WHAT DO GEEKS do on a weekend outing?
Solve Mensa puzzles? †Join a Rubik’s Cube competition? †Exchange notes on Star Trek? †Go to a park, sit on a circle, open their laptops, connect wirelessly to the Internet and play ìInternet Heartsî? †
Apparently, none of the above is the idea of a weekend outing for the...
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WHEREAS ABOUT THREE MONTHS ago I explored the mountains of Turkey and Iran with Bob Cornuke in search of Noah’s Ark, last month (June) I hitched a ride on the Rozier Balloon called Breitling Orbiter 3 with Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard and English co-pilot Brian Jones.
A Rozier Balloon, by the way, works on...
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I’VE BEEN BLOGGING about our exploits in the Delbros AB Normal Club without really explaining what the club is about. About two weeks ago I got an e-mail from a reader asking what “AB Normal” means. “Do I mean ‘abnormal’?” she asked.
This blog entry is my reply to her and to all of those...
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About a month and a half ago we, the Delbros AB Normal Club headed by our President, Jose Eduardo C. Delgado (JED), started planning our Mt. Timbak Climb. We just completed our Pico De Loro Climb just when the summer season was at its hottest and we were looking forward to a much cooler...
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The thrill of conquering my first mountain is still† very much fresh in my mind.† And in my aching joints and muscles, too.† It was exactly a month from today when I conquered Mt. Batulao in Batangas.†
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But I can’t dwell on the memories of Mt. Batulao anymore.† After all, just 2 days ago,...
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This article, which I wrote a week after we went to Mt. Batulao, is also posted in the News & Features sections of www.delbros.com and www.delwater.com.
At about 1:30 PM on March 1, 2008, the last member of the Delbros/Delwater AB Normal Club reached the summit of Mt. Batulao in Batangas. It was a momentous...
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