Why so late? What went wrong at Pinugay Sierra Madre climb

Wheels of Happiness

Rizal Philippines

7.18.2021

This post went on a bike ride to Garden Cottages and Sierra Madre last Saturday.  However, our anticipated timeline went awry.   The estimated distance to Garden Cottage was only 28 km via Pinugay.   We left at 6:30 and were on schedule despite  rides that can be classified as wall climbing:   2 steep hills at Pinugay and 1 very steep hill at Paenan.  We lost our way for 30 minutes going back to Cogeo

We were at Garden Cottages by 11 am.   However the Garden Cottage sojourn took us 3 hours 

      2 hours climb the 46 to 47 km.   

      1 hour lunch

The distance from Garden Cottage was estimated to be only 10 km turned out to be 18 km with  three challenging climbs,     km 52, km 62 and thereafter  until Sierra Madre.

Then it rained at Sampaloc, one got lost, at about 7:30 pm, and and at 8:30 it rained in Cardona.