" 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

" From the trail-head in Barrio Gawahon, Glenn Sorbito and I reached the base of ascent in Ubak Creek below west of the South Ridge at 6:09 p.m. on April 17, 2003. Early in the morning of the next day, we climbed the crest of the South Ridge, aided by a foot-trail, and began the gradual ascent over the spine of the ridge whose angle increases as we progressed. The trail vanished at an elevation of around 250 meters below the summit, leaving us the task to clear a way through the wooded ridge with dense undergrowth. At a point, we abandoned our plan for a summit camp because we could no longer ascend the steep angle with much load. Soon we clambered up the almost perpendicular summit-wall. We reached the top at 3:31 p.m. We lingered briefly on the summit. We started down, pitched tent by dusk at a point on the South Ridge where we left our backpacks. The whole night I was not able to catch an iota of sleep, worried by the coming storm and troubled by the two scenes of landslide on the ridge not far from our bivouac site. " — dennis5033 • Apr 18, 2003

"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

"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

" The high base camp on the West side of Sicaba Diotay Pk was reached by our 3-man party in two days from Barrio Gawahon, the eastern-most barangay of Victorias City, Negros Occidental. Our party utilized the logging road on the Gawahon Northwest Ridge and the spine of Dinamlagan South Ridge to reach the Sicaba Diotay camp, situated around 2,500 feet below the summit. Mariebelle P. Ella decided to stay in the camp when Pedro and I carried out the final assault on the third day. There were no signs of passage beyond 4,500 feet. There is a rock obstacle, barely an hour from the camp, on the ridge and dense growth thereafter." — dennis5033 • Sep 15, 2000