johansvennung(臺灣) -

2 hikes in 1 day...

I went up at 6 last morning...jsut to hit the road...

...road 3...heading south...

Its always tricky to follow roads in taiwan, since they can suddenly change name in an intersection...rutn without notice...

My friend cory was meeting me up in the mountain...after some 2 hours drive...

Up here they have no 7-11, but some private convenient stores...

This is the place we will try to go to...cory was here some month ago...and its on my bucket list...

Its famous for its steepness...

Cory showing the way...

Omg, they had fake money on the ground...

After 20 minutes walk, we concluded that we went wrong, and went up again...after another 20 minutes we came to the river...and cory concluded that we went wrong agaon...since it was suppose to be a waterfall where the path meets the river...

Up again...

The stones here looked a little like in a hotspring...

It was alot of trash in the bushes...

But "no"...cory didnt recognize the place...

Maybe it was up stream, or down stream...

But not here...

I saw an arrow on a tree...but there were plenty of pathes...in each direction...I had to leave for an other hike after 2-3 hours...bt Cory concluded that it must have been the path to the right...I will check it out later on this week...

The next hike was in Sanxia...

My friend Anders met me up...

We saved some time, by driving scooter up hill...on a small road...

Anders is as usual very hightech...having cool applications on his phone, and recent technical devices...

We walked a "famous" trail...

Some locals says the trail takes 8 hours...as usual we divide the time by 4...to get the real time...

They even carved out stairs in the stone...

And as usual some mountain climbing club prepared the path with stripes..

"the old tree" in the centred of this "8 shaped" trail"...

Some steep part...

It was very entertaining...

And steep...partwise...

Some times the trail went to the middle of nowhere...

And many times they had maps...

The top...I think...they had many peaks...

Some visitors carved their names into the stone...

Anders using a panorama app...

It was pretty cool...

I sneaked in 2 times...(and it had a small gap...but its pretty usefull...

Ano other map...without telling you where we are...and showing "KG"?!?!? i wonder what that means...how heavy the trail is?

Some steep cliffs had some iron bars pointing up...

We toook the ladder...

Safe!

Later we had a quick snak...some biscuits fomr Göteborgskex...

And we continued to head back...

Just a quick check if there are any geocache in the area...

Yes..not so far from road number 7, where we parked the scooters...

We saw some really steep cliffs on the way back...

And some wierd branches...

And another map, in english..

The lead us to a steep trail...

Wich nice view...

Anders was heading to the top...

Dont fall down!

It was a little bit foggy, but else, it was a perfect afternoon...

But in our mind we only thought about: "dont fall down, dont fall down"...

Time to head back...

After inspecting the cliffs on the ridge...very interesting formation...

Same path...

It was dark by the time we were back at the scooters...

We went back to taipei...Anders using his scooter, where he needs to take out the scooter keys when driving...since he might loos the keys...then he cant turn the scooter off...