As the stage of our 8th year anniversary celebration unfolded on February 19, 2015; I couldn't personally help but thought of how this club started as a neophyte mountaineering group in 2007 composed of this blogger, John Jay Cuizon, Danrev Broñola, Jonas Florencodia, Glenn Gonzales and Irish Ann Palanca. Bonded by the spirit of camaraderie and the desire to climb mountains, we put together our efforts to form a group which eventually became one of the pillars of mountaineering in Mindanao.
Last Thursday, as usual, we had our reunion of sort. It was nice to see old faces once again. Junjun Libre was there, Jane Monton (now the President of SAVERS) came to our delight and the long-lost Kabing Baring surprisingly spared a little of her time to join us after six years of hibernating. Perennial reliables were also seen including the very busy women Doreen Joy Bauya, Faridah Lumpapac and Irish Gay Simbajon.
The celebration could not have been that successful without the support of the club's logistic crew. Pawiks, Pagong, Uu, Jongjong, Irvin Joy, Niloy, Kaling and new recruit Jorax Geralde took care of the food preparation. Thanks to Hardi, Chombian, Doray and Hector John for volunteering their respective resources in Bato. We had a special guest that day also, a mountaineer and outdoor man, a very good Kumpare of this blogger in pare Dockie Enot.
Like our previous anniversary celebrations, we had a simple ceremony. We started the day with a mangrove planting in one of the areas in the barangay.
As the sun was about to settle down westbound, we headed to Isla Passig, our home for the rest of the evening. We once again played our national game - BEACH VOLLEYBALL as a conclusion but to no avail, We failed to recognize who were the winners because the whole islet was filled with laughter. That's what we usually do when we bond. No single moment left unused with our crazy talking, eating, drinking and so on. We were more than brothers, indeed, we were built to be more than just that. While we recognize mountain climbing and doing adventures as a common thing among us, there are other unseen things that we easily gel together without us knowing. It is just around there, a spirit that we know would keep us together even when this organization fades away in time. Yes, fading away is inevitable, just like death, But there is always better things to come other than fading away and that's for LOGSAC to be found out. The only thing we know is that, we love our company.
As the club also grows old, external links were established notably. We gained very good friends from beyond our territory. We have friends who even became very important of the club's existence. The way we value friendship even in the farthest part of our campsite is gaining positive outcomes. With that, we built access to mountains in different parts of the country and even in some parts of the world and climbed them one by one. To our patrons who never backed down, thank you very much to all of you.
Counting the good things that happened to LOGSAC after eight years, I can say that although we have not achieved a big lap as of yet but excellence is an understatement in terms of fulfilling our sense of purpose and direction. Just like a person growing old, we are at some point invisible. We don't usually hang out the way we did five years ago. But when we do, we always take it to the limits.
Thank you very much to all those who participated the 8th year anniversary.
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