Nasugbu Trilogy (Mt. Batulao) Dayhike

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

Third stop! Mt.Batulao

Dawn at Mt Batulao

After Mt Talamitam, last but not the least, Mt Batulao. We arrive almost evening at Evercrest. Thanks to Nanay Eva for letting us leave our things in her house. In order to save time we ride a tricycle upto the jump-off in order to see the sunset, but the tricycle just drop us at the end of the cemented road. After that, we walk and started our trek for the last mountain for the day, Mt. Batulao. 

Night at Mt. Batulao camp 7

It's almost dawn and all we have to do is conduct a night trek for this mountain. Our group decided to use the old-to-new trail of Mt Batulao. We have to use our head light in this climb (We are prepared for this kind or situation). We continue our walk until we reach one of the rest area where local sell us some drinks, either coconut drink or softdrink (you know it right, Mountain Dew) are the choices. After resting some time. We continue our trek. We choose the old trail going to the summit. Since, it was dark, we need some caution since we are conducting a night trek with a bike. We reach the camp 1, we rest for awhile and register and continue our trek until camp 9. After camp 9, there will be a final assault to the summit. After the final assault, We reach the summit of Mt. Batulao, we successfully finish our mission to conduct 3 summits in 1 day. 

Reach the third summit; Mt. Batulao

Nanay's Eva eatery

After some picture taking in the summit, we descend the mountain using the New Trail. New trail is an easy trail compared to the old trail, but one must be cautious at all times. We continue our trek until we reach the campsite, again we register (they have separate registration for the old and new trail). We re reach the campsite, we see a group of mountaineer having their dinner. Sir Mong had a short social with them, Happy birthday to one of the hikers there. After registration and short socials, we continue our trek all down from Mt. Batulao. As we trek down, one of the mountaineer in the campsite join us since his friend is going to the campsite and conduct his trek alone. We they meet each other, We continue to trek and descend from the mountain. When we reach the town, we have to walk upto the Highway, It's been a long walking for us and all of us are already tired due to the 3 mountains that we climb. When we reach Nanay's Eva store, we waited some time since it's almost 11:30 in the evening. When Nanay's Eva open the door, she accommodate us still serve us we her special papaitan (yum yum yum!) Thank you Nanay's Eva for accommodating us.

 Nanay's Eva Eatery and Store (in front of Evercrest)

After almost 16 hours of trekking and traveling, we conquer the Nasugbu Trilogy. Congratulation to us guys! TAPIK Mountaineers thanks for another warm welcome and letting me join your adventure, til the next climb.

Nasugbu Trilogy Route and Elevation

ITINERARY
1730 ETA Evercrest; left some things at nanay's Eva; ride trike to jump-off

1745 Start trek
1830 Arrival at Fork. Take the left, downward trail that enters some woodland

1915 Arrival at Camp 1. Register.

2010 Arrival at Camp 9; commence final assault
2030 Arrival at summit

2050 Start descent via New Trail, which is opposite the Old Trail at the summit

2145 Arrival at New Trail Campsite. Register again.

2330 Back at Evercrest; Eat dinner; tidy up

0000 ETD for Tagaytay by tricycle; then Jeep to Olivares;
0130 ETA Olivares; anything goes from here

Nasugbu Trilogy (Mt. Talamitam) Dayhike

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

Second stop! Mt. Talamitam

When we reach Nasugbu town, we eat our lunch at Mang Inasal, refill our water (hehe), eat unlimited rice (YEY!) and freshen up. After our lunch in Mang Inasal we rode a bus to Km83 which is the drop off point for Mt Talamitam.  Km83 is the known marking when going there, Mt. Talamitam is located at Brgy. Aga, Nasugbu, Batangas. Mt. Talamitam is known for its hot nature due to its plain environment and grassland terrian. 

Bayabasan Elementary School, near km83

When we arrived at the km83 marking, we waited for our 6th member of the team, sir Mong which will be coming along from Dasmarinas, Cavite. We thought that he was riding a bus, several buses pass by but no sign of sir Mong, until a man in the bicycle going to our direction, and viola! It's sir Mong with his bike. After the kamustahan segment. We go to the registration site. The local wants us to hire a guide since it was a mandatory policy, but we manage to talked to them and consider us with no guide. Mt. Talamitam trail is easy and visible and no need for guide. 

After registration we decided to leave some of our things in order to make us more faster in our trek. We just bring our valuables, water, camera and tripod, also sir Mong decided to bring his bike all the way to the top of Mt Talamitam. On our way to Mt Talamitam, we encounter a traveler also going to Mt. Talamitam, he was alone he was Lester a.k.a binatanglakwastero (blogger name). We invited him to join us since we have the same motive, to go to the summit of Mt. Talamitam. he also told us that he will be going to Mt. Batulao. 

Mt Talamitam trail

After some walking in the plains, good thing it is almost late in the afternoon, not that hot and we feel the breeze coming from the air. A expected, trail was well establish and no need to hire a guide. We are hike in a smooth flowing pace, but we have 3 hours allotted time for this mountain. Sir Mong our strongest member brought his bike all the way to the top of Mt Talamitam. Instead of him riding the bike, the bike instead ride at him in order to reach his goal to reach to top. 

Sir Mong hiking with his bike

It was my first time to climb this mountain. When we reach the summit, I was amazed in what i saw, we see Mt. Batulao, our last mission, and Pico de loro, our first mission, in the summit. When all of us reach the summit, we conduct our agenda, to get some memorabilia for our successful second mountain. We took some photos with the bike, since its cool that we have a bike at the Mt Talamitam summit. 

Reach second mountain: Mt Talamitam grotto

After a pictorial mode in the Talamitam summit, we descent the mountain as fast as we could, since we have left some of our things in the registration site, we almost run like we are having our trail run in Talamitam. When we reach the registration site, we rest for a bit, drink some cold cola then ride another bus all the way to Evercrest, the jump off point of Mt. Batulao.

Bike inside the bus going to Evercrest

ITINERARY
1330 ETA Km83, Brgy Aga, Nasugbu from Nasugbu Bayan
1345 Registration area at Sitio Bayabasan, Brgy. Aga (KM. 83)
1400 Start trek
1515 Arrival at summit
1600 Start descent
1700 Back at registration area, head to Evercrest
1730 ETA Evercrest

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