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Pashan: Pingxi Trails
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Hiking the Mountains, Valleys, Rivers and Jungles of Taiwan. Friday, August 22, 2008. Twenty km east of my home in Muzha rests the town of Pingxi, a former coal mining settlement along the Pingxi Small Rail Line. The rail line, one of several small gauge lines kept open for tourism, runs through a lovely wooded gorge and one day Pashan and co plan to walk the 16km of track after the last train has left for Taipei around 6.40pm. Which we climbed last year. And then there are the Pingxi Crags. One of the b...
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Pashan: Wantan River Valley
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Hiking the Mountains, Valleys, Rivers and Jungles of Taiwan. Monday, July 14, 2008. Posting has been light of late as I've been in China (Hainan Island and Qinghai) for the past two months on LP work. I had hoped to make a few posts while I was away but for some very odd reason the Great Firewall of China had my blog blocked. Too subversive I suppose. Should call it hiking the mountains, valleys, rivers and jungles of the renegade province. I'll let the pictures do the talking:. Later in the afternoon we...
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Pashan: Return to Nanao: the Biyahao Historic Trail
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Hiking the Mountains, Valleys, Rivers and Jungles of Taiwan. Saturday, December 20, 2008. Return to Nanao: the Biyahao Historic Trail. You live here long enough and the whispers of the past start to rise to a conversation. Cuts through the forest became trade routes, sites of major battles, and forced resettlements of the native populations by Qing, Japanese and Guomingdang colonizers. And you start to make connections. Those who recall my blog on the Batongguan trail will know that work on that trail be...
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Pashan: Snow Mountain (Xueshan, 雪山)
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Hiking the Mountains, Valleys, Rivers and Jungles of Taiwan. Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Snow Mountain (Xueshan, 雪山). While I have climbed Snow again as part of a longer route (across the glorious Holy Ridge), this is the only time I have done the standard three day hike to the main peak and back. After breakfast in a nearby hotel, we drove 5km or so up to the ranger station at the start of the trail to Snow Mountain. MISTAKE. In addition to a national park permit, hikers need to check in at the poli...After...
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Pashan: The Hapen Trail: Wulai
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Hiking the Mountains, Valleys, Rivers and Jungles of Taiwan. Friday, February 15, 2008. The Hapen Trail: Wulai. Blogging has been light in recent months for a very good reason. After the last outing in Sanmin I came down with a tick-borne disease called scrub typhus. Patients most commonly present with high fever, severe headache, generalized myalgia, and malaise. The incubation period from the mite bite is 5-20 days following inoculation. There were about 60 cases of tsustugamuchi in the last year in Ta...
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Pashan: Beidawushan 北大武山: The Ship of the South
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Hiking the Mountains, Valleys, Rivers and Jungles of Taiwan. Friday, March 6, 2009. Beidawushan 北大武山: The Ship of the South. For some time, my weekend hiking partners have been asking me to arrange an overnight hike with them; preferably in the high mountains. I had many options in mind, but when I read a report of my friend Stephen's hike up Beidawushan. I knew I had my destination. Though we had been promised sunshine, we began in the fog. Monstrous vegetation hemmed us in. After four hours of hiking w...
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Pashan: The Holy Ridge (雪山聖稜線): Days 1-2
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Hiking the Mountains, Valleys, Rivers and Jungles of Taiwan. Saturday, October 24, 2009. The Holy Ridge (雪山聖稜線): Days 1-2. Behold this Holy Ridge! Wrote Japanese climber Numai Tetsutaro in 1928. "Who can fully accomplish this climb from Dabajianshan to Syue Mountain? Who can be crowned with the laurel of victory and be the first to tell of the truth and beauty of the journey? The simple map below shows the basic route we took in August 2008. You'll notice we didn't reach Dabajianshan (Mt Tapa on the ...
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Pashan: Nan-ao River Trace
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Hiking the Mountains, Valleys, Rivers and Jungles of Taiwan. Tuesday, November 4, 2008. It's raining hard outside my window, and the patter of drops on my awning has put me in a nice mellow mood. Rain reminds me of home, Vancouver, and since Vancouver reminds me of hiking it's time for the latest installment of Pashan. The subtitle of Pashan is: hiking the mountains, valleys, rivers and jungles of Taiwan. I haven't had a good river tracing entry since last year's 5 day walk up the Namasiya River. Eventua...
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Pashan: The Yellow Butterfly Valley 黃蝶翠谷
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Hiking the Mountains, Valleys, Rivers and Jungles of Taiwan. Saturday, May 23, 2009. The Yellow Butterfly Valley 黃蝶翠谷. As for the butterflies, well, they actually have a more recent history. At least in part. During Japanese times, the valley northeast of Meinong was planted with Hophornbeam tree. The wood of this tree is exceptionally hard and makes for durable. It was a little early in the season on Monday, but when we parked out car and started walking down the narrow pitch, we began to see butterflie...
