Lost Soul Mountain Road walk alone Kee (June 12, 2004)
Speaking of Soul Mountain - 2303 meters above sea level in Beijing roof, I have already had the experience of the four summit. So I decided to backpack alone approached several climbing routes, the longest one - Soul Mountain Trail, I definitely did not think it would be 10 hours of barren hills and adventures start.
Trail begins at the southeast foot of the flooding port Lingshan Village, Village, an old man kindly cautioned me not a man up the hill, and said to give me hand-painted Zhang maps, I am pleased to take out a pen and paper and saw the elderly in the paper to the bottom of Gonggongzhengzheng write "Flood mouth", but also in the top Gonggongzhengzheng write to "peak" and then drew a straight line be connected, said: "You just have to go down this road, do not go to the left!" I had never seen such a map, and his head is fog, but still many thanks to go.
10:37: Since the flood I start start climbing along the canyon of stone on the road trip, has been accompanied by a stream about the way I am only one person, quiet unusual. I entered the mountains are scattered on the ground picking bifurcation branches for himself doing a alpenstock, one to do with the help of the second, anti-snake, viper Lingshan Beijing area, but the highest concentration of lies.
10:57: Stone Road, disappeared, and then forward it is a mountainous dirt road.
11:07: saw a small stone bridge, under the bridge there are pools, mountain hillside spiral from the beginning.
11:13: the road is the right test has a beautiful waterfall, depriving the trip, I wasted 5 minutes.
11:22: to leave the Canyon, boarded an open ground, two minutes after the left-hand side there is a shepherd to build a small stone.
11:30: encounter forks, and right-sided increase in the left than the level (seems to be leading to the abandoned farmland, over a period of time on this road disappeared), I go right-sided increase in.
11:39: has entered a broad valley basin, here the second shepherds hut, hut appeared again before the fork in the road, right for the waterway, a sharp rise, I observed a long time, chose to go for the lower left side of the road.
12:05: Zaiyu fork in the road, I go left (north-west direction).
12:11: Another fork in the road on the right of the road got into a larch forest, the entrance you can see a number of scattered wood, and I walked to the left about 10 minutes only to find road is gone, then found wide on the right into the pine trees should follow. In fact, the judge this time I was wrong.
Larch forest, as terraced layers of a general northward extension of I along the "terraces" edge of the path upstream.
12:33: Lunch.
12:47: Departure to continue upward.
12:55: We have found all three sides in front of ridge, and has nowhere to go, try to measure the intention to climb the ridge on the left, the plants are too dense, not delivered. Can only admit their mistakes, folding back the forks in the road just had.
13:15: Back to the fork in the road just to re-explore the other a fork in the road, discovered that, go forward for about 5 minutes left with an obvious path forks in the road, gradually overjoyed, thinking him a place on the broad road of.
I followed this path a headlong into the jungle, road very narrow, sometimes so completely overshadowed by the plant.
GPS navigation line on the north west direction of extension of the way, I have a gut feeling that something was amiss, the peak should be in floods mouth is northwest of the village, why this road is to the west over the north has decreased?
Even now, in retrospect, I am also quite sure in the end is the wrong Which fork in the road, I think this mystery is only left to the next and then probe the time to unlock the Soul Mountain Trail Bar.
13:40: through large tracts of dense forest, and finally on the one pass, you can take a breather
13:43: Arrival of a larger Yamaguchi, in front of the steep slope may be seen meandering through the 109 national highway, at the foot of a mountain of rubble waterway through corner.
Wrong is wrong, see the National Highway is by no means a good thing, it shows I've been around to a hillside near the junction of Hebei and Beijing, the general direction completely wrong.
However, the total has been rising along the way is not wrong, even though around a long road, walking can always lead to the peak.
So I continue to advance, is still in the jungle trail stretching.
14:18: arrival of a small piece of flat land in the forest, about two tents can be supported. From here you can see the peak of the north has large meadow, and the left side of the ridge to the summit of an extension of the right is a large expanse of the ravine. There are two forks in the road, I passed the peak of judgments should follow the direction of the left.
15:00: There is one obvious forks in the road, I walked up road turn left. Posterior to disappear soon, and the immediate left of the thick bush.
I am not sure, but only along the direction of the ridge to move forward.
Jungle in a very tough road, I have often been all over the shrubs and tree branches to hang, and sometimes people passed, but how are climbing pack, never had to remove the package to drag back after a period of trees. Within a short while, my arms on the left a Road bloodstain, physical declined dramatically.
16:03: I finally struggled out of the jungle, alpine meadow swept past the limitless expanse of the emergence of several threw a Lvpao tall peaks on the stands in front of me.
I know that even in those peaks above the main peak.
Lingshan the east, south and west side are another three people hold back about 50 degrees steep, and the sharp rise in height, it is wasting her strength. The more I up line, the greater the slope the mountain tops, the more intense.
17:40: I have reached a peak south of the nearest peak, only to find boulders here Qing Li, straight lines on the main peak was cut off a cliff to be around from here down to a gentler slope detour to pass through.
At the moment the thought of "down" word, I felt the feeling of despair.
Retracement of about 100 meters there is a flat saddle, appears to be a suitable camping place. I thought of lying in a warm tent eating hot noodles cook their own simply fascinated of.
At this time the sun is higher in the West very, I hesitated again, or her own packet.
Only by continuing to move forward is the right track.
18:15: through a narrow birch, I finally around to the western slope of the peak.
Lush alpine meadows shop ramp slopes in the broad spirit of Shanxi, in the sunset light up, has been show to the distant mountains along the foot of Man Shan flowers in full bloom in this vast green dotted in, attracting hordes of butterflies, in the fluttering in the wind dance. From time to time to have the plump pheasant by my startled, flutter Lengleng De dragging its tail flew go the distance.
Beautiful bar, but are in the meantime, will know that the meadow is the knee by a number of high and composed of shrubs, in the meantime Optional Road stumbled OK, is not how wonderful things.
I have countless number of times their rest, because it is only a few steps necessary to throwing himself crawling on the ground breathing for a while.
Later, I was finally allowed to gaze longingly to a peak poking visitors looked on.
Seen again after 8 hours later, the feeling of living, nice.
19:05: sky dusk, when I finally boarded the main peak, saw the piece read, "Soul Mountain peak, elevation 2303 meters," the stone.
At this time the peak tourist has been dissipated, down only when I encountered a number of riding up the hill to see sunset guests.
Soul Mountain northern slope of stone steps covered with neat roads, slopes very soothing, as if to grassland.
I know that just need to follow this path pretty soon, to the river Kawamura Lingshan parking lot, you can return to earth of.
20:30: I have reached the parking lot.
Even if the sky is already dark, there is still a large number of tourists walking in the street, countless barbecue restaurant hotbed of activity.
I was in front of a shop and bought some water, incidentally, by other people's courtyard bar at the camp, and then finally eat his own hand-cooked hot noodles, fragrant ah.
The next day morning, I dug out the GPS on the track a look, can not help laughing, I am from the south-east of the mountains Lingshan, because lost around to the southwest and eventually reach the summit from the west slope, and from the northeast down the mountain.
Where is my mountain climbing, mountain Well obviously that is transferred.
Acoustic Guitar June 15, 2004
Author: houlixin
