Location Details:

From:  Diwa, Bataan 

To:      Diwa                                      

Via:     Mt Samat summit, Maringin, So-oc                           

Time:  4Hrs 10mins                                Distance: 18kms                   Total Kms to Date: 2771

Hare:  Induces Menstruation                                                

omments: A late start for some of us as our driver, Armpit, was forty five minutes late due to his being in an extreme tired and emotional state the night before. Walking to the summit was relatively easy as it was on a two lane concrete road and some of us completed the seven kilometres in one hour twenty minutes. Armpit in his befuddled state tried to short cut up a single file track and after reaching his own mini summit eventually made the summit proper a good two hours after everyone else. Goodness knows what our hare “Induces” got up to as he was never seen from the beginning until the end. After departing the summit and it’s amazing Cross we went hunting for a real trail to take us back to the bottom and we found a beauty, jungle terrain, a mini waterfall, monkey’s that executed a quick runner when we disturbed them, an ominous looking wasps nest and near the end a picture book rice paddie valley. Elen and her two friends from Phuket Hash had hired a taxi from Manila for the day. Domingo the driver decided to do the walk with us and when he reached the top found out that he had exceeded his capabilities in doing so. He was unable to walk back down again. The ladies had to drive his taxi to the top to pick him up. I hope they got a refund.