Christmas on Mt. Pinatubo

With a day off for Christmas, it seemed like a perfect time to climb my 1st volcano on the other side of the ring of fire.  We left Manila at 4:45AM on Christmas day.  If traffic were as light as that every day, living in this city would be an entirely different experience.  We met our guide out in Capas at 7am and then headed off in the 4x4 through the riverbed leading up to Mt. Pinatubo, followed by a 2 hour hike to the crater lake of the volcano.

Xmas photo shoot