Needle Hill Hiking

This is the first Hiking afetr two weeks of rest due to limited time available for me in the past two weeks.
Since I worn Icebug Heors., I cpould run down the Needle hill in less than 3 minutes. and About 2 minutes from Gassy Hill top to the Lead mine pass. That was a good result. I will wear this Great Hiking Shoes for Trail Walker this year.

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Icebug Heros, Probably the best Hiking Shoes for me

I have tested the new Icebug Heros, I felt that is the best Hiking shoes That I have been tried in the past ten years, Merrel, Montrail, Timberland, Nike, even the last Menidl!
Why, because it I extremely light, flexible and comfort.
The supporting sole material is very sot, I have used it for 9 KM yesterday running up Needle hill, it worn off about 2 mm at the aft of the shoes!

So I think this shoe can last only about 200mm maximum.

With this super light shoe, I Could run down the Needle hill in just less than 3 mins.

That was almost reaching my best record, and I felt having full confidence in doing so.

If you ask me what is the best Hiking shoes, I can rank this as Number One.
Icebug Heros 98 Pints Flexibility 9/10, Comfort 10/10, Durability 7/10 price 7/10.
Meindl Ventilator 7000 96 points Flexibility 8/10, Comfort 9/10, Durability 8/10 Price 6/10.

Montrail Masai 94 Point Flexibility 9/10, Comfort 8/10, Durability 9/10 price 8/10.
If I were asked what is the best Hiking shoe for Trailwalker ignoring the durability and Price I highly Recommend this Heros. buy one more pair for my alternate training. After run in, keep one pair as the Hiking shoes for Trailwalker this year.
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The Heros, a new Running shoes from Icebug Sweden

This is a new technology era. A pair of shoes can tell their technology once you put it on your feet, and walk..

This is a new attempt for new Brand name as The Meindle Ventilator 7000 is no longer hs stock at protek Shop. Why not try this Heros designed by Icebug Sweden?
Icebug is an independent Swedish footwear company that started challenging the giant brands in 2001.

The Heros is Soft, light, comfortable shoe with durable upper materials that don’t absorb water. The sole pattern is developed to give good grip on hard as well as on soft surfaces.

Functions well for running on trails and roads. Their mix of running through marshes and on trails and roads during peaceful, long spells that are kind to the body is the kind of workout Heros loves to reward ….

I speculate that its is not as durable as the Meindle Ventilator 7000 as the material of the sole is soft.
Their Technology is BUGrip.
BUGrip® is the name of Icebug’s grip technology. A BUGrip sole is made of a special rubber compound and has 15-16 integrated steel studs (see the attached sketch). The design of the studs together with the properties of the rubber compound give these studs a dynamic function. The studs work independently from each other and are not completely fixed. When weight is applied the studs push in toward the surface of the sole. How far they are pushed in, depends on the pressure exerted by the user and the resistance from the ground.
Keep using it in trail but not indoor as the studs may damage your floor.
Price is HKD$1,140 less 20% if you are VIP member at Protek.
I guess that The shoes can last about 200KM... whereas the Ventilator 7000 had lasted 320KM.

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Hiking to Pat Sin Leng (Eight Fairies)

This is Sha Tau Jiao of China at the distant background.

We had a tought work out today as we walked up Kowloong Hang, Sha Lou Tung, Hok Tou, then moved up the Tough Pat Sin Leng, We took 4 hours to complete the trail under a temperature of 28 Deg C.
I did not apply and sun block, now I became a Roasted Pig.. I am applying Aloe Vera Gel sparingly to soothe my burnt skin.
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Hiking up to Ngong Ping 360 on Third ay of the year of Rabbit

Question to me on why I lad like to go Hiking in Lantao every week, simply because the trial is beautiful and I find new interests and reason to go every week.
This is the third day of Lunar year Rabbit , Saturday, we had just two members to come as many of them are not available. A few of other members joined the HK Trail 50KM.
We had walked up the Cable Trail and then walk down to Shek Mun Gap then Tung Chung, using three hours. Weather was good, 20 degrees, dry. I had recovered from Cold and that is the first time to step out my place since the Chinese New Year eve.
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18th Green Power 50KM Hiking on 29 Jan 2011.

Annual Green Power Hiking evening is usually held in the last Saturday of the January, I used to participate and do remember that I had a team hiking wit Bill; we got team result of 13th ranked. That was not a bad result but that was history, Bill went back US.

This trail starting from the Peak going mostly downward and there is still some ups; the finish point is Big Wave Bay. It takes normally 6-8 hours as an amateur player; less than 4 hours for the professionals.
The fastest record is 3 hour 41 mins. this year, and the faster record ever was 03’39”22 ('10) held by male Davies William.
This year, we had talked about for relaxed Hiking; we had a team of 6 persons to do it on a morning 10 degrees … The Weather was excellent for hiking, and along the way we could see a lot nice and elegant homes in the peak. The last picture shows the the big house of the Macao Gambling Tycoon Mr. Ho.

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The Wind carried us down hill when we moved up Mount Phoenix

This is an interesting experience as we could not move up further for sake of safety. As the Wind was pushing us leeward to the cliff of the hill at a speed of 45KM!, after we had managed to claw up 1/3 of the trail up, we decided to moved down hill back to the place where we started.
The temperature was 14 Deg at bottom and 8 degrees at 1/3 of trail, the temperature may be just about 3 degrees at hill top… Temperature is not an issue but the Gale!
We will try next week again!
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Hiking from Wong Lung Hang, Sunset Hill to Pak Kung Au in awesome Weather

Chek Lap Kok Village where we passed by before going to the starting point of the Wang Lung Hang Trail

It was 12.3 degree, and I was trying to Practice my Chi Kung.

We came to this trail again as we had not feeling very much enough training before our next challenge to the Mt. Phoenix. We clawed up the Wong Lung Hang in 1 hour 10 minutes and down hill in 25 minutes.
Our Next Target is to complete up and down hill in 1 hour 15 minutes.

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Ngong Ping 360 Trail Walk on 1 Jan 2011

This is the hiking we decided to take at last minute whilst we were heading to Wong Lung Hang this monring as it was too cold to go for Wong Lung Hang. My excuses!
Ngong Ping 360 was new to one of our team mates today, so we made up our mind to turn to the path leading to Ngong Ping 360. There is milestone marker indicators to tell where you are in every 2 metres.
Starting form C00-01 to C30. The length of the trail is about 6.8 KM devided into 30 portion so each CXX number indicates approximately 220 Meters.
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