UPDATED Miyamit to Pinatubo Trek

UPDATES (as of 15 April 2011, 9PM)

All is set for tomorrow. Those joining the adventure will meet at 2:30AM, Clark Parade Ground (Fat Ass venue) parking lot. Jerry will bring extra water jug for everyone during the trek and rice wrapped in banana leaves. See you. Cheers!

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Jerry our host has offered to crew for those joining this Saturday's Miyamit-Pinatubo trek (technically it should be called "Sapang Uwak" [Crow Creek] to Pinatubo). He will bring his 4x4 making the journey more enjoyable and our weight load bearable. Please read the commentary section below for more info as well as my previous posts. Note that the distance from the base to Pinatubo crater is roughly 22K using the car odometer of Jerry. I will bing my Garmin 405 just to be sure. For those asking for direction, it is difficult to accurately describe the same since it involves a detour from SLEX leading to a rough road. In my next post, I will try to map it. Let me know those who are still interested to join. Meeting place is at Clark - venue of Fat Ass and then off to Miyamit. There is perhaps no need to bring your car to Sapang Uwak. Cheers.
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Guess what? Some friends from Manila are coming over here to trek Miyamit all the way (hopefully) to Mt. Pinatubo's crater. It will be this weekend, Saturday at 3AM and god knows until when it will be over ( I am sure before lunch).

It will be fun knowing that the route is runner-friendly now. So they say. No crazy running this time. Just hiking and/or trekking (any technical difference anyway?) and picture taking every now and then . Don, Pioq, Jerrry and other friends are coming. Jerry as you know will be the gracious host again (we don't expect sumptuous meal though). Pioq, on one hand, is running TNF 100 in Camsur. Don too. No wonder both are interested to visit Miyamit and good for them. Good news is that 4x4 can now manage to ascend.

Personally, I am excited to see the trail leading to Pinatubo. I have run Miyamit several times last year (sometimes twice in a day) and it will be very exciting to see how the route has evolved now. I just hope the serenity and simplicity have remained which is more likely. Inaccessible place is indicative of primeval state of things.

So if you are one of those interested to run Pinatubo 100 and want to join this trek, just holler. Everyone will have to be self-sufficient though.

An interesting article on the possibility of sub 2-hour marathon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12933932. If I get this right, one has to run a perfect pace of 2 mins and 50 seconds per kilometer just to break the 2-hour barrier. What a feat!

Cheers,

Jon (curious to assess his climbing strength now)