Warrior Pilgrimage

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on December 16, 2008

MOUNT MANUNGGAL HAVE endeared to us all members of the Cebu Mountaineering Society or CeMS, for upon her slopes on March 17, 1989 CeMS became an inspiration of the first ones who were there before: Sir Joe Avellanosa (+), Daddy Frank Cabigon, Dr. Abe Manlawe, Mme. Penpen Mitchell (+), Sir Rex Vecina, Claribel Delgra-Abrahan and Boy Olmedo. Through the years CeMS have alloted two of their yearly activities at Mt. Manunggal – one in March and one in August.

My first climb there was on August 22, 1992. We have all the camping area just to ourselves. On March 1993, we played host to Toto Antipasto and the VISCA Outdoors Recreation Group (VORG) while other mountaineering groups pitched their tents nearby to celebrate nature sans the noisy affairs that were celebrated every year after that. Then on March 1995, ecologically-impaired visitors desecrated the campsite, cutting short our camping days from two to one, disgusted with the way the organizers handled the affair.


Later, CeMS decided to ditch the March activity starting in 1996, which coincided with the commemoration of the President Ramon Magsaysay Death Anniversary every March 17th, when we were appalled by too many people congregating there the year before that and leaving behind mounds of rubbish as well as peripheral damage to the surrounding vegetations...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click)