Who’s your favorite mountain guide in the Philippines?
Who’s your favorite mountain guide in the Philippines? Personally, I’ve climbed with a lot of guides all around the country
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Author: Gideon Lasco
Mountan News: Mt. Kanlaon reopens! Check out its official Facebook page
We have received word from from Mr. Angelo Bibar, ecotourism officer, that Mt. Kanlaon has reopened to mountaineers. This development
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Essay: What is a newbie?
by Gideon Lasco Two persons can be defined relative to each other in terms of the amount of knowledge and
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Hiking matters #246: Maculot’s Rockies, yet again
It’s Mt. Maculot again: the more I climb a particular mountain, the more of its facets I am able to
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Hiking matters #245: Bukit Timah, the highest point in Singapore
SINGAPORE – After our Pico de Loro climb on Saturday, I packed my bags and headed here in SG the
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Hiking matters #244: Another dayhike up Pico de Loro
TAGAYTAY CITY – We are doing a post-climb lunch after a very pleasant hike of Pico de Loro this morning!
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Gear Review: Fire Maple FMC-201 Cookset
My simple criteria for judging a cookset is fourfold: (1) I can easily hold the handles even while cooking; (2)
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Mountain News: Pico de Loro in INQUIRER front page today / Kudos, PDI!
Isn’t it nice to see one of our favorite peaks featured in the front page of the country’s leading newspaper?
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Hiking matters #243: Mountain geography lessons from Mt. Ugo
Being one of the southern gateways to the Cordilleras, Mt. Ugo offers fantastic views of the higher Benguet mountains, including
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Letter to a young mountaineer, II: “Why do accidents happen?”
Now, you tell me you are afraid, you have heard of an accident involving a hiker, and you realize that
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