Blog Posts on trailcraft

NAPO TO BABAG TALES #50: An Advance Party of One by MERELY MY OPINION on Apr 11, 2012IT IS THREE DAYS before the Fruit Seeds for October.  I am going to the Babag Mountain Range today, January 29, 2012 as advance party.  I am bringing sixty small plastic pots and an undetermined number of seeds of johey oak fruit (marang) f...

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...

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...