SKY Biscocho was 63 years old at last count. He is youthful, strong and swift; and is known in the local mountaineering community for his various trailblazing feats.
Biscocho has explored and blazed countless trails all over the country’s mountains. Notable were his exploration of Mount Mariveles Range, Mount Makiling and Mount Malipunyo Traverse from Batangas to Laguna, and the famed “Dragon Trail” Traverse of Mount Halcon in Oriental Mindoro, among many others.
Biscocho was named an Ayala Mountaineering Club Inc. (AMCI) trail master in 1995. Aside from his feats in hiking, he is a sculptor, a painter and a country music singer-songwriter. He is proud to be considered a living legend in the Philippine mountaineering community.
Biscocho loves to climb with younger mountaineers, easily keeping pace with them. He says he enjoys hiking with younger mountain climbers because their presence reinvigorates him. He also loves heights and the feel of the changing weather outdoors. To him, hiking is a form of art.
He grew up in Bukidnon. His love for the outdoors and mountain climbing began as a child when he climbed nameless, unknown mountains around the village where he lived. He climbed with Manobo people sometimes, and those adventures became a memorable part of his childhood. Eventually, when he joined AMCI, he realized that what he had climbed as a child were peaks of the Kalatungan Range.
When he was in high school, he moved to Luzon, Batangas City in particular, where Mount Makiling is. He considered the mountain his playground in Luzon. He later formed “Sky Mountaineers” when he’s planning to explore the mountain. He was leading this group when he blazed a traverse trail that connected Santo Tomas in Batangas City to the University of the Philippines in Los Baños, Laguna.
He is thrilled by the constant discovery of new places, fascinating vegetation and clear waters. Standing out to him is the Mariveles Mountain Range he calls the Blue Mountain.
He finds Mount Halcon’s Dragon Trail, which he created as among his most difficult because of the extreme hardship to finish the trail.
He wants to inspire young people to explore the country’s mountains. His philosophy is “the more difficult a trail is, the more fun it is.” and To him, “to climb a mountain is to feed the visual needs of our living spirit.”
He wants young people to see the beauty of nature up close and up there so they can appreciate it more and be its life-long guardians.
He wants to discourage climbers who smoke and drink, exhorting those who climb to maintain the age-old respect for nature, particularly its pristine face in mountain trees, flora and fauna, and the numerous valleys, gorges and ridges.
He never tires of climbing because it feeds his artistic needs, he said. Of course, he wants to keep his hidden paradise from the prying eyes and destructive ways of the uncaring public.
Noriel de Guzman / norieldeguzman@yahoo.com
6 comments
half of what I read here is exactly what was written in pinoymountaineer.com yet I don’t see it credited anywhere.
I do agree with you, Sir. We’re not here to bash the “writer” of this article – but plagiarism is bad.
ask Sky Biscocho about this – FB account: https://www.facebook.com/sky.biscocho
I’m pretty sure Sky won’t mind. But I think Gideon does. In any case, this is lazy and irresponsible journalism from the author.
He has a Facebook account. You can search him with his name – Sky Biscocho. You’re welcome!
You can contact him through his Facebook account. He is indeed a good man, a very accomodating person. I am a witness. 🙂
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