雪山台灣 Snow Mountain Taiwan Xueshan Trekking [GoPro]
Xueshan or Hsuehshan or Snow Mountain 雪山 a mountain in Heping District, Taichung, Taiwan. It is the second highest mountain in Taiwan and in East Asia, at 3,886 m (12,749 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Shei-Pa National Park and it is visible in good weather from hills near Taiwan's capital Taipei.
Xueshan is a part of the Sheipa National Park and so climbers are required to apply for a park entry permit. This can be done 7-30 days in advance. After that a police mountain entry permit must be applied for. This can be done at the police station in Wuling Farm on the spot.
There are two cabins on the trail. The first, Qika Cabin, is at the 2.0km mark. The second, 369 Cabin, is at the 6.9km mark. Both cabins are very basic containing bunker style beds. Hikers must bring their own sleeping and cooking gear.
The peak is at the 10.9km.
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Finally the climb is here! 8 of us travelling to our first ever Taiwan Snow Mountain climb. 3 couples including 2 guys.
We took a midnight scoot flight 0055hrs from Singapore to Taoyuan International Airport TR898, usually this flight would reach Tao Yuan international Airport at around 6am.
My friend had arranged for airport transfer to our hotel at Taipei Ximending, around 40 min without traffic. We were supposed to check in after 2pm, so we left our bags at Hotel Dairy of Ximen when we reached at around 7am.
The staff were friendly and we got our baggage tag. We crossed the road and had breakfast at a roadside stall and went to Taipei Train Station to have a simple walk around?
After walking around Taipei Train Station and checking out the new terminal (TaoYuan to Taipei) we made our way to Din Tai Fung 鼎泰豐 at Xinyi Road 信義路.
Everytime I'm in Taipei, I would come here. However I was shocked by the queue (3hours). In the end we ate at another Xiao Long Bao store.
We made our way to Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall 中正紀念堂. It was raining the whole morning. It was around 12 degrees, back home we are at 30 degrees (whole year). So it was rather cold.
After the short tour we went back to the hotel and had a afternoon nap.
Then it was dinner time. I think we had our dinner at Tian Wai Tian Ximending. After dinner, sang along to the tune of a street performer. We then went to seven eleven to stock up for the climb next day. Packed our bag and ready to start the climb.
Travel around 2 hours to reach Wuling Farm, 平等里武陵路 Heping District, Taichung City, Taiwan. We were so lucky that it was cherry blossom season. The cherry blossom was so scenic. Maybe it will be in the next video. Stay tuned. I was sleeping on the way up, therefore I did not capture any footage. I did captured some footage on our way down.
We started the climb at around 2pm. We reached Qika Cabin (2400m) before sunset and spent our night on the mountain. Our guide, Pirate, cooked dinner for us. It was a delicious dinner. It was around 2 degrees that night and we had the entire cabin to the 8 of us. If you guys did not climb any mountain before, the cabin does not have electricity. Everything has to be carried up, including gas and food.
Next day, we woke up before sunrise and made our way up to Xueshan Dong Feng (3201m), we made our descend from Dong feng to 369 cabin where we had the night. It was 0 degrees that night at 369 cabin. I was such a noob. It was my first time sleeping in 0 degree, haha, we had rented a wool sleeping bag and this was the 2nd night sleeping in it. I wore everything that I had and went to bed, guess what, I ended taking off layers and layers of clothing in the night as I was sweating. I only knew the next monrning that it was 0 degrees. LOL.
So far the trip was quite an easy trip. I was not as tough as expected. However the real toughness comes after Black forest. We had to wear claws on our hiking shoes to scale to the peak... This was really tough.
Video ends here, wait for the next video where you would see snow!
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Training 1:
Training 2:
Training 3:
Training 4:
Diary of Ximen:
Din Tai Fung:
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall:
Tian Wai Tian:
Wuling Farm:
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