Dalayapan Peak

" Our 8-man party set out from Barrio Gawahon on March 24, 2005 for our first-day camp in Sicaba-Wala Creek situated in the southern base of Dalayapan Pk. The following day, we scrambled up the logging road on the southern side of Dalayapan and followed the decaying road past the eastern side to position at a point of the logging road in the northern side, just 200 meters below the summit. We hacked a trail on the forest on the steep wall and walked a short distance westward along the summit-ridge towards the summit by mid-afternoon. We immediately climbed down and headed westward to complete a traverse to Sitio Dalayapan in the fourth day. " — dennis5033 • Mar 25, 2005

"Our 2-man team set out for the southern ascent of Dalayapan Pk from Barrio Gawahon far to the southwest of the peak. In the second day, we broke camp from our first-day camp in the west side of Dinanlagan Pk and headed for Sicaba Wala, the river in the southern side of Dalayapan. We hacked a trail in the forested slopes to get to the logging road that we eventually followed eastward. From the logging road we selected a buttress where we scrambled up until we were forced to camp by dusk on a spot 40 meters above the logging road. The next day, we hacked a trail through the wooded buttress and later on the summit-wall. We clinched the summit with nary a sign of human passage by mid-morning. The hovering fog denied us the chance to view the northern side of the peak. " — dennis5033 • Jul 18, 2002

"A couple of weeks earlier, I was part of a 3-man climbing party that attempted Dalayapan Pk in the northern side. We succeeded in scaling Talabaan Pk which we thought was the Dalayapan. The Talabaan actually lies to the west of the Dalayapan summit. After reconciling the observations we gathered in the previous expedition with the knowledge presented by a map, we came back for the second attempt. This time Pedro Palabrica skipped the expedition and we attempted the Dalayapan in the south." — Belle1973 • Jul 18, 2002