Villa Verde Trail – Page 23 – Philippine-Sailor

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Descriptions of the Villa Verde Trail and related areas are covered here.

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Zc924. 181116 Villa Verde hike, middle section 004. This is information of my GPS track of the walk.

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Zc923. 181116 Villa Verde hike, middle section 003. This is the elevation profile of my GPS track of the walk.

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Zc922. 181116 Villa Verde hike, middle section 002. This is my GPS track of the walk, zoomed in with some landmarks.

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Zc921. 181116 Villa Verde hike, middle section 001. This is my GPS track of the walk and also gives you a bigger picture of the Villa Verde Trail area.

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Zc930. 181116 Villa Verde hike, middle section 013. This a long view up and ahead, at the distance is where the 745 meter high ridge, branches off from this main one.

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Zc929. 181116 Villa Verde hike, middle section 012. At many bends or ravines the embankment of the trail or now the new road needs to be enforced like this.

Zc928. 181116 Villa Verde hike, middle section 011. A look back on this hike, left is the 745 meter high ridge line that blocked my view much of the time. The high, high mountains at left are part of the Caraballo Mountain Spur, which the Villa Verde Trail crosses. Straight ahead is the Central Luzon Plains.

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Zc927. 181116 Villa Verde hike, middle section 010. On of my first view on this hike, you can see this is not an easy job to build this road, a lot of cutting has to be done.

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Zc920. These km stones have been recently replaced; it says 12 km to Imugan Town. From there to Santa Fe it is about another 8 km, so from here to Santa Fe, about 20 km, the Villa Verde Trail/Road or the new Pangasinan-Nueva Viscaya Road is concreted except about 100 meters. Don’t ask me why, I am sure there is some bureaucratic reason. The entrance to Malico Village is about 1 km from here, I consider this the western Salacsac Pass.

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Zc919. That ridgeline ahead, down from the road, houses the WWII tank, which makes me believe that the Villa Verde had several tracks reaching the Salacsac Passes at Malico Village.