Mt. Batulao Mountaineering Experience

Mt. Batulao Summit

TRAVEL - At exactly 6AM from Lipa City, Batangas, i ride in a bus going to Batangas City, terminal and  from there took a jeep in Lawas where the van travelling to Nasugbu is located. It is a 1 and a half  hours smooth ride and i have to get off in the van in Palico, Nasugbu. From Palico mini terminal i ride again in a bus (you can ride in any bus traveling to Manila) to bring me in Evercrest Golf Club Resort and meet my friends there from Manila. It is faster to ride in a bus than in a jeep, the travel took almost 15 min. I reached evercrest Batulao a little bit late 8AM. Evercrest is the starting point of your walk if you're not going to ride in a tricycle to the registration station and you want some warm up. There is a store and a bathroom/comfort room along the way with 5 php charge per use. 

In the Registration station, me and my friends fill up our names in their registration book. A travel guide is now required in Mt. Batulao climb so we have no choice but to get one. They will give you a tour guide, young and some are adults so if somebody asked you if you want a guide along your walk to the registration and you like them you can already accept their offer.

Here's our tour guide, his name is John Paul. His just 16 years old and touring mountaineers for almost 7 years now. I like him personally, his shy silent type but he insist to carry some of our bags though we still did not give it to him. He also caring and holding us in some hard trails. 

THE CLIMB - The walk is fun, exciting and refreshing and eye fulfilling. You have nothing to worry about drinks because there is a buko vendor and some selling a halo-halo along the way. The trail is hot in sunny days cause there is no much tress in the way mostly grass dancing in the wind and big rocks. 

Its getting more brizzy in the midway to the summit and become even narrower and stiff. We still need to hold on in a rope to climb above in the super slope trail. But the view is getting more amazing and breath taking. We have to pass 9 camps to reach the summit of Mt. Batulao. The higher you get, the tougher it takes.

That feeling that you have passed the 9 camps and now heading closed enough to camp 10, the summit of Mt. Batulao.

Finally, we conquired Mt. Batulao!!
It's almost 3 hours of climb to the summit and all our sweat is worth it. We can see the overview landscape of the whole Batangas and Cavite in the other side. Feels the very refreshing air and camp with other climbers. We took our lunch in the summit and eat along with others and sharing our baon. It's so lovely the fact that you can meet strangers that share the same passion and feelings in the place with you. Greet each other and saying, "Ingat kau".

Something you should not missed in the summit is the halo-halo and the ice buko. If you commute going back to Batangas you should not also missed the last trip of van in Palico.