A week after a very short hike in Tayak Hill, our AKAC Group
or Abot Kamay Adventure Club, went to climb Mt. Cristobal via the trail in Dolores,
Quezon. Seven of us met at San Pablo City by 6:00 am, where we’ve had our
breakfast, before proceeding at the public market. We chartered a jeepney
at Php 1,200 for a round trip travel to and from our jump off point.
We registered first at a barangay official’s house in Santa Lucia,
before the jeepney driver took us to the last point of the unslippery
cemented road. Donation is optional, and we gave Php 20/head. We arranged
our gears, did our stretchings, and said our prayers at the jump off point,
while local residents are cleaning and packing their harvested radish and
sayote.
