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rhjumalun · 5 years ago

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Lovely and Lonely

“Cawag Hexalogy “

6 mountains in 1 day.

1st Mt. Balingkilat (1100 masl)

2nd Mt. Bira-bira (450 masl)

3rd Mt. Naulaw (450 masl)

4th Mt. Dayungan (935 masl)

5th Mt. Cinco Picos (881 masl)

6th Mt. Redondo (660 masl)

Cawag Hexalogy is one of my bucket list for 2019. Well, my best friend Ralph recommends me to hike these mountains, he kept on telling me that this is the most challenging hike for him.

At the first everything was fine, Mr. Sun gave us the beautiful view along the trail of Mount Balingkilat where we witness those magnificent mountains of Zambales near it. So far the most difficultly mountain in Cawag was Mount Balingkilat . At exactly 8am we reached the campsite .While waiting for the others me and my best friend Froi decided to take a nap for almost 1 hour I think. Sadly to say our body momentum goes back to zero again. When we reached the summit Mr. Sun got shy, he total disappeared and leave us with no trace of his existences. The background of Mt. Balingkilat summit was full of fog.

The most dangerous in Cawag going to Mt. Bira Bira from summit of Mt. Balingkilat a lot of boulder stone along the trail at that moment the rain starting to pour. If you cannot control your body you may end up rolling in the trail and good luck if you gonna be alive after. The two hikers want to exit in Mt. Bira Bira but we encourage them that the trek will gonna be easy and “MALAPIT NA KAHIT HINDI NAMAN TALAGA”

When we reached the Mt. Naulaw the 7 of us “Lead Pacer” decided to go due of heavy rain and wind. We didn’t wait for the others. We don’t want to end up having a Hypothermia this is a medical emergency that occurs when your body loses heat. The most common causes of this is cold weather or staying out in the cold too long.

From Mt. Naulaw take us almost 2 hours and then we decided to take the lunch at Paanang ng Dayuhan. Wall Mt. Dayungan have assault, but is easy like not Mt. Balingkilat. So far, even it is raining, we manage to enjoy the hike, and then when we reached the summit of Mt. Dayungan we meet painful raindrops.

And here we go again going walking and walking like zombie char hahaha to the 5th Mountain which is Mt. Cinco Picos we swept by the wind. I got an idea to put some stone in my bag to prevent being swept.

The effortless mountain “Mt. Redondo “but swear I really hate and curse this because of tallest Talahib that is taller than me. I got lots or rashes and scratches here. I keep on cheering the team that “ uy malapit na tayo” the truth is we need to walk for almost 4 hours to reach the summit of Mt. Redondo.

Special mention to these beautiful people who make my hike, so much fun and amazing.

Thank you to our Guide Kuya Rommel for making all of us safe during the hike salutes you Kuya. Highly recommended guideJ. To my best friend Froi for being my travel bud thank you and sorry to disappoint you. Thank you to Ate Vel , Ate Elle, Kuya Reivin , Kuya and Jerry . For almost 14 hours of hike with you guys I learned a lot of things. This hike becomes LOVELY because of you guys.

It is lovely the places were lovely and I met new lovely people, which willing to fight for the right. Those beautiful human na nakasama ko here sobrang thankful po ako sa inyo guys super duper.

It is Lonely because I never expected one of the most treasure human I have will ruin me because of false accusations. Mas masakit pa sa heart break to. I got depressed kasi naman di ko akalain na ganun pala talaga sila. But life goes on. Pag may nawala may darating Nawalan man ako ng Kaibingan. I got new which is true. I don’t need a lot of friends I just need “TRUE FRIENDS”😍

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id-antonettereyes · 5 years ago

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Cawag Hexa DayHike - The Ultimate Hell Hike

After having minor climb for the past two-months since I started hiking, I didn’t want to be called “beginner” again, so I tried to find some major hike that’s available on my chosen date. My first choice to be my major hike is Montablan Hexalogy but I can’t find any events since I only looked the day before the hike itself. Then I found Cawag Hexa event the next day. I immediately messaged the organizer that I’m interested to join without telling her that I’m a beginner and this will be my first major hike just to make sure that she would let me join. And she did.

The Cawag hexa consists of 6 peaks compressed into a dayhike, thus the “hexa” part. Mt. Balingkilat (1100 masl), Mt. Bira-bira (450 masl), Mt. Naulaw, Mt. Dayungan (935 masl), Mt. Cinco Picos (881 masl) and Mt. Redondo (660 masl).

I met the event organizer and her team at Shaw Greenfields before riding a private van to Zambales. At the local police station, we had our group photo taken for security and safety purposes.

The local officer also gave us a short briefing. Then we had another few-minutes ride to Sitio Cawag to get our guides. Here, they gave us a short preview of how strenuous the climb’s gonna be, and we’ve also been informed of our options to cut the hexalogy to penta, quadra, or just trilogy if we feel like we can’t make the hexa hike considering time-constraint and other difficulties.

We started initial trek from the jump-off at 4:30AM.

There were tall grasses with sharp edges that can give you itch or even cut your skin. In tagalog we call those plants "talahib".

This is how our pacing looks like on our way to the summit. There’s great distance between us.

Slowly but surely we made our way up and as the sun starts to rise, I had a better view of Mt. Balingkilat knife-edge assault that surely intimidated me. Extra caution must be taken hiking that part of the trail.

We took a group photo on the camp before doing the assault to the Mt. Balingkilat summit.

From the summit of Mt. Balingkilat we were rewarded with wonderful view of Nagsasa cove was stunning and we couldn’t resist getting pictures. We got a quick group picture before heading down the traverse trail to the next peaks.

Finally, after a long climb down a long rocky ridge, we got to the foot of Bira-bira peak.

We started to get really tired at navigating Bira-Bira and Naulaw peak. Having the nice views of the ocean tame us to start traverse-descent and just have a side-trip to the beach. But I don’t wanna disappoint myself in my first major hike. Some of us also decided not to finish hexalogy anymore and started traverse to Bira-Bira.

Here, I noticed that guideship here is not as good as in other mountains. Our guide would sometimes leave our group far behind and he wouldn’t really keep track of all the participants. All they would do is point you in the right direction and it’s up to you to follow.

Mt. Bira-Bira has the lowest elevation among the mountains we scaled. Bira-bira peak and Naulaw peak marked by an antenna of some sort. To be honest I don’t think they’re really mountains as they look more like low ridges one had to traverse to get to Mt. Dayungan.

After some rolling trails, we reached the foot of Mt. Dayungan, the fourth peak. There’s river where the last water source is located so we also decided to have our lunch here. After a short nap, we woke up and continued the hike to the next major climb.

It was until that difficult moment when half of the team decided to stop and just go back because of the dehydrating weather condition There’s five people on the lead team who pushed thru with My. Dayungan, and four of us on the mid. While, the rest of our group decided to just skip Mt. Dayungan and go straight to the 5th and last mountain. Climbing Mt. Dayungan is quiet a big deal at this time because it is one of the three major ascents in this circuit, along with Mt. Balingkilat and Mt. Cinco Picos. It’s also the hottest part of the climb. With the perseverance of some of us despite the extreme heat we pushed forward to Mt. Dayungan.

After escaping the trees of the water source, it was open trails all the way under the sun. The journey to Dayungan is indeed a hell-hike. The trail is burnt, no shades from trees, the air is dry, and I can really feel the heat reach underneath my skin.

We had no choice but to find little shade from small rocks for take 5′s.

We we’re moving so slow under the sweltering noontime heat. I had to stop for a moment with my eyes closed, just to tell myself to keep going and I can do it. As we kept going in spite of the intense heat, we climbed until we reached the top of the fourth peak.

The climb to Dayungan was steep, rocky, and dusty, but finally we reached the rocky summit. We enjoyed the amazing scenery of Silanguin and Anawangin coves while recovering energy. We descended carefully seeing the knife edges that we have to tackle as we head to the next mountain.

I told my friends that I will rush going down and try to catch up with the lead team so I went ahead and started trekking without any take-5′s. I said hi to them and just continued trekking so I can catch up with the lead team. Despite the heat, I managed to maintain a good pace and I still have energy.

I saw our sweep team on my way to Cinco Picos, but instead of resting, I continued to make my way down more ridges and valleys to catch up with the lead team, and gladly I did.

The sun set as we made our way through the last mountain, Mt. Redondo. I already ran out of water by the time we reached the 5th mountain. I realized that I don’t have a headlamp and I’m not sure if my powerbank flashlight could make it till we reach jump-off. So that means I need to stay close with the lead team to make sure I can share their lights.

I literally walked blind through the tall grasses but I still tried my best to walk faster, ignoring my scratches, in order to catch up with the lead team. My every step was only guided by shared lights from the headlamps of the hiker infront of me. We passed through several local houses until we reached the familiar jump-off.

We were the first group to descend. While waiting for the rest of our team, I washed off and had some dinner with the rest of the lead. There’s only one carinderia that’s open and we’re lucky to be able to have dinner even with just few meals left. I need to advise anyone who wants to do Cawag Hexa to bring lots of food because there’s no stops or carinderias along the way. Once you leave the jumpoff, you have to be self-sufficient until you return.

I fell asleep all the way back to Manila. I didn’t have much energy left and the climb really drained me.

As my first major hike, this climb was really difficult for me. The endless descending and ascending ridges was tremendously long and draining. The lack of water sources was definitely an added challenge and it did help me get used to hiking with minimum hydration.

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