Friday, June 27, 2014

Pingxi (平溪) Crags

I don't even know where to start. Today was awesome. So I guess I better just start getting into some photos.

After we all met up we took the metro and had awhile to hang out before the bus. So...naturally we went into the nearest convenience store with an A/C to hang out. We spent as much time there as we could, but it was pretty small so eventually we felt like we should leave. 


Secret club house!


Our bus driver was awesome! The road to the trails isn't actually even a bus stop and he totally stopped for us there! 

The bus ride was quite the windy adventure itself. 


Pingxi is famous for people going there to light off lanterns! We found them all over the place. Apparently you're supposed to write your wishes on them. This one is my favorite: 
Find a girlfriend in 2014! haha. 


Start of the hike! At the foot of the mountain. (We're all clean and full of energy!)


I can't even begin to describe how LEGIT this place was! This photo is before we even got to the really cool stuff!


Now is where it starts getting good. We knew there were three options to hike/climb the crags, so we decided to do rock, paper, scissors to decide which one to hike first!


Round 1 - Tony Loses


Round 2 - Yuan Yuan Loses


Ray is the champion!


So this is the path we would take. 


Up one of those "this trail is no longer in use" or whatever it is-type trails. haha. 



Lunch at the top. 



One of our next two stops. If you look close there are a ton of stairs. haha. 


Our next stop. 






To the top of another crag. 


The view from the third crag. 


For the hike down we could either choose to go with the normal route, or...an alternate route. Thankfully, Yuan Yuan said that we should of course take the other route! It turns out that...we ended up going on a trail that after a certain point wasn't a trail at all - which made it awesome!


Yay for forging your own trail!


It got kinda cray.. 

but don't worry, we all made it out alive! Tony felt especially grateful to have survived. As he pointed it, "這裡好滑" "It's really slippery here" 

His shoes looked really good but they were actually really bad. 

When we were nearing the bottom (or maybe halfway) we reconnected with the original trail and made it down!


After the hike we rewarded ourselves by cooling off in the river. It was sooooo nice. : )


Garlic and sausages? Yes please!



Pingxi! A very successful and fun day. 


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