Tai Mo Shan Hiking

Today, we started at Tai Mo Shan bottom walked up to top of the Mountain, then down hill to the small hut there are check Point 144. Whilst the rains poured for about 25 minutes, we could not wait and we walked to top of Tai Mo Shan and down hill back to where we started In the morning.It was a nice walk as it was not hot, but the rain might prevent us to run too fast down the hill, we completed this trail of about 13Km in 2 hours.

HK Snob

NeedleHill before the Tempest

Needle Hill is probably the most popular trail for me in the past 15 years, over 50 times up and down this Hill. It was a tropical warning Signal No. 1 yesterday and we had moved up to the top in 38 minutes! Slow... yes... because of the intense heat under the Sun. It was about 31 degrees yesterday in the morning, and once we walked down the hill on the other side, The sky grew darker and darker, we saw volume of leaves blwoing in front of the trail. and then rained not long later.. It was a heavy raning evening last night, and over night till now...

MacLehose Snob

Ngong Ping 360 Trail walking on a Hot Dragon Boat Festival

With numerous walks up the Ngong Ping 360 cable car maintenance trails. Today ‘s one can be one of toughest, as today Weather forecast is 32 degrees early in the morning.
The hottest Dragon Boat Festival day was 2007, recorded a temperature of 32.9 deg C. The next high temp. Was dated back 1980 and then 1961.
Well, I think today Temperature right at top of the Hill was far hotter than 32 Deg C, I did not have my Tissot Touch anymore, or it may shock me displaying a temperature of 34 deg C likely. We took quite some time to walk up the hill to Ngong Ping.
The last section of the trail was blocked for repair and we had to detour to another far more big up-hill trail before we could reach the Great Buddha at Ngong Ping, anyway it was a great hike! And I did use the pair Diamond Zero crane, it helped a lot, the New Meindl Stride proved to be one of the bets shoes I have used. Though it is the maiden Voyage trip for it, It did not feel hard not uncomfortable… The 300 years of Meindl Shoe making experience was nevertheless a respectful data in perfect the shoe.

Ngong Ping Snob