"We hiked from national park campsite at Kiew Lom to the summit of Thailand's 2nd highest mountain, Doi Pha Hom Pok (2285m), and back. The trail is marked by 7 information boards. We walked up in the dark, starting at 5am, to be on the summit for the sunrise at 6:30am. Most people leave earlier than that. It would also make a good sunset summit, descending afterwards in the dark. The whole walk can be done in around 4 hours including summit time. There are nice views to the west over the mountains of Myanmar, and over north Thailand to the east. We saw some interesting flora but no fauna. There were about 15 people on the summit when we arrived. The Kiew Lom campsite is good. A 4-wheel drive vehicle is needed for the drive up to there. The westerly checkpoint near Fang would not let us in with our Nissan X-Trail, saying it was too low, and we should buy a trip in their pickup taxi, however the easterly checkpoint near Mae Sao let us in. There is a 2nd fine campsite nearby called หน่วยพิทักษ์อุทยานแห่งชาติที่ ดป.4 (Little House on the Prairie Project) that you can find in Google Earth. Our video log of the trip is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-noK9UVWTk" — nickhope • Dec 9, 2016

"Tried to reach the mountain via a new route, following the river down the west slope upstreams till the peak and ascend from there. It'd be perfectly plausible, though i did not count the time well. I was counting on 2-3 days to the peak, though after 2 days we were only about half the way, running out of food. We needed to turn back again and went up the normal route after all. Full trip report + map: http://dimitriosfan.com/2016/02/04/deep-into-the-jungle-doi-pha-hom-pok/" — DimitriosFan • Jan 25, 2016