Hiking matters #637: Finally, Mt. Balatukan! A great mountain in Northern Mindanao

In May 2012, after doing the first-ever Sumagaya-Lumot dayhike, my friends and I were face to face with Mt. Balatukan,

Eulogy: Edwin Gatia, pioneering mountaineer and community builder (1954-2020)

Today, the mountaineering community wakes up to the deeply saddening news that Edwin V. Gatia, one of our great heroes

I really had no plans to climb that day, but when I accidentally bumped into Dean Tony Gutierrez in Cagayan

Over the past few years I have gone up and down Baguio City and while I would normally hope for

It was late autumn in Tokyo and I wasn’t sure how cold the mountains have become so to test the

TOKYO – Capping off my year of hiking in Japan, I managed to push for a hike up the 1728-meter Mt.

More and more hikes are emerging in Mindanao, not just the grand multi-day climbs up the big mountains, but dayhikes

TOKYO – A day after climbing Mt. Daibosatsu, I continued my weekend hiking by heading down to Izu Peninsula and climbing

TOKYO – The summer rains drenched my plans to make a Hyakumeizan run – I ended up with 5 instead of

My fifth and last summer hike in Japan – after the rains drowned my prospects of more – was Mt. Azumaya

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