" 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

"After spending a night in our tent pitched 150 meters below the summit of Gawahon Peak, our 2-man party climbed down to Dinamlagan Creek near its junction with the logging road in the western side of Dinamlagan Peak. We prepared our meal for lunch and supper and filled our water bottles in the creek before we commenced the ascent through the First Buttress on the West Face. The hunter's trail we discovered on the spine of the buttress petered in out in the bush close to the summit wall. We resorted to go light by leaving behind much of our load including our shelter equipment to contend the sheer summit-wall. We reached the summit late in the afternoon." — dennis5033 • Oct 3, 1998