SketchAndHike

89-2722 – Tinikpak River from Mt. Daraitan

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Here is the last sketch I did on our hike up to Mt. Daraitan. I did this on the second day when we reached the peak. While the other visitors were busy taking so many selfies and pictures of themselves posing on a rock, our little group all got out our sketchbooks and really looked at the fantastic view! The hike back down was pretty brutal (on the knees). Then we had a whole rigmarole to deal with our car as the brakes had failed on the way to the start off point…and in the end we left it there to be fixed, taking another car home (thanks to our friend and driver)…but that’s another story.

Sun-9-Jun-2024

89-2721 – Green grass

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At our campsite on the way up to Mt. Daraitan the person we had arranged it with, let us use a little wooden house for two of us to sleep in and as a place to cook and have our meals. I sketched this one looking out of the house at the surrounding greenery.

Sat-8-Jun-2024

89-2720 – Wonky tent

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I finished my #Potentate concertina sketchbook pretty quickly so now I am going back to using Clairefontaine Aquapad 300gsm cold pressed paper in a new home-made one. On the weekend we went for a hike up Mt. Daraitan in Tanay, Rizal Province. The first leg of the hike (just a few hours) took us up to a campsite below the peak and we pitched our tent with this lovely view. We have been using our #Hilleberg tent since we lived in Bhutan. The poles have become a bit bent but it still does the job.

Sat-8-Jun-2024

86-2685 – Mt. 360

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Despite the unbearably hot weather (the ‘feels like’ temperature has been close to 40 degrees celsius recently), we decided to go for a short hike a few weeks back. We set off from home very early (around 4am), so that we could get to the starting point before it got too hot. We were also lucky enough that it was overcast and even rained a little bit during the hike. Mt. 360 is in Tanay and is called that because at the summit you have a 360 degrees panoramic view including the Sierra Madre Mountain Range.

Sun-28-Apr-2024