Mt. Talipanan (Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro) – February 2-3 2002

Height: not applicable

 

The Explorers:

 

Yamet	Troy	Ronald
Omar	Xaru	Jenny

 

Mission unaccomplised. The plan is to climb Mt. Talipanan but we are unfortunate to do it. Nagbago ang mga pangyayari, ako na ngaun ang LATE. Buti na lang nag-txt si Troix kundi baka di na ako nagising. I arrived 40 minutes late fro 5:00 am meeting time. Another thing, from the head count of 10, were down to 6 person. Well, much of that, we arrived Batangas Pier at around 9:00 am and catch the 9:30 boat bound to White Beach Resort. We arrived the beach at around 11:00 am and take a jeep going to Talipanan. We ate our lunch near the White Sand Beach Resort. We start to ascend Mt. Talipanan. at around 2:00 pm. There so many trails leading to the mountain, even our guide (yamet) got confused. We asked the locals and mangyans but they telling us different things. Some tell we're heading the right mountain, others claims that it is Mt. Malasimbo. Until we met a local, he said he came all the way to Mt. Malasimbo and get some food over there. Talipanan is on the other side. He tell us the direction to get there. We go down, down, and down till we reach the the Mangyan Village, the jump-off point. This is where we should start. Everybody decided not to ascend the mountain, aside from we ran out of time looking for it, we're all exhausted and tired of that descent. Instead we go back to the beach and do some swimming lesons. We leave Puerto at 3:30 pm the other day through the last ferry boat trip at Muelle Pier. The lesson is never attempt to climb a mountain without a guide or you know it, unless your fun being lost (just what we did). Till we go back, siguro alam na namin.  

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