NEWS / UPDATE
November/December 2005
2ND CALAPTAN EAST FACE
ATTEMPT
Objectives:
1.) To blaze a trail on the unclimbed East Face
by means of NEC;
2.) To accomplish the first traverse from
Calaptan Pk to Gawanon Pk
Expedition Team Members
Joseph Victor Magdato - Climb Leader
Members - ???
Plan
Nonguided Exploratory Climbing
November (2nd Week) 2005
Mt Kanla-on - Guintubdan
Trail Climb
SB member Nolan Hinolan is joining a Bacolod
climbing party set to climb Mt Kanla-on, the highest
peak in Central Philippines.
Silay North Ridge Ascent (April 2004)
Dennis Ella leads a 9-member climbing team that successfully climbed the North Ridge of Mount Silay (5,032 ft), following the failure of a summit team that attempted it for the first time in June 2003. Among the members of this team are Joseph Victor Magdato (Navigator), Glenn Sorbito (Base Camp Manager & Sweeper), Tristan Opinion, Trivon Opinion, Frederick Gaylon, Jeffey Torres, Anthony Leonidas and Kenneth Gaylon.
Through Nonguided Exploratory Climbing (NEC), the team set up base camp in Sicaba-Tuo River (300 ft ASL) in western side of North Ridge on April 8, 2004, after a 5-hour trek from Brgy. Gawahon, Victorias City, Negros Occidental.
Lightload assault commence in the morning of April 9. At lunchtime the team bivouacked in the dry source of Sicaba-Tuo in the summit area. Very tired, Kenneth opted to stay behind while the 8 remaining climbers moved on to clinch the summit before 2 p.m.
Return to base was done in 3 hours, only half the time spent for the ascent. With its success, the team was able to make the second mountaineering ascent of Mt Silay, almost five years after the first in 1998.
Dinamlagan Southwest Ridge: The First Ascent (April 20-22, 2004)
Joseph Victor Magdato and Aaron Cristal co-lead a 3-man nonguided climbing team that attempted for the second time the Southwest Ridge of Dinamlagan Pk, one of ten major peaks of Mt Silay. Mark Anthony Maja, a club applicant, joins this team, on his first major climb, proving his commendable strength to share the average load of 43 lbs per climber.
From a high base in Ridge Camp (3,750 ft ASL), the team reached the summit at 10:30 a.m. on April 21, 2004 in only 2.5 hours of walk-up/scramble on a wooded ridge with a decaying foot-trail, gaining the remaining 1,000 ft.
The major obstacle of the climb is the exposed rock-section, about 20 feet beneath the summit-ridge. Leaving behind their backpacks to surmount the rock obstacle without protection, the team succeeded to clinch the third successful ascent of the peak by mountaineers but joined the two previous successful expeditions in failing to camp on the summit.
Nonetheless, this 2004 team earned the distinction as the first mountaineering party to climb the Southwest Ridge.
EVENTS in 2005
11th Gawahon Climb
January 28, 2005
Three mountaineers led by Nolan Hinolan
and Joseph Victor Magdato attempted Gawahon
Pk. With Joseph opting to stay behind in the high
base camp, Nolan led Jhon Paul Salcedo and ano-
ther climber to the highest point of the peak.
As one suffered from cramp, only two of the
summit team made it to the top. Paul, a freelancer
became the 26th mountaineer ever to climb this
1310-meter peak, one of the 10 major peaks of
Mt Silay.
Dinamlagan West Pk Ascent
February 13, 2005
Nolan Hinolan and Jhon Paul Salcedo became
the first mountaineers to climb the Dinamlagan
West Peak, a minor peak of Mt Silay.
Significantly, this is the first engagement
of the two mountaineers in Nonguided Exploratory
Climbing (NEC).
Dalayapan North Face Ascent
March 25, 2005
An 8-member team led by Dennis Ella climbed
for 3 days the North Face of Dalayapan Pk (3,870 ft). The climb began with the southern approach of
Dalayapn from Brgy Gawahon for around 6 hours
of trek on the first day. Final assault was completed
on the second day after circling the peak through
a logging road from the South past the East side.
About 600 ft below the summit, the team began
the scramble on the North Face over a dense
growth of on a sheer wall and finished the climb
after one and a half hour.
This climb sets the second mountaineering
ascent of Dalayapan, one of the ten major peaks
of Mt Silay.
Gawahon First Southwest Ascent
April 24, 2005
Falling short in the first attempt to climb the dreaded East Face of Calaptan Pk, the team of Joseph Victor Magdato, Nolan Hinolan and Jhon Paul Salcedo salvaged something for their bruised pride by setting the very first Southwest ascent of the 4,297-foot Gawahon Pk, situated more than 2 kms N of Calaptan Pk. Short on the estimate, the team climbed the Ronel East Face midway between the two neighboring peaks sharing a summit ridgline and turned N along the summit-ridge to Gawahon Pk, instead of S to Calaptan Pk.
The team completed a loop to Ridge Camp a distance past the Gawahon NW Ridge, the approach route.
Lantawan Peak First Mountaineering Ascent
October 3, 2005
The team of Joseph Victor Magdato, Jhon Paul Salcedo and Mark Anthony Maja made history by climbing the 3,441-foot Lantawan Pk at 12:13 p.m. on October 3, 2005 t. After 3 attempts beginning in 1993 and with the March 2005 attempt as the most serious undertaking, Lantawan Pk finally fell to the hands of these three mountaineers.
Following the trail set by the March expedition, the 3-man team approachjed the southern days in two days of trek. Climb-proper was pursued on the third day, utilizing the South Ridge. Abandoning a western descent, the team completed a traverse through the North Face on the fourth day.