https://www.istorya.net/forums/blog.php?55220-Warrior-Pilgrimage en Sun, 17 May 2026 07:25:41 GMT vBulletin 300 https://www.istorya.net/forums/images/metro/blue/misc/rss.jpg https://www.istorya.net/forums/blog.php?55220-Warrior-Pilgrimage https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2498-ISTORYA-BLOG-136-Knife-Care-Safety Sat, 06 Jun 2015 08:18:59 GMT Featured in Blogger on February 1, 2012 (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2012/02/napo-to-babag-tales-xlviii-knife-care.html) IT HAD BEEN QUITE a while since I last visited the Roble family at their humble abode found among the foothills of the Babag Mountain Range. The last time I was there was on July 27, 2011 with Glenn Pestaño of Camp Red and Randell Savior of Tribu Dumagsa. That bush hike gave me an idea instead how to teach and introduce bushcraft and survival to individuals and groups in easy single topics. Today, November 20, 2011, I will be bringing in the core of Camp Red1 along with the new would-be bushmen. I am Camp Red and returning home with me is Glenn. Coming along for the first time here are Jhurds Neo, Silver Cue and Lawrence Lozada. Going along also for the first time with the pack are Faith Tannen, Justine Ianne and Ouch Melbourne. We will just stay at the Roble homestead and cook our noontime meal. The main activity would be the Grassroots Bushcraft Teaching Series which I will discuss with the participants, this time, touching about Knife...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2012/02/napo-to-babag-tales-xlviii-knife-care.html) Featured in Blogger on February 1, 2012

IT HAD BEEN QUITE a while since I last visited the Roble family at their humble abode found among the foothills of the Babag Mountain Range. The last time I was there was on July 27, 2011 with Glenn Pestaño of Camp Red and Randell Savior of Tribu Dumagsa. That bush hike gave me an idea instead how to teach and introduce bushcraft and survival to individuals and groups in easy single topics.

Today, November 20, 2011, I will be bringing in the core of Camp Red1 along with the new would-be bushmen. I am Camp Red and returning home with me is Glenn. Coming along for the first time here are Jhurds Neo, Silver Cue and Lawrence Lozada. Going along also for the first time with the pack are Faith Tannen, Justine Ianne and Ouch Melbourne.

We will just stay at the Roble homestead and cook our noontime meal. The main activity would be the Grassroots Bushcraft Teaching Series which I will discuss with the participants, this time, touching about Knife...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2498-ISTORYA-BLOG-136-Knife-Care-Safety https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2491-ISTORYA-BLOG-135-Traditional-Land-Navigation Tue, 19 May 2015 04:33:43 GMT Featured in Blogger on January 16, 2012 (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2012/01/bushcraft-buhisan-ix-traditional-land.html) I LOOKED FORWARD TO the day when that “high-ground trail” that I discovered and half-explored last April 2011 would finally be settled for completion. I will share that ecstasy with seven others today, October 30, 2011, and it will be another trophy that Camp Red will relish and be worth hanging on at their “adventure wall”. I am the guide and principal brain behind this activity. This will not only be an exploration of terra incognita but a venue, as well, to teach people about traditional land navigation and good trail sense, under my Grassroots Bushcraft teaching series which is promoted at the Warrior Pilgrimage blog. The uncompleted Lensa Trail will be the “live” laboratory for this study and we will start from the south gate of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, climbing over the bare...READ MORE (Press CTRL +mouse click) (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2012/01/bushcraft-buhisan-ix-traditional-land.html) Featured in Blogger on January 16, 2012

I LOOKED FORWARD TO the day when that “high-ground trail” that I discovered and half-explored last April 2011 would finally be settled for completion. I will share that ecstasy with seven others today, October 30, 2011, and it will be another trophy that Camp Red will relish and be worth hanging on at their “adventure wall”.

I am the guide and principal brain behind this activity. This will not only be an exploration of terra incognita but a venue, as well, to teach people about traditional land navigation and good trail sense, under my Grassroots Bushcraft teaching series which is promoted at the Warrior Pilgrimage blog.

The uncompleted Lensa Trail will be the “live” laboratory for this study and we will start from the south gate of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, climbing over the bare...READ MORE (Press CTRL +mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2491-ISTORYA-BLOG-135-Traditional-Land-Navigation https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2487-ISTORYA-BLOG-134-PinoyApache-Goes-to-Ubay Fri, 15 May 2015 03:01:10 GMT Featured in Blogger on January 8, 2012

I HAVE NEVER BEEN to Ubay, Bohol but, today, I'm gonna change all that. Yes, the today I mean is the night of October 14, 2011. Tonight, I'm going to board a boat from the Port of Cebu for Talibon, Bohol – my first time. We leave at 10:00 PM but I already slept an hour ahead on a cot too small for my frame.

Yeah, it really is small and I remedy that by changing position: with my head at the bulwark side and my feet hanging at the end. Simple. Improvise and adapt. BTW, I am an “outlaw bushman” and I mean what I write or say.

The boat arrive at Talibon the following day...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2487-ISTORYA-BLOG-134-PinoyApache-Goes-to-Ubay https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2480-ISTORYA-BLOG-133-Wilderness-Health-Hygiene-Safety Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:18:51 GMT Featured in Blogspot on November 23, 2011 (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/11/wilderness-health-hygiene-safety-in.html) GO WILD ADVENTURES, through William Rhys-Davies, recently made their presence felt here in Cebu by introducing the Wilderness Safety and Personal Hygiene in the Field to local participants on August 23, 24 and 25, 2011 at Mount Manunggal, Balamban, Cebu. This writer assisted Mr. Rhys-Davies with the preparation, organization and other administrative tasks to make this event successful. This outdoors course is offered here for the first time and concentrates mainly about personal and campsite safety and hygiene and exposed the participants to the realities of the “big-picture awareness”. The participants were ferried from JY Square, Cebu City to Mt. Manunggal via the Transcentral Highway and the Cambagocboc-Sunog Road courtesy of Mr. Barry Downes. Fine weather greeted the party on the first day. Mr. Rhys-Davies taught campsite selection and safety; knife safety; and cooking fire management. He further discussed about the option of choosing the right kind of gears and materials for the right season and climate. Tents were set up by each of the participants...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/11/wilderness-health-hygiene-safety-in.html) Featured in Blogspot on November 23, 2011

GO WILD ADVENTURES, through William Rhys-Davies, recently made their presence felt here in Cebu by introducing the Wilderness Safety and Personal Hygiene in the Field to local participants on August 23, 24 and 25, 2011 at Mount Manunggal, Balamban, Cebu. This writer assisted Mr. Rhys-Davies with the preparation, organization and other administrative tasks to make this event successful.

This outdoors course is offered here for the first time and concentrates mainly about personal and campsite safety and hygiene and exposed the participants to the realities of the “big-picture awareness”. The participants were ferried from JY Square, Cebu City to Mt. Manunggal via the Transcentral Highway and the Cambagocboc-Sunog Road courtesy of Mr. Barry Downes.

Fine weather greeted the party on the first day. Mr. Rhys-Davies taught campsite selection and safety; knife safety; and cooking fire management. He further discussed about the option of choosing the right kind of gears and materials for the right season and climate. Tents were set up by each of the participants...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2480-ISTORYA-BLOG-133-Wilderness-Health-Hygiene-Safety https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2473-ISTORYA-BLOG-132-The-First-Philippine-Independence-Bushcraft-Camp Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:47:15 GMT Featured in Blogspot on November 9, 2011

THIS IS THE FIRST time that had been done in the Philippine Islands. Camp Red, your only Philippine bushcraft and survival guild south of Subic Bay; and Warrior Pilgrimage, a personal blog dedicated for bushcraft and survival; recently introduced the Philippine Independence Bushcraft Camp or PIBC MMXI to fourteen newcomers.

The activity was held at an undisclosed site designated as “Camp Damazo”; found deep in the bosom of the Babag Mountain Range in Cebu City on June 11 and 12, 2011. The party were led by this writer starting from Guadalupe by way of Bebut's Trail on the early morning of the first day after a short prayer of protection and good journey.

After claiming the campsite at midday, the participants chose their spot where to set up their tents and then the preparation for the noontime meal started. Camp Red prefer their meals eaten fresh from the cooking fires and it had been their trademark ever since. A water hole was dug for this purpose from a sandy bank of a free-flowing stream...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2473-ISTORYA-BLOG-132-The-First-Philippine-Independence-Bushcraft-Camp https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2470-ISTORYA-BLOG-131-Lutopan-to-Guadalupe-II Wed, 04 Mar 2015 07:46:27 GMT Featured in Blogspot on October 24, 2011 (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/10/man-sized-hikes-lutopan-guadalupe-ii.html) I FOUND THE LONG route perfect for exercise and it presented itself with a good landscape too. I am again leading six people on a cross-country hike from Lutopan, Toledo City to Guadalupe, Cebu City on April 23, 2011. Aside me, Marco Albeza and Ernie will be repeating this hike that we did last February 20. Both are Camp Red regulars. Coming with us are two guests from the Cebu Mountaineering Society: Boy Olmedo and Glen Domingo; and Camp Red wannabes Jerome Tan and James Cabajar. We all meet at the Cebu South Bus Terminal at 5:00 AM and leave for Lutopan at 6:30 AM on the same slow bus that I rode on the last time that travel 20 kilometers per hour on the highway. We arrive at Lutopan at 8:30 AM and proceed to buy food provisions which we will cook somewhere by the banks of the Mananga River. Camp Red prefer to eat their noontime meals hot and just fresh from the cooking fire...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/10/man-sized-hikes-lutopan-guadalupe-ii.html) Featured in Blogspot on October 24, 2011

I FOUND THE LONG route perfect for exercise and it presented itself with a good landscape too. I am again leading six people on a cross-country hike from Lutopan, Toledo City to Guadalupe, Cebu City on April 23, 2011. Aside me, Marco Albeza and Ernie will be repeating this hike that we did last February 20. Both are Camp Red regulars.

Coming with us are two guests from the Cebu Mountaineering Society: Boy Olmedo and Glen Domingo; and Camp Red wannabes Jerome Tan and James Cabajar. We all meet at the Cebu South Bus Terminal at 5:00 AM and leave for Lutopan at 6:30 AM on the same slow bus that I rode on the last time that travel 20 kilometers per hour on the highway.

We arrive at Lutopan at 8:30 AM and proceed to buy food provisions which we will cook somewhere by the banks of the Mananga River. Camp Red prefer to eat their noontime meals hot and just fresh from the cooking fire...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2470-ISTORYA-BLOG-131-Lutopan-to-Guadalupe-II https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2459-ISTORYA-BLOG-130-Palm-Sunday-Bushcraft Tue, 27 Jan 2015 06:53:28 GMT Featured in my Blogspot site on October 10, 2011 (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/10/napo-to-babag-tales-xliv-palm-sunday.html) TODAY IS PALM SUNDAY, April 17, 2011. After fasting for a week, I think I need to do a light bush hike into the foothills of the Babag Mountain Range, Sapangdaku, Cebu City, where the Roble homestead is located. Not only that, I will polish off my bushcraft and survival skills and today is a perfect opportunity. I will not need my cooking gears and my camp stove and I leave it intentionally behind. I will not be with my usual company. I need to be alone. I need to commune with nature and to be with the mountain folks whom I can connect with very easily. Bushcraft is most perfect when you are alone. I arrive at the Our Lady of Guadalupe de Cebu Parish at 7:00 AM and I witness the blessing of the palms by the priest. There is an ongoing religious program. I passed by a procession of parishioners in old Jewish garbs coming from San Nicolas and they are now converging at the church grounds...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/10/napo-to-babag-tales-xliv-palm-sunday.html) Featured in my Blogspot site on October 10, 2011

TODAY IS PALM SUNDAY, April 17, 2011. After fasting for a week, I think I need to do a light bush hike into the foothills of the Babag Mountain Range, Sapangdaku, Cebu City, where the Roble homestead is located. Not only that, I will polish off my bushcraft and survival skills and today is a perfect opportunity.

I will not need my cooking gears and my camp stove and I leave it intentionally behind. I will not be with my usual company. I need to be alone. I need to commune with nature and to be with the mountain folks whom I can connect with very easily. Bushcraft is most perfect when you are alone.

I arrive at the Our Lady of Guadalupe de Cebu Parish at 7:00 AM and I witness the blessing of the palms by the priest. There is an ongoing religious program. I passed by a procession of parishioners in old Jewish garbs coming from San Nicolas and they are now converging at the church grounds...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2459-ISTORYA-BLOG-130-Palm-Sunday-Bushcraft https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2454-ISTORYA-BLOG-129-How-to-Catch-Cave-Bats-for-Food-the-Primitive-Way Thu, 01 Jan 2015 08:18:25 GMT Featured in my Blogspot on October 1, 2011 (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-catch-cave-bats-for-food.html) CAVE BATS ARE A close relative of fruit bats. While fruit bats grow in size, their cave-dwelling cousins are smaller compared to them. Despite its habitat, cave bats do eat fruits aside from small insects. In short, both species share the same diet. These bats are of such common sight and are numerous. This is not a threatened species though unlike those of fruit bats and you could hunt these provided that it is not for commercial purposes. However, environmental laws and ordinances could change in every place, city or barrio and it is best to respect these so as not to antagonize the local administrators. Cave bats, just like any other bats, for that matter, are edible and can be eaten when properly cooked. Catching this by hand is out of the question. Remember this...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-catch-cave-bats-for-food.html) Featured in my Blogspot on October 1, 2011

CAVE BATS ARE A close relative of fruit bats. While fruit bats grow in size, their cave-dwelling cousins are smaller compared to them. Despite its habitat, cave bats do eat fruits aside from small insects. In short, both species share the same diet.

These bats are of such common sight and are numerous. This is not a threatened species though unlike those of fruit bats and you could hunt these provided that it is not for commercial purposes. However, environmental laws and ordinances could change in every place, city or barrio and it is best to respect these so as not to antagonize the local administrators.

Cave bats, just like any other bats, for that matter, are edible and can be eaten when properly cooked. Catching this by hand is out of the question. Remember this...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2454-ISTORYA-BLOG-129-How-to-Catch-Cave-Bats-for-Food-the-Primitive-Way https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2451-ISTORYA-BLOG-128-Training-the-Pulag-Bound Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:28:49 GMT Featured in Blogspot on September 23, 2011

IT WILL BE A SUPER hot day today. This is a Friday, April 9, 2011, the anniversary of the Fall of Bataan. I will not be commemorating our heroes today but I will facilitate a training program for a supercharged group of mountain climbers preparing for a Lenten climb to Mount Pulag in Benguet.

The route will be one-half of the Freedom Trail, the full stretch of Kilat Trail, a part of Lensa Trail and the remaining arc of Bebut's Trail. These trails will conspire today to give optimum adrenaline rush for thirteen members from Tribu Dumagsa led by the couple Randell and Marjorie Savior.

Last Sunday, April 3, Boy Toledo and Ernie Salomon of Camp Red led the Tribu Dumagsa climbers to a gruelling endurance training to Mount Babag via the difficult Ernie's Trail and back to Guadalupe by way of the No-Santol-Tree Trail. This time, I will lead the whole group, including Boy T and Ernie and the two neophytes from Camp Red.

I designed the route and I will lay emphasis today on speed and some bushcraft sense like basic navigation. Two of these trails are incomplete and need some more exploration. It will be as it may – unexplored – to give accent to the activity and to perk up the participants' interest. Along the way, I will explain to the backpackers the origin of such place names...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2451-ISTORYA-BLOG-128-Training-the-Pulag-Bound https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2450-ISTORYA-BLOG-127-A-High-Ground-Trail Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:16:19 GMT Featured in Blogspot on September 6, 2011

MY BUHISAN EXPLORATION is a work in progress. City people like me depended too much navigating by foot on rivers and dry ravines for want of more knowledge of its hidden trails among thick jungle. You must remember that Buhisan is a watershed area and a considerable part of Metro Cebu's drinking water supply is sourced from there. So, the chance of pissing around and leaving human waste within that place is a big possibility.

It is for that reason that I refuse to bring a big party of outdoors people even if they are well-acquainted with the principles of the Leave No Trace. You cannot stop body necessity especially when you are on the throes of stomach trouble. Get what I mean?

But there is an exception: take the high ground...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2450-ISTORYA-BLOG-127-A-High-Ground-Trail https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2448-ISTORYA-BLOG-126-Catmon-Rain Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:13:08 GMT Featured in Blogspot on August 17, 2011

MY WIFE WOKE UP early and begins to prepare for our trip up north in Catmon. A good neighbor will be laid to his final resting place on this day, February 13, 2011, and we have to be there to pay our last respects. My other (living) neighbors have already gone there the night before and the bulk would be coming also today.

It is already 7:45 AM by the time we were on the street to hie a public utility jitney that would take us to Mandaue City first before transferring to another jitney for Danao City and then a bus to Catmon. It's complicated but, at least, we are moving and make the most of our free time bonding as husband and wife.

Vilma and I arrive at Catmon and walk up a hill where the San Guillermo Parish is located. The final send-off rite for our dear departed neighbor would be held there before carrying him to the cemetery. The church is full and there are many people outside. I take photographs of the old church and an equally ancient banyan tree before settling on a vacant seat as the prayer service started...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2448-ISTORYA-BLOG-126-Catmon-Rain https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2446-ISTORYA-BLOG-125-Leading-the-Danes Mon, 15 Dec 2014 03:17:44 GMT Featured in Blogspot on July 23, 2011 (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/07/napo-to-babag-tales-xlii-leading-danes.html) CAMP RED, FOR A change, went on a guided eco-tour of fourteen social educators from Denmark on February 5, 2011 at the foothills of the Babag Mountain Range, Cebu City. There were thirteen female and one male participants; I am the pointman; Boy Toledo as lead pack and Ernie Salomon bringing up the tail. Wil Rhys-Davies of bushcraftasia.com lights up the party in the middle with anecdotes and short tales. Along the way, I introduced the visitors to the different trees and plants, its names and its uses. They were shocked to see very dense vegetation in such small country like Barangay Sapangdaku which they found lacking in their home country. They were very elated crossing rivers and game enough to tackle steep trails. They bathed under a hidden waterfall of Busay Lut-od; drank the natural spring in Lower Kahugan and, later, slurped on the green coconuts at the Roble homestead. They enjoyed so much the sights of flower farms; awed at the strange structures of our native...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/07/napo-to-babag-tales-xlii-leading-danes.html) Featured in Blogspot on July 23, 2011

CAMP RED, FOR A change, went on a guided eco-tour of fourteen social educators from Denmark on February 5, 2011 at the foothills of the Babag Mountain Range, Cebu City. There were thirteen female and one male participants; I am the pointman; Boy Toledo as lead pack and Ernie Salomon bringing up the tail. Wil Rhys-Davies of bushcraftasia.com lights up the party in the middle with anecdotes and short tales.

Along the way, I introduced the visitors to the different trees and plants, its names and its uses. They were shocked to see very dense vegetation in such small country like Barangay Sapangdaku which they found lacking in their home country. They were very elated crossing rivers and game enough to tackle steep trails.

They bathed under a hidden waterfall of Busay Lut-od; drank the natural spring in Lower Kahugan and, later, slurped on the green coconuts at the Roble homestead. They enjoyed so much the sights of flower farms; awed at the strange structures of our native...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2446-ISTORYA-BLOG-125-Leading-the-Danes https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2444-ISTORYA-BLOG-124-A-Journal-of-an-Unfinished-Job Fri, 12 Dec 2014 08:42:48 GMT Featured in Blogspot on July 15, 2011

I AM OFF AGAIN for Manila. Prepared hard myself to have a “conscious” sleep so I wouldn't oversleep, of course, and miss my 5:00 AM flight. It had been raining for the past six days and I don't see any reason this weather would slack for a day or two and that makes me somewhat worried in the back of my mind. One thing that assures me though is when it is raining in Manila it is hot in Cebu and when it is hot in Manila it rains in Cebu!

Leave my home at 2:30 AM for the Mactan-Cebu International Airport on January 27, 2011 under a steady drizzle and I don my windbreaker because it is cold. The taxi take me there in less than an hour and I have a lot of time. Now my eyes badly need a shutdown as I sit inside the airport terminal doing nothing and just waiting for the gate to open.

A half-hour before departure, I follow a long queue of passengers and boarded a Philippine Air Lines Airbus A330 connected to a boarding tube. I squeeze myself on a cold seat nearest the starboard window and I imagine closing my eyes. I got jolted to reality when the steel bird got airborne.

Outside it is dark and I got lost in my thoughts and hum myself of some forgotten tune until another jolt from thermals beneath make...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2444-ISTORYA-BLOG-124-A-Journal-of-an-Unfinished-Job https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2442-ISTORYA-BLOG-123-Cold-Weather-Training Wed, 10 Dec 2014 02:29:46 GMT Featured in Blogspot on June 23, 2011 (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/06/napo-to-babag-tales-xli-cold-weather.html) I AM ON THE TRAIL once again on this second day of 2011. I will not be alone but will have with me Boy Toledo and Ernie Salomon of Camp Red; Randell Savior, Ian and Tonton Bathan of Tribu Dumagsa; Rowel Seno of Timex Outdoor Club; Dondon of Zubu Ecological Tour Society, Inc.; and Ms. Aisha Ronquillo, the only rose among the thorniest of thorns. Like me, all of them decide to burn whatever party fats they have accumulated during the holiday season. We all meet at the front parking lot of the Our Lady of Guadalupe of Cebu Parish at seven in the morning. The weather is perfect. Just clouds, no rain and no sunshine. Maybe Boy T and Ernie prayed for it while they were inside the church. It had been raining the whole night yesterday and it stopped at dawn. We take a quick breakfast at a roadside eatery and secure provisions for our lunch which we will cook and eat atop Babag Ridge. Boy T and I have an almost empty butane can while Ernie have a half-full. We leave Guadalupe at 8:20 AM for Napo and arrive at the place almost an hour later. Rest period is very brief and we cross the Sapangdaku River to hike on its meandering trail for the Lower Kahugan Spring. The trail is still wet and quite slippery in some places. I lead the party and apply a torrid pace amidst rolling terrain. At the water spring, I take a drink and fill my water bottle and waited for the rest to arrive. We rested for about fifteen minutes before we proceed to Busay Lut-od Falls via the Kahugan Trail. A fifteen minute walk is all we need and the newcomers – Aisha, Dondon and Tonton – are awed at the spectacle of four high cascades of this fabled waterfalls...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) (http://www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com/2011/06/napo-to-babag-tales-xli-cold-weather.html) Featured in Blogspot on June 23, 2011

I AM ON THE TRAIL once again on this second day of 2011. I will not be alone but will have with me Boy Toledo and Ernie Salomon of Camp Red; Randell Savior, Ian and Tonton Bathan of Tribu Dumagsa; Rowel Seno of Timex Outdoor Club; Dondon of Zubu Ecological Tour Society, Inc.; and Ms. Aisha Ronquillo, the only rose among the thorniest of thorns. Like me, all of them decide to burn whatever party fats they have accumulated during the holiday season.

We all meet at the front parking lot of the Our Lady of Guadalupe of Cebu Parish at seven in the morning. The weather is perfect. Just clouds, no rain and no sunshine. Maybe Boy T and Ernie prayed for it while they were inside the church. It had been raining the whole night yesterday and it stopped at dawn. We take a quick breakfast at a roadside eatery and secure provisions for our lunch which we will cook and eat atop Babag Ridge. Boy T and I have an almost empty butane can while Ernie have a half-full.

We leave Guadalupe at 8:20 AM for Napo and arrive at the place almost an hour later. Rest period is very brief and we cross the Sapangdaku River to hike on its meandering trail for the Lower Kahugan Spring. The trail is still wet and quite slippery in some places. I lead the party and apply a torrid pace amidst rolling terrain. At the water spring, I take a drink and fill my water bottle and waited for the rest to arrive.

We rested for about fifteen minutes before we proceed to Busay Lut-od Falls via the Kahugan Trail. A fifteen minute walk is all we need and the newcomers – Aisha, Dondon and Tonton – are awed at the spectacle of four high cascades of this fabled waterfalls...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2442-ISTORYA-BLOG-123-Cold-Weather-Training https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2440-ISTORYA-BLOG-122-Charity-Climb-2010 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 06:51:25 GMT Featured in Blogspot on June 7, 2011

I WOKE UP WITH a fierce hangover of last night's party as my Motorola V3 screamed its existence at 5:00 AM of December 19, 2010. Nevertheless, I scrambled up from a drunkard's bed and settled myself in the bathroom for a quick cold washover. Expertly, I dash back and forth the width and length of my house and up and down my stairs and round up the things I need today.

This is the most important day in the lives of the children of a mountain village of Napo and they do not know that yet. Not until we are on that place that is home of the Roble family. I am part of this magnificent array of angels disguised as mountain climbers, backpackers and crazy bushcrafters. I believe in what we are doing today and I find it glorious and greater than climbing the Everest itself. This is good stuff that is well-received from the Big Guy upstairs...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click) ]]> pinoyapache https://www.istorya.net/forums/entry.php?2440-ISTORYA-BLOG-122-Charity-Climb-2010