Nasugbu Trilogy (Mt. Pico de loro) Dayhike

December 30, 2013
Nasugbu Trilogy: Mt.Pico de loro, Mt. Talamitam, Mt. Batulao (Three Mountains in one day!)

Me, myself being a mountaineer wants something new, and my friends from TAPIK Mountaineers arranged a hike in Nasugbu consisting of not only 1 mountain but 3 mountains in a day.

We have a calltime of 4am in the morning December 30 at the Coastal Mall in Paranque. Since I will be coming from Baguio from Mt. Ugo Traverse expedition with my fellow WASAK Mountaineers. I have to go and travel as early as 10pm in order to catch up with the call time. It's 4am in the morning when i arrived at EDSA. I was late in the call time but my fellow mountaineers waited for me, (thanks for that)! I arrive at the Coastal Terminal Station around 4:15am. There is already a bus going to Naic, but our destination is Ternate, Cavite. The bus conductor told us that there will be no bus going to Ternate, instead we can ride the Naic bus and they will drop as at Ternate (thanks again for that!)

First stop! Mt. Pico de loro!

After travelling with a bus, we need to ride a tricycle to Magnetic Hill, DENR registration site. One problem we encounter is that we are 5 in the group. the tricycle can accomodate only 3-4 passengers, so we need to hire 2 tricycle costing 200 per trike. It was a big price, but it was a lucky day for us since we encounter 2 mountaineer going also to Mt. Pico de loro, I decided to join in their trike to DENR Registration site. But on our way to the registration site, our tricycle got tire flat (the registration site is just a kilometer away, d pa kami pinagbigyan), so we need to wait for the tricycle with my follow friends.

The Nasugbu Trilogy Team

Dog from registration site follow us in the trail

Reach the first mountain: Mt. Pico de loro

 After registration to DENR we started the trek for our first mountain, Mt. Pico de loro. Pico de loro is still clean as always even though its my second visit to this mountain. It was well preserve mountain by the locals, even if lots of mountaineers go and hike in this mountain. We walk along the trails of Pico de loro with a moderate to fast phasing due to time constriction since we must finish the mission in 1 day. We reach the campsite in about 1 hour and 45 mins. We rest some minutes and took some picture as a souvenir for conquering Mt. Pico de loro. We decided not to climb the monolith since almost all of us already climb it. We took the traverse route in this climb since we are doing the Nasugbu Trilogy. The traverse of Mt. Pico de loro start in Ternate, Cavite and ends in Nasugbu, Batangas. The traverse route of Mt. Pico de loro has 30 minutes of continuous descent and an hour of mild descent. As we descent from Mt. Pico de loro, we saw the group of locals that sell softdrinks to mountaineers, they where kinda late since many mountaineers are already in the campsite. Guess what softdrinks they sell, its Mountain Dew (softdrinks for the mountaineers, hahaha). After some rest, we continue our adventure. You will know if you are in the end when you reach the shooting range. 

 

One jump shot for successful Mt Pico de loro traverse

After some picture taking at the other end of the trail of Mt. Pico de loro traverse we rode a tricycle all way down to Nasugbu bayan to eat our lunch. 

ITINERARY
0400 Board bus at Coastal Mall Terminal to Ternate
0600 ETA Ternate. Rent tricycle to jumpoff
0630 ETA DENR / jump-off point
0645 Start trek.
0830 ETA rest station, Basecamp 1

0910 ETA summit

0920 Start descent to Nasugbu-Ternate Highway
1030 ETA Nasugbu-Ternate Highway.

1100 Ride tricycle to Nasugbu town. 

1145 ETA Nasugbu bayad. Lunch.

1230 Ride bus to km83. Bus station near Mang Inasal

1330 ETA Km83, Brgy Aga, Nasugbu