Freedom Climb For Independence Day, Mt. Lumot

This 2011 Freedom climb is an attempt to break a world record in the category: Largest Ascent on a Mountain (Multiple Locations), the current records holds the largest number of people climbing mountains at the same time took place during the "Big Event" on September 10, 2000 when 600 people simultaneously scaled 112 mountains in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

This Attempt is to break a current record and set a new record category: Freedom Climb 2011 - Largest Number of People Summiting Mountains in 24 hours (Multiple Locations). This is authorized to use the "Guiness World Records". The activity was held last June 11-12 for the celebration of Philippine Independence Day. More information at the official website

The Souvenir Shirt 

The girls decided to Climb for Mt. Lumot. Mt. Lumot was famous because of the crash site of Cebu Pacific's Crash Site.

The Famous Shrine

The shrine was built for the tribute of the Flight 387 and every year, people visited the shrine to give there prayers.

Shrine

We were so excited for the climb and the group prepared everything to have the most memorable climb ever. But unluckily, we didn't get to summit and visit the crash site since we got lost at the beginning. LOL Lesson Learn. Always look for trail signs. And the host should do trail blazing before the date of the climb for the newbies :D

Lumot (moss/algae) are scattered around. Mt. Lumot
The Mountain is a protected rain forest.

Going Back to the Shrine

And because we didn't get to the peak, we instead went to the nearby waterfall.

Its refreshing to have this sort of climbs and falls hopping as side trip.

Preparing to go back home. Tired but with big smiles :)

* Pictures courtesy of Eunz.. Thanks much

White Water Rafting in Cagayan de Oro and Zipline at Dahilayan

As a great travelistas and likes adventure, me and my friends decided to go water rafting and zipline. One of the most affordable package with zip all you can at Asia's longest zipline at Dahilayan, Bukidnon and white water rafting at Cagayan de Oro City for only P2000. With a great package - van service from cdo to dahilayan zipzone (vice versa), snacks and meals (morning and afternoon), this is the best package we got this summer escapade.

There are more fun trips and adventures Dahilayan adventures could offer like atv rides, horse back riding, tree adventure, zorb and many others. Too many adventures to join yet too little time left. But surely, we gonna go back there and go atv racing. :))

Here's a cute video snapshot of some flips and tosses in the wild rapids.

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How to go to Misamis Oriental Aquamarine Park (MOAP) and dolphin island?

Are you planning to go to MOAP? or to dolphin Island?

Last March we've been to Misamis Oriental Aquamarine Park to see dolphins and go snorkeling,

We left for Ozamis City from Iligan City at around 4:30 AM and you will arrive at MOAP around 9 AM. We just took a van to send us to MOAP but if you are a backpacker and want to go to MOAP here's what you do:

Take a bus to from Iligan City - Ozamis. From the Mucas Port, the bus will take a barge going to Ozamis City. From Ozamis city, you can take a van going to Sinabacan, a Municipality where MOAP settled. If you are from farther places, you can reach Iligan through a ferry where it has a direct ship from Cebu, Manila, Bohol and other nearby destinations. Or if you are taking a plane, you can go directly to Cagayan de Oro's Lumbia airport. From the airport you can take a cab going to Bulua terminal where they have several bus trips to Iligan City from 3AM to 8PM.

Its our unforgettable trip to the beach since we have a special guest from US - David. Hope he enjoyed his stay here in the Philippines.

Here's our pictures going to Moap.

The dolphin Island

Mga Laagan

Snorkel

Kami ni Ivy :)

I want a toy camera :)

Takashi FX521 Digital Camera, also known as the "digital Holga" is my new craving...

After wanting to have an SLR camera, I found Holga - the best camera for lomography which is a point and shoot camera BUT a very big but, this is much cheaper, yet produces images as same as with SLR photography.

Lomography contains lenses that are clear that makes it much nicer compared to digital cameras. Most Lomo cameras uses film but this Takashi FX521 is produced in digital format that makes it more accessible and handy so you can preview your every capture. Most of the lomo camera are toy cameras, some are waterproof, which has cases and lenses that are plastics, others were of key chain sizes and there are lenses made of jelly. You can notice this toy cameras are multicolored. This would alter the weight, color and dullness of a digital camera not to mention its prices. Lomo cameras contains lenses that enables users to set it to 4 settings: normal, monochromatic, noise, and vivid. But other lomo cameras provides much more settings. Moving on, lomo cameras also enables users to focus the subject which the normal digital camera limits. Furthermore, there are still many lomo cameras in the market the contains advanced settings to provide quality professional images.

Can you just image how powerful this toy cameras are...? and i am looking forward to have one ;)

Package includes: Takashi FX521 Digital Camera, USB Cable, AV Cable, Pouch, Strap, CD and User Manual Specification: Image Sensor: 5.0 Megapixels CMOS LCD Display: 2.4” TFT LCD Display Focus Range: Mountain - 150cm ~ infinity, Macro - 20 ~ 40cm Zoom: 4x Digital Zoom Focal Length: f =7.0mm (42.53mm equivalent to 35mm camera) Aperture: F/3.0 Color Mode: Normal, B/W, Sepia, Negative, Red, Green, Blue Resolution (Image): 4000x3000, 2592x1944, 2048x1536, 1024x768, 640x480 Resolution (Movie): 640x480 (VGA) Dimension: 110(W) x 66(H) x 48(D) mm

My new venture

I just started my affiliate program venture and Im trying to work this out. I hope so (cross fingers). If anyone interested hope you might want to visit my new blog site here http://hottestgadgetsforyou.blogspot.com/ but it is still under construction. Hoping to add more post this week so I can start my promotion to attract more $$$$$ lol

Super Moon

We witnessed "super moon" as we celebrate a friend's birthday in one of the Beaches at Opol Misamis Oriental last March 19, 2011. We were so excited to witness the said phenomena and stayed up late to watch the moon rise :p At the same time, it was a high tide that the waves hit til the concrete bridge up to the main road. We even thought it was raining as some of the water was spilled over the rela we we riding. At around 10 PM, the sky wasn't clear and I could sense there's a bad weather coming as the the waves from the beach was hiting at the break water and the shore badly. Luckily, after we finished dinner at around 12midnight, we came out from our cottage and see the moon at its brightest. Though I couldn't see the real super moon like those at the movies, I still am happy to witnessed one along with my friends.

 

 

Super Moon at its Brightest

The Red ring around the super moon

Environmental Issues and there Effects

As the saying goes "The energy you have put in the universe will come back to you", signifies that what you do as an individual and what you have given to the earth will come back to you.

The phenomenon that has now happening to the world shows the effects of how people use, manipulate and devastate the nature.

The recent tsunami and earthquake of Japan is the result of calamities that people couldn't do much about it. Pictures, videos and other footage has been claimed that Japanese people were too harsh to the ocean that it kills more than 20,000 dolphin a year. Others may say that the tsunami just happen were the nature's drawback to the Japan. Moving on, the Philippines has suffered flash floods, landslide and other calamities that kills thousands of individuals and hundreds of families came homeless. Also, Haiti has experienced earthquake that left Haitians the casualty of an earthquake that touch the hearts of people around the world. And now, Philippines is experiencing the rainfalls throughout summer. ITS GOING TO BE A RAINY SUMMER; NO DRY SEASON (source: Philippine Daily Inquirer). All this phenomenon are subject to climate change thus affecting the countries throughout the world.

Haiti 2011 earthquake

Haiti 2011 earthquake

I as a nature lover, climber and a concerned individual asking every concerned readers to take action to prevent this from happening over and over again. If, given the opportunity, I would also like to ask the government concern to lead the country. Just by planting trees, control all logging activities, saving endangered species, we might be able to help stop by increasing global warming effect. Given the country population of 9M and all these people will at least try to plant a single tree a year, we could then accumulate millions and millions of trees each year. In this case, we could save our earth from deteriorating and would help ourselves in saving lives.

I have been participating in tree planting activities as I start my interest in mountain climbing. I could say that many of Us Climbers already planted a lot of trees in the most bald peaks and mountains and yet we couldn't cover what been done and still been doing with some of our fellow individual. Just by simply making this blog, I could at least touch the heart of every readers and help save the earth.