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BUSHCRAFT BUHISAN IX: Traditional Land Navigation by MERELY MY OPINION on Jan 16, 2012I 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 tr...

BUSHCRAFT BUHISAN VI: A High-Ground Trail by MERELY MY OPINION on Sep 6, 2011MY 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...

KILAT SPRING by MERELY MY OPINION on Jul 8, 2011A PROMISE OF A fine sunny weather came to present me in the early morning of January 9, 2011. A little window of just a day is what I need right now from a week of a monotonous drizzle that bring cold temperatures during late afternoons and nighttim...

KILAT TRAIL by MERELY MY OPINION on Feb 7, 2011FOR FIVE STRAIGHT weekends, I was frozen in my workplace and family. My mind is somewhere else but my butt is glued to my office chair and the living room couch until a slight breakthrough came in on September 19, 2010. Previous to those weeks, I...

BUSHCRAFT BUHISAN IV: Rainshower Tour by MERELY MY OPINION on Dec 6, 2010MY DISCOVERY OF A new and different route into the Buhisan Watershed Area on May 3, 2010 lead me to come back two more times on May 30 and on June 19 where, on the latter dates, I introduced bushcraft cooking to people who were with me. Those were s...

BUSHCRAFT BUHISAN III: Guille's Trail by MERELY MY OPINION on Nov 8, 2010IT IS SHOWERING as I waited for the others in the parking lot of the Our Lady of Guadalupe de Cebu Parish on June 20, 2010. It is Father's Day today. It is almost seven and the early morning Mass is about to end and I know Ernie Salomon is there ins...

BUSHCRAFT BUHISAN by MERELY MY OPINION on Oct 15, 2010ERNIE SALOMON HAD been urging me for several weeks to go back and explore further the Buhisan Watershed Area which we did the first time on May 2, 2010. I saw his explorer spirit peak up once I led him down into the faint trails amidst dense jungle.