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NAPO TO BABAG TALES LI: Spoon Carving by MERELY MY OPINION on May 2, 2012WE ARE ONLY FOUR people going to the Babag Mountain Range today, February 19, 2012. I will teach the three bushmen with me the rudiments of making a wooden spoon by hand and knife. The three guys are Silver Cue, Lawrence Lozada and Dominikus Sepe a...
MAN-SIZED HIKE SERIES: Lutopan to Guadalupe IV by MERELY MY OPINION on Apr 23, 2012THIS LONG DAY HIKE today on February 12, 2012 is not for the faint-hearted. For one, it is 36-40 kilometers long. Second, it comes at a time when there is a weather disturbance advisory released by the weather bureau. Third, the Man...
ARGAO NIGHTS II (A Nocturnal Hunting Event) by MERELY MY OPINION on Apr 3, 2012I LOVE TO GO BACK to that place somewhere in Argao to catch fresh-water shrimps and crabs. I have gone there on October 2, 2010 with two former associates and it was fun. The adrenaline rush is felt when snakes that lie inert on river bed...
NAPO TO BABAG TALES XLIX: Professors, Yogis & Crazy Bushmen by MERELY MY OPINION on Feb 29, 2012THE URGE TO CLIMB Mount Babag again comes knocking at me today, December 11, 2011. While I have mastered the trails going to there, my present companions have not. Most of them are; except Jerry Pescadero who had been climbing mountains h...
NAPO TO BABAG TALES XLVIII: Knife Care & Safety by MERELY MY OPINION on Feb 1, 2012IT 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 D...
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...
MAN-SIZED HIKE SERIES: Lutopan to Guadalupe III by MERELY MY OPINION on Dec 5, 2011THIS IS THE THIRD TIME that I will be leading men from Lutopan, Toledo City to Guadalupe, Cebu City. This is a cross-country activity over the widest part of Cebu and it will be 36-40 kilometers long and following mainly the Mananga River of over, p...
MAN-SIZED HIKES: Lutopan-Guadalupe II by MERELY MY OPINION on Oct 24, 2011I 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 Ern...
TRAINING THE PULAG-BOUND by MERELY MY OPINION on Sep 23, 2011IT 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...
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...
