Weekend trekking adventure with Family/Friends

We did a nice sunday trek through the MacRitchie Northern Route. We started off at about 10.45am, after some delay by me caused by traffic.

Westly, Glen, Jack, Adrian, Lee Chean, Beverly, Amanda, Sean and myself set off from the MacRitchie drawbridge area. A few of them showed interest in my new fuel belt, and Adrian and Westly especially wanted to get one for themselves. I told them the usefulness of the fuel belt, and they liked it.

We immediately started off from the Little Sisters Of The Poor area (11km/0km) marker towards the Northern trail. I was there just in the morning doing my 18km run. As we walked the trail, we were enjoying and catching up. Adrian too had his 10km run that morning. In fact he also ran 10km at the same route the previous day. Adrian, I must say, have caught the running bug.

After a good long walk, we reached the SICC road again. Here we bumped into a group of people asking for guidance to tree-top walk. After we gave them some directions, we proceeded up towards the Golf Course to turn left into the road leading to Seletar/Mandai. However, a golfing marshall stopped us, and we had to turn back towards TreeTop Walk. We were a little disappointed, as most of us had been through this part just 2months ago. We wanted so much to try a newer, more scenic route.

Well, we took a good rest at the Ranger Station, and walked all the way back through Jelutong Tower, crossing the wooden planks, back to MacRitchie. In all, we walked for nearly 3 hrs. All had a good time, and we proceeded to have late lunch at the Longhouse food centre along Thomson Road. After that, Westly and Jack bought some Goreng Pisang home, and we all went back by about 4pm. It was a sunny and warm day. In all we walked a total of about 10km+, and expended about 500-700KCal each. We all enjoyed a good walk and exercise, and a few of us were already planning to do the NewPaper walk in July.