Mt. Gulugud Baboy Anilao and The Sumbrero Island, Anilao Batangas

Mt. Gulugud Baboy is located in Anilao Mabini Batangas. This is one the favorite destination of water sports enthusiasts because it offers a great experience for diving and snorkeling.

February 2013

This is the third mountain of  "ESKAPO MOUNTAINEERS".

A workmate of mine Mr. Brian Tonua who is my mentor and used to be a member of "INTEL MOUNTAINEERS" shared a story about his experience in Mt. Gulugud Baboy. He told me about the terrain of this mountain. The beautiful hills of this mountain made this called as " Little Pulag". Since Mt. Pulag is one of my dream mountain to climb, I decided to bring my group in this place.

 Photo by RyeRye Descending from Peak.

We left at GMA Jam liner around 6pm and took a bus going to Batangas City. We asked the "konduktor" to drop us off to Bauan Batangas which is 30 minutes away from  Batangas City proper. From Bauan Batangas we chartered a jeep to bring us directly to the jump off which is the Philpan Resort.

The "Taal Volcano" Tricycle,Boat Ride,Horse Backriding and the Crater.

December 24, 2012 with my three closest friends I decided to spend our Christmas Eve at Cavite Alfonso in our friend's house (ESKAPO member). We came up to a plan of spending the whole day in Tagaytay exploring the tourist spot in there. It was a good timing since it was the best season of Tagaytay. The cold breeze on a sunny day that is how  i described the weather when we were there. The plan was to go to Picnic Grove and eat bulalo in - TAPSILOGAN our favorite "bulaluhan". And we never thought that there's an adventure waiting for us.

We had breakfast at Mcdonald's ( Josh, Me and Alynna ESKAPO MOUNTAINEERS)

Mt. Balagbag Rodriquez Rizal- Start of my Adventure. My Home Mountain

This is where all of my mountaineering adventure started.

Year 2010.When i was in College taking Literature Subject. My professor decided to have our class make an Indie Film. Class was divided into two groups and I am the leader of the 2nd group. We had come up with an idea of "Aswang Aswang Film" and we entitled it "Takas"- inspired by our stage play in Tanghalang Gintong Lahi when i was still an active member of the said theater. The story line was made by my theater mate Krista. There were few scenes that we needed  to shoot in the forest and there was a falls scene where the " Aswang" does their rituals.  

A coincidence happened. A friend of mine "Carlos Yao" invited me to come with him for a nature tripping.  He said he will bring me to a falls.. It was really a good timing because of the film that we were doing back then. I had immediately informed my actors to pack their stuff because we will go to Mt. Balagbag in Rodriguez Rizal for our shooting. Everybody was excited. We left at 6:00am from Malabon.

Monumento to Balntawak

From Balintawak we took a jeep to Nova Bayan.

From Nova Bayan another jeep to Tungko

From Tungko took a jeep to Licao Licao and start trek.