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A 1 day trip to Jiaminghu (Jiaming lake)

I started some year ago to claim that theres no mountainin Taiwan, you cannot do as a 1 day hike...

...you just carry less luggage...

This is the trailmap of jiaming lake trail in Taidong country, on raod 20...that goes between Guanshan and Jiayi...(its broken now, but will open again in august 2014)...the road distansce is 153km, on the road...

From the trail entrance it is about 13km...

06.30:ish i started..

And first I had to pass by a forrest recreation area...these are very common in taiwan...

They had some wodden signs and some new green signs, telling the diestance...

And some climbing club also put up red ribbons..

It was an easy road...

And signs informtion on which mountians one could see...

This is very south...so not all mountains are high...

After some hour, I reached the first cabin, where I met many kids and some old people, who just woke up, ready to head to the second cabin...

Since I chose ot to carry heavy load, I was much faster...

There were many old pathes...sometimes I ofund these arrows, that made it easier not to walk wrong...

The path was now mostly stones...

And not that much trees...

Some times the trail split, but someone marked if the direction was wrong...

And it was sunny...which i guess is common in the mornings...

After some kilometers...the path was on a ridge...pretty easy...

Half way...as long as the trail was on the south side of the ridge it was a walkin the park...

2 hours spent after half distance...thats positive...

On the north pat of the ridge...it was more windy...and some snow...

some times the trail passed by some mountains...but I was only heading for the lake...

Nice view...in the clouds...

...also some times down hill...

I was wearing my 30 second camera...if i disapear...the one who find me, can follow my last minutes alive...(i often hear about mysterious stroes, when people disapear)...

The second cabin...or many cabins...

And a high altitude toilet...

This part of taiwan have the Bunun aboriginals, this rangers name is Wasabi...something...Bununs are famous for their archery...

They also put up many tents...in case many people chose to stay here...

There were 2 rangers living there...they never checked my permit...

Omg...im getting closer...

...once in a while, I stopped to read some information signs...

Omg, clods coming from the north...there parts where there is a slope on the ridge...the wind is pretty strong...

Omg...some deer or other wild animal...I heard they even have bears here...

The path was a little deep, hindering the snow from melting...

Another place where the path splits...

And after a while the fog started...

1 kilometer left...

I was continously eating my M&M´s...its a tradition...when climbing mountains...

300 meters left...

Some where donw there...

And another trail 14.3 kilometers ro another mountain...i think...

just like in Dabajianshan...they had a helicopter area...

There...finally...

10.35, it means it took about 4 hours...it was acctually what i predicted...

The lake could be bigger...on wikipedia it said that it was 6 meters deep and 120meters long...

Selfie 1...

I guess if if rains more...it gets deeper...

I couldnt find any sign with information about the lake...but I heard that some meteorit impact created the lake...

I also heard that some air plan crashed here long time ago...I wonder where...

Here is the the water goes down from the hill...

But theres no place where the water leaves...I assume its not that fresh to drink...

6 meters deep! thats scary...I should have brought a rubber duck...taiwanese people seems to like that...

(Selfie 2)..

The path becomes a creek, when it rains...

Luckily the fogg disapeared when I was at the lake...

So that I could see the south mountains...(probably the southest mountain over 3000 meters high...

Anyway...time to go back...

And then the fog started again...

...some wierd white rocks...

I didnt have a compass, but it would be fun to know, in which direction things were at...

Omg...litter...I read an aticle about that it will be prohibited to smokein national parks...I wonder if any one wil care...

The wind was still strong at the north ridge...

Some people made "less slippery grip" on the roots on the path...

Back to the second cabin...

They asked if more people were coming, and I told them about the kids...walking fromthe first cabin...

Some garbage in the bushes...

And the kids...some were practicing to walk with crampons in the snow...

It was pretty windy here...

And the kids all took a res in the wind...just like 2010 when i went to hehuanshan...I was stunned that people take a rest in the shade, or in the wind...instead of the sun, and where its no wind...i guess its different logic...