Run-site: Batang Kali Estate (Ladang Batang Kali)
Travel Time: around an hour
Date: Sunday 3rd August, 2025
Hare: Oscar French
Co-Hares: Marcus and Lucas
Registration: 1:20 onwards
Run Starts at: 2:00 pm

The French boys (who are actually English/Malaysian) are setting our August run, in a place they know very well, so we can expect some fun trails and scenic viewpoints!

Please sign in when you arrive:

• Members please remember to mark the registration sheet.
• Guests fill in kids’ details (plus a phone number) on the guest sheet, and pay the guest fees of RM10 per kid.

and PLEASE remember to sign out when you get back from the trail, so we know that nobody is lost. It’s very tempting to jump straight into the stream when you get back, and sit there for three hours, but please sign out first!

As usual, we will have hot-dogs after the run, and drinks for the young and the old, so don’t forget to bring some change.

Directions

The dirt road starts here, just after you turn off the main road:

You can also ask Waze or Google Maps for “Jalan Ladang Ligamas”

 
The run-site is further in – you need to turn right onto an earth/gravel road and continue straight for a bit more than 1km, until you see some hashmobiles.
The plantation workers were levelling some bumpy/muddy bits last Saturday, so it should be good for this Sunday.

This Waze link should take you almost all the way to the run-site (just continue straight a little bit more), but if you put the same coordinates into Google Maps it will take you the wrong way, past an orchid farm.

To make sure you don’t get lost, it’s also a good idea to read the directions below:

Detailed Driving Directions
• Get to Ulu Yam Baru any way
The B23 Jalan Hulu Yam Baru-Batu Caves road is a good way from most starting points, but you can also go through Serendah (use the Rawang or Sungei Buaya exit from the N-S highway) and Antara Gapi
• Zero your tripmeter at the bridge over Sungei Liam, just before you enter Ulu Yam Baru town.
• At the t-junction immediately after the bridge, turn LEFT towards town.
• At 0.9km, in the middle of town, turn RIGHT onto the B113 towards Genting Highlands.
• Pass the Balai Polis on your left.
• At about 2.1km the road bends sharply to the left.
TURN RIGHT HERE AT THE SIGN ‘LADANG BATANG KALI’ (small tarmac road)
• Then take the first right, before the small estate manager’s house, into the estate (earth track) and continue about 1.3 kilometres to the run-site – this is about 300 metres past the run-site we’ve used before.

The track is OK, but some parts are a bit tricky for low-clearance sports cars, so we suggest you leave the Ferrari at home and bring the Perodua instead.

The runsite has plenty of parking near a small stream.

On On!

Run-site: Nambee estate, near Rasa
Travel Time:
Date: Sunday 6th July, 2025
Hares: Waring family
Co-hares (recces): Renshaw family
Co-hares (on the day): TBA
Registration: 1:20 onwards
Run Starts at: 2:00 pm

A couple of years ago, some families didn’t want to drive to this beautiful, remote run-site, but the road has improved enormously, and is now easily drivable in any kind of car. The track is now entirely either concrete or gravel, with no tricky bits.

It’s going to be a great run, and the hares have spent a lot of effort clearing the cut-throughs to connect a trail suitable for the Junior Hash – initially with parangs, then with secateurs, and finally with a dustpan and brush to ensure that the trail is clean enough to eat your lunch off 🙂
Actually, the trail has a very wild & jungly feel to it, and has a 100 metre river section on the short trail (2km) and a 700 metre river section on the long trail (4km) – if the weather is hot as usual, then the stream will be perfect for cooling down. The stream is mostly around 30cm deep, but 60cm in spots, and there are some optional little swimmable bits on the outside of some bends.

As usual, there will be hotdogs and cool drinks served down by the river when you finish, so just send one person back to the car for some cash, or carry it with you in a ziplock bag (you’re going to get wet!!!).

Please sign in when you arrive:

• Members please remember to mark the registration sheet.
• Guests fill in kids’ details (plus a phone number) on the guest sheet, and pay the guest fees of RM10 per kid.

and PLEASE remember to sign out when you get back from the trail, so we know that nobody is lost.

Directions

The parking is near a small Hindu temple, set among the buildings of an abandoned palm oil estate, close to a river.
So we park at the top, and then you can walk forward and follow the track left down to a river crossing, where we plan to set up the registration desk, hotdog/drinks stall and do the circle.

As with most run-sites, it’s easy to get there if you let Waze or Google Maps help you navigate.

The last 3.5km of the driving route, after leaving the main road and passing Rasa Chinese Cemetery, is really good now.

If you click one of these icons, it will direct you all the way to the run-site:

On On!