MUNICIPALITY OF ANILAO, PROVINCE OF BATANGAS
12 January 2013
My first adventure on the trail in 2013!!
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| Trail |
For more than a month, I was off the trails and found myself occupied with yuletide activities both at home and at the workplace. I missed the mountains and the trails so much but I had to stay at home up north away from the busy city and streets of Manila to be with loved ones.
Although Mt. Gulugod Baboy is not on my bucket list, I felt that I needed to stretch a little bit to burn some extra calories brought by the festive Christmas season and the New Year celebration.
According to a friend who had been at Mt. Gulugud Baboy, climbing the mountain is not a major one, yet just like any other mountains, the trail and peak have always something unique and nice to present to those who come and visit it.
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| Green Summit |
At around 3:45AM, I arrived at a usual meeting place at El Pueblo and I was so happy to see few old friends. I was so happy to see an avid climber Nung Panprung once again after a while.
We left Manila at around 04:00AM onboard two vans. There were more or less 20 of us. We had a short stop-over at a gas station along SLEX for a restroom break and to buy some supplies.
Along the way, I met a friend Oliver Pe and had a nice chat with him and we talked a lot about adventures and mountaineering.
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| White Tree |
At around 07:00AM, we were at the Jump-off point at Brgy. San Teodoro, Anilao.
Our climb commenced past 7:30AM walking on an inclined pavement. Part of the pavement is covered with a land that slide down from the slope of a mountain nearby. The trail is generally nice. There were several houses along the trail.
At around 8:30AM, we stopped at a nearby house, had a nice short rest and took group photos.
At around 9:45AM, after passing more than half the entire trail, it started to drizzle and then it finally rained. It started to turn a little cold too and the wind blows from behind us. Slowly, the trail was covered with fog and there was almost zero visibility.
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| Summit landscape |
At around 10:15AM, few of us were at peak 1 already while the others are still on the trail going up. There was an on-off mild to moderate rain with winds blowing to the west and still the peak and the surroundings were covered with fog.
While waiting for our fellow climbers and hoping for the rain to stop and the surroundings to clear, we decided to have an early lunch.
By 11:00AM, finally there was a clearing and we saw the nice landscape around us and we were able to reach the nearby peak 2 as well. We had so much fun taking pictures and exploring the peaks.
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| Camp Site |
We started our descent at around 11:00AM.
While walking up the mountain was so much fun, going down was different as the trail was wet and slippery. Nung and I had fun with the slippery trail and we had even time taking few shots of the trees along the trail.
By 12:30PM, we were back at the jump-off point, had a shower and tidy-up.
We left the jump-off point at 1:45PM and had a stop - over at Casa Rap to cool ourselves with a tasty "halo-halo" and sweet "sinuman".
Everything went well and we were back at El Pueblo 6:00PM.
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