Last January 31, 2017, the Office of Barangay Council of Barangay Ampucao, released an advisory that may seems their take of maintaining the beautiful and healthy state of Mt. Ulap. Uploaded in one of the official Facebook accounts of Mt. Ulap, Mt. Ulap Eco Trail (https://www.facebook.com/mtulap.ecotrail), the statement goes to limit the number of visitors in the mountain starting February 4, 2017, Saturday. Barangay Ampucao is the covering land area for Mountain Ulap.
Groupings will be limited to twenty (20) persons only, whether organized or not. They will also limit the number of total visitors of Mt. Ulap based on days: Saturdays, Sundays and including Holidays, they will only allow 500 people; and 150 people for Mondays to Fridays.
In able to control the count of visitors, they will require bookings or reservations made in their official Facebook accounts such as facebook.com/mtUlap and facebook.com/mtulap.ecotrail, prior on visitor's desired dates to climb. They made an online form for reservations however, they temporarily closed the form since they got a lot of reservations to cater. You may visit the form by clicking this link. The official pages are timely updating approved reservations for visitors to check if they can finally see the breath-taking scenery of Mt. Ulap.
This isn't the first time that the Office of Barangay Council of Ampucao made adjustments in their Mt. Ulap tourism practice. Just last January 16, 2017, as posted by same pages, the Barangay updated their collection fees that took effective five days after. This includes guide fees of Php 700.00 for dayhike and Php 1,000.00 for camping.
We all know what huge crowd brings to mountains like Ulap. It may be good in tourism profit however, the effect to the nature will be crucial. Waste, soil erosion especially on trails and weakening the vegetation of grasslands are some of the problems that may occur if we allow the impact of uncontrolled human visit in the mountain.
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