this mountain. We were the new one, were not afraid about it. We believed that we could reach the real top of this mountain. In the middle of our way, we met with a beautiful sun rise, near with us. It signed that it has already morning. We kept walking and so on. At 5.15am we reached Bayangan Top. We set up our matt, our sleeping bag then put our carrier then we sat down on it and thanked to each other, enjoyed the view, the sun, absolutely we didn’t forget to take some pictures. The surprising thing came up at that time. One of my friend gave me a surprise and sing happy birthday for me. One the sweet thing, she made me pan cakes as the birthday cake and two candles on it. They were so awesome friends. That was the first thing that happened in my life, celebrating birthday on the top of mountain. From this place we can see some mountains in east java such, Wilerang, Arjuno, Wilis, and sorry I forget the other, it was beautiful view. Afterward we were talking about everything and we were fallen asleep maybe for an hour or two hours. We took a rest there until at 8.30 am we continued to climb the top of this mountain. The track, don’t ask. It was difficult almost each way I felt like I was climbing not walking anymore, and in the middle of our way, sometime there was a fog so we should stop for awhile because we couldn’t see for far seen. When you were closer to the top, there’s a sign. It was a very big rock. Most of people stopped there to take a picture. In this way, from Bayangan to the top we often took a rest. At 10.30am we reached the real top of this mountain, called as Kahyangan. Below us in the other side I saw another mountain such a hill, but it’s a part of this mountain from the other routes. In the middle of it, there’s a grave. It is the grave of people who kept this mountain. We grabbed the view to take a picture because there’s a lot of fog came and went out each minutes. Most of the land that we stepped was such a small rocks and below it was a green such a small plants and there’s a lot of insects also on this top. It was my first time to climb up the mountain. It was good. I hope I will get another occasion to climb again.