Who are the UP Baguio Mountaineers?
The UP Baguio Mountaineers is a campus-based organization aiming to promote environmental awareness and mountaineering as a hobby through their various activities, such as clean up climbs, tree planting projects and this activity, the Run for Trails. The UPBM has produced 11 batches of mountaineers since its foundation in 2000, and looks forward to its 10th year anniversary this coming October. The University of the Philippines Baguio Mountaineers (UPBM) is an active and dynamic University-based city-wide organization that aims to uphold mountaineering as both a venue for environmental awareness and as a sport and healthy physical activity. In addition to holding major and minor climbs around the Cordilleras, the UPBM has organized and implemented environmental activities (i.e. clean-up climbs, tree-planting activities) on mountains in and around Baguio City such as Mt. Cabuyao and Sto. Tomas, Tuba, Benguet, Mt. Amuyao in Barlig, Mt. Province and Mt. Pulag in Benguet.