Villa Verde Trail – Page 24 – Philippine-Sailor

Media Category: Villa Verde Trail

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

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Zc918. This is a similar look back, as in the last picture, from the Caraballo Cliffs towards the ridge in the background. In between we see Hill 1053 which is used by the Villa Verde Trail/Road to connect these two mountain ridges. The Villa Verde Trail runs along the watershed line between the two rivers, left is the head water of the Cabalisian River which drains to the left and south and remember the new bridge was built to cross it at the start of the Villa Verde Trail, Pangasinan End. To the right is headwaters of the Ambayabang River, it starts in part at Malico, hooks to the north, then makes another large curve to the left and flows south into the Agno River.

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Zc917. This is another look back; I am passed several ravines, passed the blasting area and more important we can see where the Villa Verde trail reaches the Caraballo Mountain Cliffs after it crossed the expanse from that ridge in the background.

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Zc916. I am passed the blasting area and in back one can see the area of recent blasting.

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Zc915. This is at the same place at the last two pictures, but I am looking back. I have reached the cliffs of the Caraballo Mountains. Today there was some blasting here and I am standing on a pile that was blasted before though.

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Zc914. This is the last picture zoomed in. I crossed the middle section which runs along the watershed line between the two rivers and I am approaching the Caraballo Spur Mountains and it got difficult here; very narrow and they just finished blasting.

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Zc910. There was traffic on this Villa Verde Road, now called the Pangasinan and Nueva Viscaya, I asked them whether one could drive all the way to Malico and I got the impression one could!

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Zc909. This is only a section of an old 1:50000 map of the Villa Verde Trail area connecting, San Nicolas-Pangasinan with Santa Fe –Nueva Viscaya. If you study it closely there used to be at least two ways traveling this trail.

Zc908

Zc908. This is my GPS data of my drive on the Villa Verde Trail on the 16th of Nov. 2018. The distance does not jive, my GPS device cut corner, ha, ha.

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Zc907. This is my actual elevation profile of my drive on the Villa Verde Trail on the 16th of Nov. 2018.

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Zc913. I crossed the middle section which runs along the watershed line between the two rivers and I am approaching the Caraballo Spur Mountains and it got difficult here; very narrow and they just finished blasting.