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XC TRAILS
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MOUNTAIN BIKING IN MT.BATULAO
May 16,2004
its 4:00am
i hurridly pack my things in my Mohawk TNF daypack.toothbrush,face towel, extra shirt, water and trailfood..then i go to ben's, house which is just across the street, the light still out...i heard familiar noise coming inside his house its the kind of noise made by a cow when mating thu im sure there's no cow in there it's BEN...SNOARING. He! he! he! so i ring his phone just to wake him up.. 4:30AM we left sta rosa goin to evercrest golf and country club in nasugbo batangas,our jump-off point. we reach evercrest at around 6:00AM.. ok lets play golf HUH!! ha ha ha NO!! were not here to play golf! were here to climb Mt.Batulao using mountain bike. yeah you read it right mountain bike. Weve been Planning this for two months, after weeks and weeks of postponed schedule finally this is it!! and i am too eager to do what we came here to do.our goal is to reach camp 3 upto camp 7 using MTB. we start the at around 6:30AM trail goin to first peak is mostly downhill with scattered death cookies in some portion not too technical..then from first peak we scout the best possible way goin to the foot of MT.Batulao its continues downhill slalom on a 60 degree angle of rolling hills this is the technical part made more difficult by tall talahib grass covering the trail..check brake!!! and down we go Ben is ahead of me then vanished in the thick blanket of grass covering the trail, 20 minutes in the downhill im negotaiting a steep single track firetrail then suddenly i couldnt control the bike it goes faster and faster i full the brake and KAPOWWW!!! my first MTB crash thank god the grass cushioned my crash thu i hurt my ankle im A ok ...after a brief rest im back on trail. i catch up with ben at the foot of the mountain.
from there we push upto campsite .. we choose the other trail goin down which force us to carry our bike passing thru forest and crossing streams ... until we reach a flat saddle goin to a small community from there its a 65 to 70 degree downhill goin down the river.-read more
DOWNPOUR IN MAKILING May 30,2004 For our second MTB adventure we choose Mt.Makiling in Los Ba�os.We Climb there several times so were aware of the trail...but before we go there be drop-by at muntinlupa sunken garden to join a tree planting project organize by Interphil Laboratories and haribon foundation. after the activity we then proceed to Los Ba�os Mt.Makiling National Park. its already 1:00 in the afternoon when we arrive at Forestry Department UPLB Campus our jump - off point. Heavy downpour welcome us..its gonna be extreme i said this MTB trail is the same trail use by Mountaineers in climbing Peak 2. it has several bikeable destination to explore one is flatrock which is a Small waterfalls..and mud spring...Mt.Makiling offers a real MTB trail. we bike upto to station 14 below the trail goin to peak 2 and then we head back... this is the real adventure goin downhill.its really a pain in the ....ARM!!..its so extreme and dangerous made more difficult by wet rocky trail..we reach forestry station in 30 minutes. SAN MATEO MAARAT. Jun 13,2004 We went to montalban looking for a MTB adventure. after several wrong turns we reach the fabled wawa gorge.but theres no mountain bike trail there so we ask direction one of the bikers told us about the san mateo maarat and maarat-wawa MTB trail so we head back, this MTB trail is also used my Moto-x riders. its 17 kilometers of rough trail from timberland to maarat.with babyheads in some portion. SOLOEING STA.ROSA TRAIL Sept.18,2004 The usual starting of point of riding sta.rosa trail is paseo de sta.rosa in front of chowking mostly the riders gather there on tuesday and weekends. living near the place is an advantage for me i started 3:30 in the afternoon the trail is not so crowded and to avoid the scorching sun i took the wedge wood as the trailhead which is just 10 minutes from my place first part of trail is a downhill.... |