Run-site: the creepy forest of deepest darkest Bundoora (near Hulu Yam Baru)
Travel time: allow 90 minutes, or quicker if coming by broomstick
Run starts: 1:30 pm (please be there early to register and warm up)
This is an earlier than usual start time to accommodate all the gory fun!
Hares: Drew family
Co-Hare: Scourse family
This will be our Halloween run, which is always very special, very spooky and very scary!
Please come prepared for:
- halloween costume competition, with prizes for the scariest hashers
- trick-or-treat (if you can, please bring sweets/goodies to hand out)
… and all kinds of creepy fun organised by the committee…
Hot-dogs (made from premium halal sausages) and drinks will be on sale, unless you prefer to bring your own picnic.
Directions:
If using Waze, ask it to take you to ‘Jalan Kampung Ulu Kalong’, and then just watch for KLJHHH signs (with our yellow bunny logo).
Option #1: SCENIC ROUTE VIA BATU CAVES (fastest from Eastern/Central KL)
To start:
- EITHER
- (a) Get onto Jalan Kuching North from KL, and take the 3 o’clock exit Batu at the Batu Caves/Kepong Roundabout;
- OR
- (b) Get onto the MRR2 from Sungai Buloh, etc. and head towards Batu Caves. Watch out for the junction with Jalan Kuching, with signs for Ipoh
- Trip meter when going roumd/past junction of MRR2 and Jalan Kuching / old highway 1 to Ipoh.
Then:
- km 0.5 Exit left on the first exit after the roundabout/junction, as you approach Batu Caves (big golden statue, etc.)
- km 1.2 turn left again, and get into right hand lane.
- km 1.9 Turn right at the traffic lights with the Mosque on your right, and head straight through Selayang town,
- km 6.0 Go past the Petronas on the left and then
- km 6.5 Turn right onto old reservoir road (B57), following signs to Ulu Yam.
- Proceed about 21km until you come to a bridge and a T-junction
- Cross a bridge, and turn LEFT at T-junction, into Ulu Yam Baru town
- go slowly into Ulu Yam town, turn RIGHT after 7-11, signposted towards “Genting Highlands” (B113)
- after about 500 meters, pass Police Station on left.
- immediately look for right turn, amd turn RIGHT at sign “Amber Stone Resort” (also signs for other resorts, and hopefully a KLJHHH sign).
This is Jalan Kampung Ulu Kalong. - drive about 1.5km slowly through Kampung Ulu Kalong (many children, dogs, frogs, chickens etc playing)
- Look for Bundoora Sdn Bhd Sign, and turn Left to Bundoora.
- Cross bridge, enter Bundoora Ranch, Keep Right
- Follow KLJHHH signs for at least 1km of estate track (suitable for all vehicles), past the old ranch, to the parking area in the shady palm trees, near a hot spring
Option #2: VIA NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAY
- Get onto the N-S highway, via either:
- the NKVE, from PJ/Damansara
- or
- Jalan Duta, from KL or Mont Kiara
- Head North and take exit 117, for Sungei Buaya (this is the new-ish exit between Rawang R&R and Bukit Beruntung)
- After the toll, turn left at the traffic lights
- Go straight (windy road) for just over 2km until you reach traffic lights
- Turn right at the lights, towards Serendah/Rawang
- Drive straight for about 3km, passing the Perodua factory, until you hit the old highway 1 at Sungei Choh
- Keep in the far left lane (there is usually a queue to turn right) and turn left towards Serendah / KKB / Ipoh
- Drive for about 10km until you see a traffic-light junction with colourful new (mostly empty) shop-lots on your left
- Get into the right-hand lane, and turn right at the lights, into Antara Gapi
- Drive all the way along Persiaran Antara Gapi (about 5km)
- At the t-junction with the Ulu-Yam – Batu Caves road, turn left
- Proceed a few km until you cross a bridge and come to a T-junction
- Cross a bridge, and turn LEFT at T-junction, into Ulu Yam Baru town
- go slowly into Ulu Yam town, turn RIGHT after 7-11, signposted towards “Genting Highlands” (B113)
- after about 500 meters, pass Police Station on left.
- immediately look for right turn, amd turn RIGHT at sign “Amber Stone Resort” (also signs for other resorts, and hopefully a KLJHHH sign).
This is Jalan Kampung Ulu Kalong. - drive about 1.5km slowly through Kampung Ulu Kalong (many children, dogs, frogs, chickens etc playing)
- Look for Bundoora Sdn Bhd Sign, and turn Left to Bundoora.
- Cross bridge, enter Bundoora Ranch, Keep Right
- Follow KLJHHH signs for at least 1km of estate track (suitable for all vehicles), past the old ranch, to the parking area in the shady palm trees, near a hot spring
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