Our trip to mt. Manalmon took us around 1 month to execute for many different reasons, but mostly because of our schedule. At kahit na di kami magkakasabay papunta duon, naisip namin na ituloy parin. Nauna ang group ni nic, harry and roger plus the trends pipol ( sir sam, misis ni sir sam, gelaine, janice at gay). they leave in the morning while my group with mitch, mar and nonoy leaves in the afternoon. Its not really hard to commute going there, cause many buses are available and plenty of different terminals are located around metro manila. We choose the one in TRAMO Pasay, (5 star Bus Line) and when we have reached Kamias in San Miguel Bulacn , we rode a tricycle to madlum. It took us 3 hours to reach baranggay Madlum including the bus and the tryke ride, just enough time for nics group to finished caving, spelunking and explore the place. Swerte naman that when we arrived Madlum that they have finished they're earlier activities and proceeded to start the hike to Mt. Manalmon together like one big happy family.
The hike was not really that hard mainly because we been looking forward to this and the mountain is not that high compared to the other mountains we have climb. Plus the fact that my group did not participate with their earlier adventure that ive heard is quite exhausting.
Even though their tired already we managed to camp at the campsite near the summit. While installing our tents some of us started to cook rice and other stuffs. We had a very delicious dinner and a very fun fuilled socials that night. We drink my version of The MINDORO sling and we sang songs while playing guitar.
The next day I was one of the first to got up to appreciate the sunrise. And it does'nt disappoint me for its offer me a great view of the sorroundings and the ray of light that is slowly bursting to the sky.( the main reason why i wanted to camp near the summit), I called them up and one by one they find themselves with me and we took pictures and more pictures.
After all of that , Its breakfast time and again everybody help in preparing our breakfast.
a little rest after breakfast we started to disassemble our tents and proceed to the training area.
It took us only 30 mintes to do it plus our guide give us a little token, a gift from above and we named him manalmon (mon for Short).