Living Outdoors

Am I in Heaven?

Eversince my highschool days, it was my long time aim to be able to get to the highest peak. I was so curious what was to be seen and the feeling to be in such a lovely place and to enjoy nature at its finest. Away from pollution, chaos, traffic and of all sorts. During my 4th year in college, i was invited by my classmate to join an outdoor club "COAT" (Cebu Outdoor Adventure Team). With the group i was expose and my interest to mountaineering grow more deeper. I join minor climbs & river trekkings within Cebu. By that time i only participated on minor climbs/activities due to financial constraints. As we all know getting into this shall we say hobby needs to have ample money to support the expenses to be incurred.

Mt.Kanlaon(MAPOT-MASULOG TRAIL)

Entry point: Sitio Mapot, Brgy. Maiba, Canlaon City
Exit point: Sito Mananawin, Brgy. Masulog, Canlaon City

Background

Mt. Kanlaon has been known to be one of the highest peaks of the phillpines ranking the highest in the Visayas and 27th throughout the country. Many climbers had been aiming to climb its peak. Its a three day journey to top with only our backpack complete with what's needed to live in the wild such as tent, cookset, burner, & specially food supplies.

Itinerary

Day 0
1600 arrival at canlaon city by bus, buy supplies
1700 arrange transpo to drop-off
1800 eta @ drop off at sitio mapot, spend the night

Day 1
0630 Wake up call
0800 Start ascent to Makawiwili Peak
1100 Lunch on trail
1230 Resume ascent
1600 Arrival at Makawiwili Peak, Set up camp (gets very cold at night)
1700 Explore area
0600 Dinner / socials

Day 2
0500 Wake up call
0530 Prepare breakfast and packed lunch
0630 Break camp
0730 Start trek to PMS lagoon (water source available)
1100 Lunch PMS
1230 resume trek to pagatpat ridge
1400 Start descent to Margaja Valley
1530 ETA Margaja Valley, explore the area and relax (has water during rainy days and is also called margaja lake)
1600 start ascend to shoulder
1700 ETA at shoulder, pitch tent
(shoulder is highly expose to strong winds so its advisable to pitch tent @ margaja valley)
- Assault to crater-summit for sunset view
1830 prepare dinner/socials

Day 3
0500 Wake up call
0600 Prepare breakfast and packed lunch
0630 Break camp
0700 - Assault to crater-summit for sunrise view
0900 ETA @ crater-summit
1000 Start descent to mananawin
1200 head to Canlaon City or side trip if any

Special concerns as noted during our climb:
makawiwili peak - campsite expose to strong winds, gets very cold at night
- very dangerous since it has an overhang cliff, knife edge

Shoulder - expose to very strong winds, gets very cold at night

Photo archived of our climb:

Mt.Kanlaon

lunch break going to makawiwili

arrival at makawiwili

pitch tent

mt.kanlaon peak as viewed from makawiwili

sunset @ makawiwili

my friend showing his power

PMS- lunch break

Margaja Valley

makawiwili as viewed from margaja valley

Crater_Summit at the background

start of trek to shoulder

Shoulder

ascending the summit_crater

shoulder at the background as viewed from the peak

makawiwili at the background as viewed from the peak

Makawiwili peak

Crater_Summit

Summit

Power rangers

waiting for a bus ride home