Blog Posts on mount babag
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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...
POEM #6: Going to Mount Babag by MERELY MY OPINION on Dec 26, 2011Napo is where I start for the true path to Mount Babag.Some say it should be from Busay.I doubt at the latter and I shrink at the thought.I don't like walking on paved roads. Anyone who walk...
NAPO TO BABAG TALES XLI: Cold-Weather Training by MERELY MY OPINION on Jun 23, 2011I 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 Eco...
THE TRAILHAWK, MT. BABAG & MR. GUINNESS by MERELY MY OPINION on May 14, 2011IN MY PRIME DURING the early '90s, I have climbed the Babag Mountain Range only four times. I laugh at the thought as I reminisce. That's a far cry from what I am doing now as a mere old man: twenty-four times a year. That's twice a month! Do I f...
NAPO TO BABAG TALES XXXVIII: A Birthday Celebration by MERELY MY OPINION on May 1, 2011CAMP RED IS CLIMBING to the foothills of the Babag Mountain Range today, November 28, 2010. Today is no ordinary day. Fele Roble, Manwel's father, will be celebrating his 39th birthday. This is the reason why Camp Red will be there – to lend sup...
NAPO TO BABAG TALES XXXVII: Hidden Waterfalls of Kahugan by MERELY MY OPINION on Apr 16, 2011IT HAD BEEN more than three months since I last climbed the Babag Mountain Range, here in Metro Cebu, and that was during the third day of the “Tsinelas Charity” of Professor Marco Albeza's on August 8, 2010. To me, it's as if I have not walked...
TSINELAS CHARITY by MERELY MY OPINION on Jan 22, 2011I HAVE FOUND OUT that charity can be very contagious but without the mortal gravity of a viral endemic that I have known happening then and then again on the different parts of the globe. What it lacked in lethality though it gave up with more empat...
NAPO TO BABAG TALES XXXIV: Russians! by MERELY MY OPINION on Nov 22, 2010IT HAD BEEN raining very hard last night but it had not dampened the spirit of an impending Russian invasion today, June 26, 2010, along the trails of Napo to Mount Babag. As I sit on a concrete plant box in the parking lot of the Our Lady of Guadal...
FREEDOM CLIMB 2010 by MERELY MY OPINION on Nov 1, 2010I AM THE FIRST to arrive at the meeting place in Tisa, Cebu City in the very early morning of June 12, 2010. Today is Philippine Independence Day and I aim to refresh my love of country by participating in the 2nd Freedom Climb on one of the two des...
NAPO TO BABAG TALES XXIX: Year-End Climb by MERELY MY OPINION on May 1, 2010THE SUN SPIKED HOT today, December 27, 2009. I am with old buddy – Boy Toledo; two people from Kompay Lakaw Mountaineers – Nathan and Myla; and a junior bank executive – John Chan. It had not rained today and it is a good day to introduce John...
