It happened in 2020. I was on my first hike with Trailblazer Hiking Club. We were at Gunung Gagak, celebrating our arrival at the turnaround point of Negeri Sembilan’s famed Yam Tuan Antah trail when I realised that on the other side of a dense tangle of lianas lay an onward trail. Traversing streams, several peaks and ending at Bukit Tampin on the border of Melaka, this was Trans Naning and I wanted to do it.