Warrior Pilgrimage

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on September 21, 2009

THE TENTH DAY OF May 2009, Mother's Day to all mothers, found me again training with Boy Toledo and Ernie Salomon along the trails in between Guadalupe and the Babag Mountain Range. We three just had a successful night navigation training on April 25, 2009 wherein we followed the Babag East Ridge Pass for the first time and stayed overnight at Manwel's Peak.

We three decided to go by that trail again, this time in daylight, to investigate the destruction wrought by unknown culprits during our nighttime sojourn where we discovered hillside vegetations and along trails blatantly cut. With us during our ascent were guests Nathan Cannen and Myla Ipil of Kompas-Lakaw and member-applicant Edward Pugosa.

I tested for this trek a black Lake Baikal 35-liter backpack which I bought from Ernie last April 19th and stuffed inside were a shirt packed inside a dry bag, a digital camera, food containers, fork and spoon, a one-liter Nalgene bottle and a 50-peso worth of bread for my young friend in the hills, Manwel Roble and his family. The pack fit snugly upon my back and it replaced an abused school bag of my son's which I borrowed repeatedly on previous trips...READ MORE (Press CTRL+ mouse click)