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I went back to this trail with some friends and took some other photos. [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjfDwt31wA&feature=youtu.be%5D
Yeah those hexagonal (i think)shaped so big, i can’t imagine how they piled up those concrete in there. and those jointed rocks, love it.
This our last hiking trip before the summer.
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We didn’t go much further for we come late already and we can’t stay late.Thank you for the info Doc. I’ll try to do it after my work. For the meantime, gotta get my ass back to work. Ha ha.
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March 6, 2011: Second Hiking trip with my friends where we got lost out of the main trail. Somewhere in the trail, i saw a lady who comes out from the narrow path. Trying to get more adventure by that time, enjoying the hike, i decided to follow the path from where the (probably british or american ) lady came out. Ha ha, honestly, i'm about to get nervous when we just kept on going and seems no one else going that way, we met a chinese couple along the and asked them if we are on a right track (thanks for my little cantonese knowledge).
After half an hour, still we are following a narrow path. We stopped after 30 more minutes, tried to get the gps from my phone but couldnt get it. Then we decided to go back to the main trail where we started for we got worried we might get caught by dark in that way. That's when we met this chinese guy who guide us our way out. 45 minutes more and we came to this top of mountain where the stone mark says it's the highest peak in that trail.
We were told seldom hikers used that way because of the steep way down on the side of the mountain. Truly, not an easy climb and back down that way. My ass kissed the ground twice and hurt my palm for grabbing something to hold on to avoid myself from falling down. (haha, clumsy me )
When we got out of that path, we pass down to a cemetery back to Chaiwan area.
I did some more hiking after that Peak trip. Loving it, thanks to my boss friend who encouraged me to do so. I even encouraged my friends too. Love the view but yeah in cooler weather, you can’t really see the views clearly. I still have some pictures to post, i’m just having a hard time figuring out how to post it here. ha ha! Not a computer genius. Thanks for the thumbnails. I’ve started the Maclehose Trail already. I just hope i could complete it, no skipping the other trail.
Good pictures.
I recently saw a Bamboo pit viper on TaiMoShan- quite near the top on open ground well away from woodland. Checked from pictures that it could not be anything else – not a keelback this time. Some of the group suggested killing it but we dissuaded them, the snake was threatening no one out there – but might have been dinner for Kite soon ?
Thanks Martin for Your replay.
I think about visiting this part of world , may be Hong Kong may be Taiwan ?
It is a pity that I ask now when the autumn is over…kind regards
Chatham path in mid levels is open again, the path round LuFu Shan to Pokfulam is closed – but you can hike up round the slip – the Hash did this a few weeks ago and others have cut across the concrete temporary covering.
The path from Ngong Ping to Shek pik is marked closed but none of the slips are too hard to cross – but a nest of very agressive paper wasps is harder to deal with !
I took this on a boat trip round the west end of Lantau. Although Tai O was cut off by slips for a while the most damaged slope is round the next headland west.
What I find interesting is that these slips are happening on slopes that have had no human activity – these are quite natural events and seem to be the main mode of erosion that shapes the landscape of HK.
I have downloaded a public domain HK map from http://hkom.hkfrd.com/forum/index.php – a little tricky to install and t e map has been prepared by hard working volunteers and so is not entirely complete. But a very good effort and deserves support.
For past 4 days I have been following the forecast of the track for FengShen and they have been consistant, they always reported it has been moving NW but it is going to recurve NE right now. Sunday they were showing the track east of Taiwan, then over Taiwan , the through the straits , eastern Guangdong, until yesterday afternoon. By then it seems they accepted this was not going to recurve – just keep going Nw – or NNW towards HK. This was not just HKO – all four agencies – China, Japan, US & HK all had similar forecasts. And all wrong . So there is still plenty to learn about what steers tropical revolving storms ? My own superficial observation has been that what ever steers them tends to be consistant for a period of months, each years storms tend to follow the same track. In recent years roughly 4 storms a year have crossed northern Taiwan and landed on the Zhejiang coast. ( I notice as I rely on some factories there) In 1999 3 storms in 2 weeks passed over HK, we were living on a boat and my 9 yo boy looked up from breakfast and asked if this was another ‘Eye’ – something expected once in a lifetime became briefly commonplace. But I think I saw it again today – I woke about 5:45 and there was a very strange orange glow to the clouds and no wind or rain – in Sheungwan. I think the colour was the sunrise through thinner cloud because within 15 minutes it was much darker and a purple hue, 20 gusting 30kts and heavy rain.
