Mt. Makiling | MakTrav For The 3rd Time

It's very nice to be back again on the trails of Mt. Makiling just after 2 months. Everything still seemed so much familiar, as if I did my last climb here only yesterday. Some hiking friends who are all "MakTrav Virgins" asked me a simple request which I find very hard to turn down - to guide them.

It was my third time to do Mt. Makiling Traverse (my first and second time here happened consecutively in the first and second Saturdays of March 2012). I took the Palanggana Trail via Brgy. San Bartolome jump-off on all of my previous climbs, so syempre dito ko rin dinala ang aking mga gina-guide.   

I already wrote a detailed MakTrav post and I don't want to write the same details all over again. So basically, I will just post here a list of some new things I encountered on my 3rd MakTrav. 

June 12, 2012, Freedom Climb 2012

   
• MakTrav as our Freedom Climb 2012. FC-FC-han kami sa Mt. Makiling

• We got lost on the trail for like 5 minutes. I failed to notice the very obvious trail sign leading to the grassy view deck. lesson: wag palaging naka-yuko sa dinadaanang trail. 

• VERY IMPORTANT (they weren't there 2 months ago) : I was surprised that the trail near the Melkas Campsite was somewhat ruined by someone or a group. Many crisscrossing trails (leading to nowhere) were newly created over the original trail, and a lot of pink ribbon trail signs (more than 50 I think) were scattered all over. People who are not familiar with Makiling's trail will surely get lost in that area.

ignore these annoying pink ribbons, it will surely lead you to wilderness.

to get out of misery, look for this original blue trail sign or the yellow Makiling Quest trail sign.

• For the record, I removed 102 limatiks from my body. My worst limatik encounter so far.

it's rainy season, so talagang may festival ang mga limatik

• Mt. Makiling's shower station (station 1) is still the best liguan ever. warm bath ftw! 

• We again had a dinner at Sulyaw, I consumed 3 glasses of unli Iced tea.

congrats to these six for completing their first MakTrav.