Needle Hill with Brian

Brian came to HK for such a hiking on 13 March, As I had a machine buy off that I could not further conquer the Tai Mo Shan, We spent three hours for this Work out : Needle Hill, Grassy Hill, Lead Mine Pass back to Shing Mun Reserviour.  A good Hiking!

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Hiking to Lantao Island : Mt. Pheonix, Keung Shan and Tai O...

Yesterday was the 7th day of the Chinese New year 20 Feb 2010, traditionally, this is called "everyone's birthday" in the Lunar new year. A group 6 of us including one French and Singaporean went up the Lantao Trail early at 8:00 am. It was not too cold, a bit foggy and cloudy, it was a exceptional good weather for Hiking. We did approx. 16Km yesterday.

We stared at Tung Chung, took a but to Pak Kung Au whereby we could start the up hill to Pheonix after some warm up. ...After reaching the Peak of 934M, we went down for 30 mins, to the Great Buddha...took some meal and continued the 2nd half of the trail to Keung Shan, Man Cheung Po and ended at the Tai O road....
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Hong Kong Trail on the 3rd day of Chinese New Year

The Hong Kong Trail is 50KM long, on the third day of the Chinese New Year. we gathered at MTR HK Station and walked to the bus station at Exchange square, we took a No.15 bus to the Peak., The Peak stand 552M high, from where we started form the morning Trail , walked down to the Pok Fu Lam reserviour for 7Km, then 6 Km from Pok Fu Lam reserviour to Peel Rise. And then 6.5KM from Pok Fu Lam Reserviour to Chi Wan Gap. That trial was the first three of the total 8 second of the Hong Kong Trail, I had an injury on my knee since the last Trail Walker, and I could only make that 19KM in this time. The Temperature was about 10 Degrees and it was a very good weather for Hiking…

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Green Power 2009 and 2010

Green Power is an annual Hiking Charity evern in Spirng, Last year we have sent about 12 persons to join,
Bill had run as solo with a result of 7 hours something. This is a 50Km Hiking starting at the Victoria Peak and end at Shek O.

I am not sure my knee will be good to support me to run in this 2010 event on 6th Feb 2010 or not!?

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Hiking Team Basic Members

These gentlemen are the major Hiking supporters every week... Matthias went back to Germany with his wife Kuay Wan, Bill, after staying in Hong Kong for 11 years, received a new assignment to work in USA in 2010. Lawrence, who has been holding a record of 10th Participation of OTW without any drop out.
Fung is the youngest and has great potetial candidate to qualifed as Super OTW team member. Mem an Old HK Snob.... will strive for the best I can for coming years for OTW... My Longest time was 36 hour in 2000, and 22 Hour 14 mins in 2005.
This is an historical picture as most of the best Hiking Club member are gathered before we started the MacLehose stage 3 in a Summer of 2007.


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A Day Hiking to Tai O

We had a wonderful easy hiking to Tai O, an old Fishing village abd Stilt-houses.

Scenery is good, weather was good, not a tough hiking, good for whole family that you can spend a day there. Then , on the way back you can buy some of the famous produce such as The Shrimp paste and Salt Fish.

How to get there

Tai O Fishing Village, Lantau Island (Outlying Island)1. Catch ferry from Central Pier 6 (MTR Hong Kong Station Exit E1. Walk through ifc mall) to Mui Wo, then bus 1 to Tai O.2. MTR Tung Chung Station, then bus 11 from Tung Chung Town Centre.

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The Snake Peak

We had planned to crawl up the Snake Peak in 2008, after three trials, we succeeded at the last attempt. Due to the rains and typhoon, we had come to the middle of the hill and we were told to ourselves not to further moving up. The hill is scary as it is very steep and narrow.

Some part of trail can be hazardous that we had to force ourselves not to look downward.

Not Recommended for beginners.

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Pat Sin Leng

Designated in 1978, Pat Sin Leng Country Park covers 3,125 hectares of natural terrain in the Northeastern New Territories. Pat Sin Leng The Eight Fairies is a range of eight stately peaks, each commanding an imposing presence like the fairy in Chinese mythology. Other famous spurs within the park are Wong Leng, Ping Fung Shan, Cloudy Hill (Kau Lung Hang Shan) and Kwai Tau Leng.
These majestic uplands are set amidst emerald lakes. The picturesque Hok Tau Reservoir and Lau Shui Heung Reservoir are well known leisure destinations with a host of country park facilities. In addition to serene catchment plantations, there are lakeside barbecue areas, picnic areas and campsites. It is not a bad idea to use the campsite as a base, and explore the surrounding wild country at your leisure.
Experienced hikers can test their skills on Stage 9 and Stage 10 of the Wilson Trail, two challenging sections that traverse Pat Sin Leng Country Park. These routes travel along the ridges of Wong Leng, Lai Pek Shan and Pat Sin Leng. On fine days, the view at the top is simply arresting. For miles across, peaks roll and billow, their intense greens set against the glinting water of Plover Cove Reservoir. When the sky is clear, you can see the urban maze of Shenzhen in the distance. The conglomerate atop Pat Sin Leng is known as cap-rock, a well known rock formation in geology.

Those Pat Sin (8 Fairies ) are Shun Yeung, Chung Li, Lao Lao, Kuai Li, Tsao Kau, Choi Wo, Sheung Tsz, Hsien Ku.

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