encountering environment: Strike two!

April 24-25, 2010

I woke-up 2am(April 24) to get ready for another trip. I was still sleepy because I slept late preparing for the things I need to bring for the trip. At around 3am, I am already on my way to the meeting place. The meeting time is 4:30am but I need to leave the house early because the meeting place is way too far from my house. I arive at the meeting place at exactly 4:30am, took a light breakfast. It was more or less 3 hours on the way to San Juan, Batangas. All I did during the 3 hours travel time is to sleep and knock my head on the window (unconsciously). We then arrived at San Juan, Batangas and headed to the market place and bought our market needs there. After, we ride a jeep to Brgy. Hugom(jump-off), which is another long trip. When we arrived at Brgy. Hugom, we headed immediately towards the registration are. Registered our names at the log book, settled the registration fee and then we met our guide Enteng(which looks like he is almost eating his mustache XD).

We start trekking at the beach side for more or less 45 minutes. We took our lunch at Sitio Catmon, the start of the trail up to Mt. Daguldul. We wait and rest there until the sun is not that scorching hot. We started the trek at around 3pm.

A very challenging climb for me even though this is my second time going up Mt. Daguldul. A was sick for the past week so I wasn't able to jog. This mountain had given me a hard time, even in my past climb up here. But still, this is always been a worthy climb. We reached the campsite and it is already dark. We immediately set our camp, cooked our dinner and start the socials after a rewarding dinner.

It is not too cold nor not hot. After the 3 bottles of brandy was done, I already get in my tent to take a rest. The morning light woked me up together with the noise from one member of the group. All are motivated to trek down for a rewarding beach experience. The pacing was fast, that everyone is detemined to swim. We reached Sitio Catmon and took our lunch there. After several minutes of rest, we decided to trek the shore to Brgy. Hugom where we planned to take a dip at the beach.