Monkeying Around Mount Talinis

By: Cherokee Mood: content Date: 02/04/2010 23:01:30 Music: None

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on July 1, 2008

WHEN I GO TO the trails that intruded into the jungle fastnesses of Cuernos de Negros Mountain Range I felt sheer excitement and my adrenalin rushes to a level that is way beyond my normal dose.Ask me why?

It is simply because along its trails, there are many surprises lurking from within that you would not find in any other mountain range. You liked adventure, you'll find it there. I will afford that information to you as I slowly dissect my experiences there, step by step. We will get there in time, but first, the introductions.

Cuernos de Negros1 is simply unique in terms of flora and fauna and it offers an assortment of challenges and treats that perk up your interest. For one thing, Cuernos de Negros is a huge botanical laboratory and a specie farm administered by the Silliman University2 in Dumaguete City.

Actually, the mountain range straddles the boundaries of Negros Occidental on its western flank while Dumaguete City takes a piece of its eastern part and Negros Oriental eats up the remaining eastern side. Its highest point is Mount Talinis, standing 6,425 feet, more or less, above sea level, and is the peak by which local mountaineering activities is concentrated upon. It is by that name that Cuernos de Negros is more popularly known.

I first climbed Mount Talinis, together with the Cebu Mountaineering Society (CeMS), way back on September 25-26, 1993. We were there upon the invitation of the Silliman Mountaineering Society (SMS), with which climb that year they hosted...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click)