Ramon in SUSUR GUNUNG

SUSUR GUNUNG I


When I was in the first grade of senior high school, I had a classmate who liked hiking. One day, there was an event called “ SUSUR GUNUNG I ”. It took place in Gn. Salak, Bogor. The event was at the same time with semester holiday. Actually, I didn’t know about it. But, he invented my other classmate and me to join with him. My friends and I will join with PAPALA ( the organization for the lover of nature in my senior high school ), his organization where he joined, as a team.
My classmate who joined the event was about seven people. Actually, my friends and I didn’t have any experience and knowledge about hiking. Maybe, some of us had ever joined camping. But, SUSUR GUNUNG was quite different. We needed extra power. So, my friends from PAPALA helped us to prepare everything. Because they knew that we didn’t have an experience before.
The time had come. We went to Gn. Bunder by truck together. Gn. Bunder was just a start line. The finish was in Cidahu, Sukabumi. The distance was about 11 km.
The first destination was Kawah Ratu. We started walking at 1 o’clock after praying dzuhur. We needed 4 hours to reach Kawah Ratu. It was so hard with a sheer and rocky path. More over, I was almost lost there because I took a wrong path. Fortunately, there was my friend who called me back.
We stayed in the field at Kawah. At night, there were some scary stories. First, when one of my friends wanted to take a leak, he saw a well in the back side of our tent. In fact, there was just a bush there. Second, when we were going to sleep, we heard there was something on the back side of our tent digging soil. Our senior had us do not care about it. So, we slept in that scary night.
In the morning, we continued walking to Cidahu, Sukabumi. It was about 5 km left. It was more dangerous path than the day before. The path was so sheer and slippery. After walking more than 4 hours, we arrived at Cidahu. But, we were welcome by rain there. It became hard to build a tent. So, until night came, the activities just took a break. At night, one of my friends was sick. He slept soon thaan others. There was one more event, but I was too sleepy. Then i went to bed.
It was a very cold morning when I woke up. I prayed Subuh first, then I cooked something to eat. At seven o’clock we prepared to go back home. It was so wonderful experience. I could enjoy seeing a beautiful scenery and also a useful trip. We were not only walking, but also cleaned up the path from rubbish.