An attempt to do Zhongyangjianshan
I joined my friend Cory to go to Zhongyangjianshan, one of my favorite mountains in taiwan. Since he works until 21-30-22.00 on friday nights, and starts at 08.00 on mondays we were in a rush ...the plan was that I will go on his motorcycle from Hsinchu, the 150km, to the trail entrance after his job...after lack of sleep we took off...
On the way form hsinchu I saw some expensive pistage nuts...I use to eat alot of these at my favorite "all you can eat" in banqiao...its intereting that they afford to offer these nuts at those restaurants...
I also bought some boots...since I was told that "i will need them":..they were originally made for scooter driving, not hikes...
Waiting at the HSR station in Taipei...Cory asked mt to meet him up in jhubei or at his place...
Here he is...
And our stuff...i was not sure what to bring...
But he bought 1 small bag and 1 big...I brought my stuff in a relatively small bag...
I had the big bag on my back the whole ride...
After half time...we stoped at an aboriginal toilet...in the moutain...
We arrived near the trail entrance around 4am...and planned to sleep some hours...we got delayed...and I saw the morgning bus, connectiong form taipei when we woke up...
Some locals were harvesting some cabbage...they started at the same time we arrived...
Its a long ride...taking us up to 2000 meters above sea level or something...
And there goes the bus...
After 2 hours sleep, we stopped at Nanshan, for some breakfast...
More City people, who will go hiking (in taiwanese way, meaning, travel to the mountain area, and walk around in a tourist park)...
Cory knew a secret shortcut, so save 2km to thetrail entrance...fromdoat 7...
We also stopped at a near by police station...but we dont need to "check in", as we needed before...nowadays, thats doable online...
Then re-arranging our stuff again...
And catching up on paople who started before us...we were pretty late...
Locals like snow...many people drive far to see this...
We wer told, 90% risk of rain...but we didnt see any for the whole weekend...
This is the entrance of the national park...we need to leave our paper in here...
Some view...
As usual...they ahve kilometer marks and 100-meter marks...at this mark ,someone left some gasoline...for some cabin further up...
And some marks, shows that it has mobile coverage...
Cory, this is his fifth time, he is on this "Nanhu trail"...
He enjoys some breaks...
Enjoying the view...
He has good equipment for the snow hikes...last year I did a mountain in the winter...but did barely see any snow...
Here we have to leave our "main trail"...since we are heading to a more rare mountain...Zhongyangjianshan...
It was tricky...
We had to walk down a long river...we even found river tracing boots...
But no distance meters....
It was confusing...however...once in a while...we saw some marks...similar to those I saw in nantou last year...
Omg...this looks like a traip...
I also cut my hand...cory had first aid...
...so the trip contined...
We arrived to the next hut...and it said "10.5"km to the one we plalned to stay at...
This hut was seldom visited...
We contined...since we were already late...
But it was confusing...since we didnt know how far we had left...and the sun will soon set...
And after some hour, we just has "5km" left...which was confusing...
Cory found a dead goat...is that a sign to not continue?
But we tried to follow the trail...
We decided, if we wont find any distance to the hut until 17.15...then we will stay at the other hut...
Once in a while it was hard to find the path...
I guess it was not far...but walking in the dark...when its snow. and water...felt wierd...
After another 30 minutes, we decided to return...to the other hut...apperently, we started to late, to make it until sunset...
We decided to try to trail in summer instead...and go to a nearby hotspring instead....
Heading back...
Besides...cory have to work in monday at 8 in the morning...it will be in a rush...maybe not that safe...
The hut had electricity...connected to some solar panels....
But they seemed to be broken...
Some also left food...
Its pretty sofisticated...
The cabin had many wholes...we installed the tent inside...cory heard mice inside and tried to put mosrt of the things in the tent...
The second day was a sunny day...
I wonder how they park administraion thinks..when they first say "10.5" and after some 2km says "5km"...its confusing...
This trail is famous for many river crossings...however, I could do thisone barefoot...
But I bought my boots "just in case"...
Else it was alot of ropes...
We could see the peak, it seemed nice...
And some village..maybe Nanshan...where we ate breakfast...
Nanhushan...als a very high mountain...
I liked this trail...it was not that exposed to the sun...these mountains belongs to Taroko national park...its pretty much on the east coast of taiwan...
Cory walking on the sun...
And some mountains...with snow...
The clouds were appraoching...maybe they will bring rain...
Not far to go now...
An emergency hut, not far from the Trail entrance...
This is where we had lunch yesterday...we can see xueshan, the second highest mountain in taiwan...
And back to the trail entrance...
Cory was a little tired...its always exhausting to climg mountains...since one needs to carry everything up and down...except water...which we drankf rom the river...
We drove directly to Nanshan, to see if I could take some bus to Yilan...else I have to go back on Corys motorcycle...
Many chartered buses from Taipei passed by...
With tourists buying cabbage...
And after some 30 minutes...my bus arrived...
Cory took of to Hsinchu...
In Loudong (Yilan), i couldnt find the train station...so I took a bus back to Taipei...no hotspring today...(it was probably too late)...we might do it next week...
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