Last Sunday, I took my first hike with the Hong Kong Trampers on their 14km hike to So Lo Pun Village (鎖羅盆). Despite thunderstorm warnings, I was quite excited about this trip, as I rearely get off Hong Kong Island, let alone go all the way up to New Territories.
While I won’t go into details about the hike, I would like to mention the fact that I never expected such grand (and relatively clean) rivers in Hong Kong, nor was I expecting such infectious mosquitoes (3 applications of “OFF!” and I still got around 10 mosquito bites -_-;)
You can find the (more detailed) walk report here (scroll down abit)
Flickr photostream here (yeah I still haven’t fixed the flicker embed yet!)
Total hiking time: 14k in under 5 hours, stopping once to get our rain gear out, once to eat lunch, and once for a beer by some remote store while cleaning the mud off our boots.
ps. I’m mildly surprised that I managed to keep up as they were hiking at crazy speeds due to some time constraints and even more surprised I wasn’t really tired the next day. Legs were sore for a few hours after I woke up, but were gone by lunch.
pps. Next time I’m bringing a snack.
A second hike with the Trampers « The Seven Summits Said:
on June 19, 2009 at 4:35 pm
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A second hike with the Trampers « Domomo Said:
on June 28, 2009 at 6:14 pm
[...] the exciting hike with the Trampers last week, I think I’ll join them on their Wong Lung Hang (黃龍坑) hike this Sunday. Only problem is [...]