Hiking from Wong Lung Hang, sunset hill and Pak Kung Au

The weather today was cloudy, 17 degree Celsius, foggy on top of Sun Set Hill.
It was not too cold, dry and cloudy, an exceptional good weather for Hiking.

We took 1 hour 10 minutes going up Wong Lung Hang, and 16 minutes to go from Sun Set Hill down to Pak Kung Au. This is a nice record for me. At least I provide a record that has certain room for further improvement. Today's team mates are George and Lawrence.

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Hiking up Wong Lung Hang to Sun Set Hill of Lantao Island

Wong Lung Hang is classified one of the toughest Path up Hill in Hong Kong,
It is situated approx 3 km away from Tung Chung MTR station. There is approximately

1,900 steps up hill. It is tough because of the step is tall like 1.2 foot. Up there we can turn right to the Sunset hill and then jumped down to Pak Kung Au within 20 minutes. The weather is cloudy at about 16 degrees C whilst we were in the mountain. We took this challenge this morning, we started at 0800 and finished at Pak Kung Au at 1030. We will go again with a target completion of 2 hours next week!

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10th Participation in Oxfam Trail Walker

This is my 10th Participation for Trail walker, for every year, we had to thumb a index pin on this week on the calendar as one of the most event in the Whole year.

Due to my job is busy and there is not much time is allocated for enough practice regularly. So I had also questioned on myself. “Are you ready for this year?”
Finally, we had a series of heavier exercise on of the week ends for the last few weeks,
We had managed to complete in 34 hours, as two of our members had leg injuries and we could not walk fast at all. But we achieved the pre-set target: "to complete 100KM!"
The Weather is good this year,  a bit sunshine with temperature ranges between 11 Degrees at night at Beacon Hill to approximately 28 degrees at Sai Shan noon time on 19 Nov.

Let’s plan for another result in 2011.
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Hiking into Superstition Mountains in Arizona

At Arizona, we climbed the mountain called “The Superstition Mountain”. Overall trail 5.6miles, took us 4 hours to complete. Temperature Lower 46F and higher 76F, just nice for the hiking.
It’s type of sand desert and rocky mountain. Challenging even going up and decent. Is totally different style of mountain from terrain, where this is all rock and stone. On top of the mountain, we could see the entire Phoenix city and nearby mountains.
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Cyclying Challenge to the Snake Peak

Note the Left hill top on the last picture is the Snake Peak! See how Steep it is!

Snake Peak is notorious for his steep and rocky up hill that we have to use hands to crawl up.. And Down hill is even more scary!! However we have seen some Cyclists ran down like a dart down hill Snake Peak... We watched our eyes widely opened!! That can be hazardous..... and one of them was a lady!! 

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A Convenient Training Trail for Stamia in N.T.

Foo Yung Shan is a low profile hill behind Tsuen Wan Discovery Park... It has a 866 steps up the first portion of the hill then follow the water catchment path for another 300m., there is another up step staircases for another 700 steps up to the Tai Mo Shan Country Park... In Fact the path would lead to the Shing Mun Reserviour then up hill Tai Mo Shan...if you continue to walk on.
We had three times walking up/down the two hill today... so that is (866+700)X2x3= 9,396 steps in 3 hour and 30 minutes.
Attached the pictures I took along the path... note that there is a team of man's best friend waiting to taste my porky thighs when I proceed to the end of the trail. At last I managed to escape this tragedy...walking back home. The other chap would persue another 3 times of the up/down hill. K. Y. is a Pro-Super-Trail-Walker!!
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The Most Beautiful Trail in Hong Kong (MacLehose Stage No.2-3)

This is a tough walk for me as I had a cold and I felt I lost 30% of my power when I walked up the Sai Shan under temperature of 30 degrees. Though this is Mid Autumn, it is still hot. I used 4 hours to complete the stage 2 which I normally use 3 hours. Well, One interesting reward is that we meet over a few hundred people walking along with us.. Probably this is the first day of the long China National Day vacation. Also we do met many French, Mainland Chinese, and Japanese... hope everyone got a good work out along this most Beautiful Trail of Hong Kong.

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