Mt Ngungun

Today was 'climb Mt Ngungung' day. I didn't sleep much last night as i was excited but when i did sleep i had those terrible dreams where you are waking up hours after you should have been somewhere. it was 8am in my dream and we needed to meet at the gym at 6am. eeek. (bit like those dreams where you go to school nude or wear your pj's) Anyway, i woke up at 5am (sun's up at 4.45am so it was bright daylight) and set off to get ready and head up the mountain. We met at the gym at 6am so arrived at the Mountain by about 6.30am. The climb is fairly easy at the start with steep hills and steps then you turn the corner after about 5mins to see a really steep section with rocks, rubble and clay.



Half way up this section was the most awesome cave (photo's to come soon) and overhang so we had to do the group photo there which then wasted another 10mins. The rest of the climb is steep and more rocks and rubble and tree roots so we were dusty, dirty and sweaty when we reached the top. Once you get to the top there isn't much flat ground, just more rocks and rubble to stand on.



By the time we mucked about taking more photo's and just watch the world pass by, we decided that it was time to tackle going down the hill. (for more photos).

If your wondering why i'm in pink and the rest are in black well that's 'team holly'. I climbed with her team today as Jayne couldn't make it.




The mountain is graded Difficult - Level 4 (which is a higher grade than Mt Coolum) but you don't realise when you've got a view like that.


If you are ever coming up here, it's well worth the climb.