Location Details:

From:  Brgy Bamban, Hermosa, Olongapo/Dinalupihan Road, Bataan

To:      Brgy Bamban, Hermosa           

Via:     River Maite Valley       

Time:  3Hrs 20Mins                                Distance: 17kms                         Total Kms to Date: 161

Hare:  Armpit, with thanks to Teutonic Turd, SBH3, for taking us to the start              

Comments: We started this hike hoping to find a hilltop called Victory. We missed our first reference point, a water tower which was only seven minutes into the walk so what chance Victory. Eventually finding the tower we set off along a dirt track taking us up an easygoing gradient towards the Bataan Mountains. After one and a half hours we reached what we decided was the highest point of this particular ridge. It offered great views of the Bataan and Zambales Mountains, Mount Arayat and Manila Bay. Deciding to leave Victory for another day we set off down into the Maite river valley to return to Brgy Bamban by a different route. We found a nice shady picturesque track taking us past a couple of unnamed barrios towards the point where the small Maite river entered the slightly larger Pinulot river. Past San Benito and into Bamban we then motored back to the Fox Hole to take in a different type of wildlife.    

Armpit, Induces, Urangutak and K-Hide Living Up To His Name