Here are images/videos from the camera, the batteries lasted 5-6 months so I got a lot of images but quite spaced out, sometimes many days passed between each set of photos, and a lot of the time it was rain lashing the camera and trees swaying in storms that caused the trigger. No tapir! Lots of boar, quite a few stump-tailed macaques - Macaca arctoides (they have really red faces compared to the other macaques), 2-3 muntjac deer, a leopard cat, a serow and what I think is a crab-eating mongoose - Herpestes urva. A lot of diversity. One of the boars looks to have lost a hoof (see video), maybe in a snare? I am not sure at adult size if they would have any predators in this forest, and it looks to be an old injury so perhaps it can survive hobbling around like that.
As usual I am not sure on the bird ID but will take a stab at crested serpent eagle?
I did continue on to the Trang/Phattalung boundary. Those blue ribbons were not put up for the race like I thought, they must have been put there by WS staff to mark the trail, because they continue well off the race course and right to the summit - very handy for finding the way. There is a cleared area at 7.4546290204410735, 99.88511839018504 which is where I stopped last time and where the race was supposed to start coming back down the mountain. After that point it was very tough going and the leech situation was really bad. The path had been hacked out and obviously isn't used much, so although marked well with ribbons it was very slow, almost every step was maneuvering over or around an obstacle.
There are two types of leeches here, the normal brown ones which are on the forest floor and crawl up and over your shoe, going for your ankles, and a yellow striped type called a tiger leech, that one is on leaves and foliage off the ground and always seems to attach itself to your upper calf or thigh, so even if you were wearing leech socks they would not help. They then crawl up to your stomach, or if you were wearing shorts like I was, under your shorts to probably the last place you want leeches to be. I think it is Haemadipsa picta. If you google image them, they are always pictured on leaves, rarely on the ground. That's my experience too. I've also found them at Doi Mon Chong amongst other places, that time they were in long grass. I pushed through 25 metres of long damp grass and had literally 20-30 of them high up on my legs. I'm itching just thinking about it.
I'd recommend this hike but only to the cleared area. After that when you enter the forest again the trail becomes too technical and the leeches too many for it to be enjoyable in any way. Before the cleared area there are very few leeches. Also wouldn't be possible to get to the summit and back before dark. I took very few breaks and got out an hour or two after dark, using a torch.
The view from the top:
Phattalung City beneath Khao Ok Thalu karsts, and behind those is Thale Luang/Songkhla Lake (a saltwater lake but with lower salinity than the sea), a thin strip of land and then the Gulf of Thailand 70km away: