The Day Before Tomorrow in KK...

Gulp.
Super Gulp.
After Avatar, our "Good Luck" from Taken mantra has been replaced by the ominous "DOO-DOO-DOO-DOOOOOOOO" in the score that plays every 4.3 seconds after the destruction on Pandora. We've probably used it 50-60 times in the last 24 hours (if you ate some bad chicken satay at the night market and your stomach is feeling kinda funny...."DOO-DOO-DOO-DOOOOOOOO")... in case you forgot, here's what it sounds like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glsyYJksGtg

Well, with all 14,000 feet or so of Mount Kinabalu staring at us in the next couple days, that song is just playing in my head over and over, but it's quickly becoming less and less funny. Those 2 pictures are just a couple of the album from my friend Yen (a Taiwanese dude whose staying at our hostel and did the trek a few days ago), and the rest of the album just makes the mountain look more and more unforgiving. Vertical Limit with Chris O'Donnell status.

Anyways, Yen's been very helpful giving us pointers and encouragement, but the bottom line is that me and Logan are woefully unprepared for this trek and more or less winging it (to put in perspective: I don't have pants even though the Mt. is supposed to be 0 celsius when we hit the peak, and Logan is planning on doin the whole thing in his Stan Smith Adidas sneakers. And it's probably gonna rain, too, maybe even thunderstorms. Perfect! God help us).

I'm writing this from a Coffee Bean with free wifi at 10:15pm or so as we try to have an easy night in prepping the next two days for our ascend up SE Asia's tallest peak. Here's our barebones itinerary:

6am: Wake up tomorrow, walk from hostel to bus station
7am: Leave by minivan to KK National Park
9am (or so): Start up Mt. Kinabalu, climb for 5 or so hours (gulp!)
2-3pm: Reach Laban Rata (our hostel that is 2,000 feet from the summit)
3pm: Rest, Rest, Rest
6pm: Dinner

The Next Day:
2am: Wake up (yikes!)...then walk 3 hours to get to the top for sunrise (the moment of truth)
5am: Trek down 14,000 feet (which everyone says is just as grueling if not more than the ascend)
2-3pm: Finish
3pm: Sleep for 24-48 hours.

So, yeah! I am part excited and thanks to Yen's pictures, a very large part terrified! But a good kind of terrified. (And as I'm writing it just started pouring! Woo hoo).

Anyways, I should be AWOL for the next few days, but hopefully I'll bring back some pictures and myself, as well. Until we meet again, talk to y'all soon. I'm off to go pray to Sir Edmund Hilary or something...

Love,
Jack

And hopefully this won't be us tomorrow... (Jimmy, you're literally the only person I expect to get the reference)